Benjamin Sykes Sturdivant of Glendora has filed qualifying papers to seek re-election to the office of commissioner of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee Board.
Sturdivant filed as a Democrat, according to documents on file Tuesday at the circuit clerk’s office in Charleston.
The YMD Levee District’s mission is to erect and maintain a system of levees to protect the Delta from high waters of the Mississippi River and interior streams.
The levee board has two members from Coahoma and Tunica counties and one member from DeSoto, Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore, Quitman, Sunflower, Tallahatchie and Yazoo counties.
The party primary election for the levee board will be Tuesday, March 10 — the date of the presidential party primary elections.
In addition to the levee board and presidential contests, the 2020 elections will feature races for U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, justices of the Mississippi Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, the five seats of the Tallahatchie County Election Commission and school board posts in Education District 5 (a position on the West Tallahatchie School District Board of Trustees) and Education District 10 (a spot on the East Tallahatchie School District Board of Trustees).
The qualifying period for all except school board candidates is underway.
March 2 is the deadline for judicial candidates and 5 p.m. on June 1 is the deadline for election commissioner.
School board qualifying will begin Aug. 5. The filing deadline is Sept. 4.
This year’s general election will be Nov. 3.
