Friday’s qualifying deadline for the District 2 seat on the Vicksburg Warren School District Board of Trustees brought no additional candidates, which means it’s a two-person race on Nov. 6.

District 2 Trustee Zelmarine Murphy, 67, faces former Vicksburg High School head football coach Alonzo Stevens, 60, in the general election this fall.

Murphy seeks a fifth, six-year term on the five-member board. Stevens is making his first run for public office after he retired from the sidelines in June after 11 years coaching the Gators and 38 years in the district.

The District 2 race is the lone contest on the school board this year. Qualifying was shortened this year to 30 days to allow the race to be on electronic ballot cards instead of paper ballots, as had been the case in 2008 and 2010.

Federal races on the general ballot in Warren County are for president, U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, in the 2nd Congressional District.

President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney are on the ballot with Virgil Goode, of the Constitution Party and Gary Johnson, of the Libertarian Party.

U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, a Republican, vies for re-election. Democrat Albert Gore Jr., no relation to the former vice president, Thomas Cramer, of the Constitution Party, and Shawn O’Hara, of the Reform Party. Wicker won the seat in a 2008 special election after former Senator Trent Lott retired.

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, first elected in 1993, faces Republican Bill Marcy, Cobby Mondale Williams, an independent, and Lejena Williams, of the Reform Party.

Three district-level local races appear on November ballot. They include contests for three of five seats on the Warren County Election Commission and a position on the state Court of Appeals.

On the commission, District 1 incumbent Petesy Smith faces Jan Whatley, a poll manager in the district. District 4 incumbent John Rundell faces Sara Carlson Dionne, a poll worker in the district. District 4 incumbent Lonnie Wooley faces Gordon Cordes, a retired engineer, and Robert Croisdale, an auto parts supply contractor.

District 2 Commissioner Retha Summers and District 3 Commissioner Elva Smith-Tolliver are unopposed.

In the appeals court race, Judge Ermea J. Russell faces Vicksburg attorney Ceola James. The judgeship covers District 2, Place 2, and is spread over all or part of 24 counties on the state’s western half.