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Mayor John Dailey increased his overall fundraising to $342,734, the highest of all the local candidates.

Kristin Dozier collected more than $12,000 in the three days following her close win in the mayors race.

With a recount in one county commission race now resolved, the field is set for Leon County and City of Tallahassee offices in November. Christian Caban edged out Lynda Bell to make the runoff for Leon County Commission District 2. He will face Hannah Crow in the general election. Caban is one of more than a dozen new names that jumped into local politics this year. Yet as the dust settled, most of the area’s incumbents secured their re-election during the primary.

The tight race shows David O’Keefe led the pack with 27.23% of the votes, followed by Paula DeBoles-Johnson with 25.71%

Check out all our journalists stories from primary election night.

David O’Keefe and Paula DeBoles-Johnson will face off in November for County Commission District 5—the seat currently held by mayoral candidate Kristin Dozier. O’Keefe took about 27 percent of the vote Tuesday while DeBoles-Johnson won about 26 percent.

Its Florida primary day. Leon County school board and commission seats are on the ballot, plus Tallahassee mayor. Here are latest updates and results

Local candidates have dropped their first television commercials and glossy mailers of the election season, with some going into attack mode in the run-up to the Aug. 23 primary.