Republican voters in Carbon County who go to the polls on Tuesday, will have a choice for who will represent the county on the GOP state committee.

The party’s bylaws call for one woman and one man from the county to hold the positions. Voting is done on an at-large basis and includes all 51 election districts in the county.

The candidates for the state committee are Rochelle Pasquariello of East Penn Township and Rebecca Hassenbein of Penn Forest Township.

The male candidate who is unopposed is Darin Dotter of East Penn Township.

Meanwhile, in this state and federal election, each party elects local committeemen and committeemen to represent their municipalities on the county Republican committee. The county bylaws have a designated number of positions in each municipality.

Contested races

This time around, four municipalities have contested races for county committee positions:

East Penn Township: Six people running for five positions, James Dorward, Timm Berger, Kathy Henderson, Darin Dotter, Rochelle Pasquariello and Lee Becker.

Franklin Township: Nine people are running for seven positions, Ty Poole, Stacey Kuklentz, Tyler Poole, Katie Kokinda, Jacob Frey, Brandy Frey, Jeff Kuklentz, Fred Rodger Kemmerle Jr. and Elizabeth M. Blose.

Lower Towamensing Township: Seven people seeking four positions: Doyle Heffley, Earl Paules, Chris Allen, Christine Allen, Jean A. Papay, Kenneth W. Sutton and Kellie Heffley.

Palmerton:Bowmanstown (elect 2) – Michael P. Beishline.

Jim ThorpeLehightonMahoning Township (elect 6) – Larry K. Heffley, David Yeakel, Shellylee Yeakel, Montana Confer and Wallace Putkowski.

Penn Forest Township (elect 16) – James Nelson, Christian Bartulovich, Vincent Prete, Janet Nelson, Rebecca Hassenbein, Melanie J. Prete, Kayla Semmel, Robert Salerno, Brandon Bell, James Denier and Richard Hoffman.

Summit Hill (elect 4) – Bryan Smith, Alicia Kupec and John Kupec.

Towamensing Township (elect 4) – Frank A. Latsch and David Severino.

Weatherly (elect 2) - April Hauser.

No candidates

Elsewhere, there are no candidates in the following municipalities (number of positions to be filled in parentheses): Banks Township (2), Beaver Meadows (2), East Side (2), Kidder Township (2), Lansford (4), Lausanne Township (2), Lehigh Township (2), Nesquehoning (4), Packer Township (2), Parryville (2) and Weissport (2).