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Jacksonville mayoral candidates locked in for wide open race

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry cannot run for reelection because of term limits.
Shannon Leduke
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WJCT News
Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry cannot run for reelection because of term limits.

The field of candidates is set for Duval County voters to choose from in the spring election for Jacksonville mayor with four Republicans, two Democrats and an independent qualifying to have their names on the March ballot.

Term limits prevent Mayor Lenny Curry, a Republican, from running again as he completes his second two-year term. Public opinion polls have shown a large chunk of the electorate is undecided, making it a wide-open race.

All the candidates who officially qualified this week for the spring election had already filed as candidates so no one emerged as a last-minute addition to the field.

Read the rest of this story at the Florida Times-Union, a WJCT News partner.