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WILKES-BARRE — Tuesday’s primary should see a larger turnout than non-presidential years as voters cast their ballots for their presidential candidate of choice and several other key races.

On the Republican ticket, only three of the six candidates listed on Pennsylvania’s ballot are still in the race — Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and John Kasich — but Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and Ben Carson also appear.

On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are the clear front runners, but Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente is also on the ballot.

Voters will also choose delegates to the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, to be held in July — the Republican event in Cleveland July 18-21 and the Democratic gathering in Philadelphia, July 25-28.

There are key statewide races as well.

Democrats will select a candidate to take on Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey in the November General Election. Katie McGinty, Joe Sestak, John Fetterman and Joseph Vodvarka are on the ballot.

McGinty, 52, of Chester County, served as chief of staff for Gov. Tom Wolf after having lost in the Democratic primary to Wolf in the governor’s race.

Sestak, 64, of Delaware County, is a retired Vice Admiral in the U.S. Navy, and served as the U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania’s 7th District from 2007 to 2011. He lost to Toomey in 2010.

Fetterman, 46, is the mayor of Braddock Borough and holds a Master’s of Business Administration from Harvard University.

The state Supreme Court last week reversed a lower court and ordered Vodvarka, a semi-retired spring manufacturing shop owner, back onto Pennsylvania’s primary ballot. Vodvarka ran in 2012 and lost to Sen. Bob Casey.

A new state Attorney General will also be decided this year, since Democratic incumbent Kathleen Kane decided to not seek re-election. She is facing perjury and obstruction charges and her trial is scheduled for August.

On the Democratic ballot will be John Morganelli, Stephen Zappala and Josh Shapiro. On the Republican side, Sen. John Rafferty is running against Joe Peters.

Other races and candidates:

State Auditor General: Eugene A. DePasquale, Democrat incumbent; John Brown, Republican; both unopposed for their party nominations.

State Treasurer: Joe Torsella, Democrat; Otto Voit, Republican; both unopposed.

11th Congressional District: Lou Barletta, incumbent Republican; Mike Marsicano, Democrat; both unopposed.

17th Congressional District: Matt Cartwright, incumbent Democrat, unopposed; Glenn Geissinger, Matt Connolly, Republicans.

There are several state representative races locally – the 116th, 117th, 118th, 119th, 120th and 121st Legislative Districts — but there, none of the candidates of either party are opposed in those races.

By Bill O’Boyle

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