Voters in Carbon, Schuylkill, Monroe and Lehigh counties will have their say at the polls Tuesday when Pennsylvania holds General Election 2014, highlighted by the spirited campaign for the commonwealth's governor's position.

Voters in three of those counties (Carbon, Schuylkill and Monroe) will also have a choice in who will represent them in Washington, as there is a two-person competition for the 17th Congressional District seat that stretches across three counties in the Times News coverage area.The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. in all of the voting districts in the state, including 51 districts in Carbon County, 125 precincts in Schuylkill County and 50 districts in Monroe County.The results in each county will be part of statewide balloting in the race between Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, a Republican running for re-election to a second four-year term, and Democratic challenger Tom Wolf, former Pennsylvania secretary of revenue.Meanwhile, the 17th Congressional District race is between the incumbent Matt Cartwright, a Democrat from Plains who won the seat two years ago from former Rep. Tim Holden of Schuylkill County, and Republican David J. Moylan of Auburn, the current Schuylkill County coroner. A two-year term is at stake.All of Schuylkill County is in the district, which also includes parts of Carbon County, including the townships of East Penn, Franklin, Lower Towamensing, Mahoning and Towamensing and the boroughs of Bowmanstown, Jim Thorpe, Lansford, Lehighton, Nesquehoning, Palmerton, Parryville, Summit Hill and Weissport.In Monroe County, voters in the townships of Chestnuthill, Coolbaugh, Eldred, Hamilton, Middle Smithfield, Polk, Ross, Smithfield, Stroud (districts one, five, six and seven), Tobyhanna and Tunkhannock, as well as Delaware Water Gap, will choose between Cartwright and Moylan.The district also includes the sections of the city of Bethlehem, the city of Easton, the townships of Bethlehem, Forks, Lower Mount Bethel, Palmer, Plainfield District Delabole, Upper Mount Bethel, Upper Nazareth District East and Washington and the boroughs of Bangor, East Bangor, Freemansburg, Glendon, Nazareth, Pen Argyl, Portland, Roseto, Stockertown, Tatamy, West Easton, Wilson and Wind Gap.Parts of Luzerne and Lackawanna counties are also included in the 17th District.Meanwhile, numerous races exist in the Times News coverage area for positions in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Senate, as well as for the U.S. House of Representatives.The state districts were redesigned last year by the Legislative Reapportionment Commission and approved by the state Supreme Court, whereas the boundaries of Pennsylvania's 18 congressional districts were redrawn by the state Legislature.Following the 2010 census, many of those districts were redesigned, some having changed considerably.In order to better inform our readers of the various positions on tomorrow's ballot, pre-election coverage in today's Times News details the candidates and districts in each of the four counties in our coverage area.