JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Outside of the mayor's race, the highest profile political battle to watch Tuesday is the race to see who will become the next sheriff of Jacksonville.
The sheriff's race was truly up in the air three weeks ago with seven candidates vying for votes, according to a poll released on March 5 by the University of North Florida.
The poll showed Ken Jefferson leading the pack with 24 percent, followed by Mike Williams with 16 percent, Jimmy Holderfield with 10 percent and Jay Farhat with 7 percent. Tony Cummings and Rob Schoonover each accounted for 4 percent and Lonnie McDonald had 2 percent of the votes.
Still, 34 percent of those polled were undecided or declined to answer, leaving the spot previously held by John Rutherford up for grabs.
You can follow along on our interactive graphic above to see real-time election results above.
We sent 5 questions concerning important local issues to each of the candidates.
Their responses of the candidates who responded can be viewed in the stories below:
The top-two vote getters will run against each other again on May 19 for the office of sheriff, that is unless the leading vote getter on Tuesday receives 50 percent, plus one vote. Then that candidate would be named sheriff.
