Voters will have a choice in four of seven local races come Nov. 6.

Tuesday was the deadline for local candidates to submit petitions to appear on the ballot in the fall.

Leroy Bennett, Arthur Bredemeyer and Linda T. Johnson will compete for the mayor’s seat.

Bennett is the current Nansemond Borough representative who was drawn out of the borough during the redistricting process. He has been on City Council since 1996 and served as vice mayor from 2002 to 2006. He also previously served on the Industrial Development Authority and on the Suffolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority Board of Commissioners. He is retired from Newport News Shipbuilding.

Bredemeyer is a local attorney of the firm Eure and Bredemeyer PLLC. He serves on the Craney Island Commission and the Hampton Roads Sanitation District Commission, and was formerly on the Suffolk Airport Commission.

Johnson, the incumbent in the mayoral race, was first elected to City Council in 2000. She represented the Sleepy Hole Borough for two terms and become Suffolk’s first female mayor in July 2006. She also became Suffolk’s first directly elected mayor in 2008. She is a real estate agent with Prudential Towne Realty.

In the races for the Nansemond, Sleepy Hole and Whaleyville boroughs, there are between one to three options, depending on where you live.

Curtis Milteer Sr., the incumbent in the Whaleyville Borough, is unopposed in his bid for a ninth term in the office.

In the Nansemond Borough, one-term incumbent and attorney Robert Barclay will face a challenge from Nansemond-Suffolk branch NAACP President Lue Ward, who was a vocal opponent of the city’s redistricting plan that recently received pre-clearance from the U.S. Department of Justice.

That plan changed the name of the former Sleepy Hole Borough to Nansemond.

In the Sleepy Hole Borough, formerly the Nansemond Borough from which Bennett was ousted, three new faces are running. They are Kevin Alston, Raymond Batton and Roger Fawcett.

In the School Board races, only one borough has a contest. Incumbent Phyllis Byrum of the Whaleyville Borough will face a challenge from Marion Flood.

Diane Foster will run uncontested to keep her Sleepy Hole seat. She was drawn out of the former Sleepy Hole Borough and into the former Nansemond Borough, but after the name change she remains in the Sleepy Hole Borough.

In the Nansemond Borough, Judith Brooks-Buck filed to run. Her petitions were the only ones election officials still were checking on Tuesday night. All the others were cleared pending verification by the State Board of Elections.