A Primary Election battle is taking shape for this summer on Bainbridge Island.

With Filing Week closed Friday, May 19, three elected positions on Bainbridge finished with three declared candidates.

Two are on the Bainbridge Island City Council, where three seats in all will be up for grabs in November; District 3 (South Ward), District 5 (Central Ward) and District 7 (North Ward).

Three candidates have filed for the North Ward seat, the position currently held by incumbent councilman, and also mayor, Val Tollefson. (Tollefson announced earlier he would not run for a second term.)

The candidates for the position are Joe Deets, J. Mack Pearl and Kevin Fetterly.

Deets, a solar design consultant and currently the chairman of the city’s Ethics Board, said he would strike a balance between development and preserving Bainbridge’s open space.

Pearl, an architect, also vowed to protect the island’s environment.

Both of the other Bainbridge council positions have two candidates.

The dust settled on another potential council primary race after the close of the filing period, after four candidates for the Bainbridge Island City Council threw their hats into the race for District 3 (South Ward).

The four candidates included former Bainbridge councilwoman Kirsten Hytopoulos, Gloria Reeg, Theodore “Ted” Jones and Matthew Tirman.

Hytopoulos and Reeg, however, later pulled their hats out of the ring, leaving just Jones and Tirman in the race.

Incumbent South Ward Councilman Roger Townsend, who previously expressed interest in seeking another term, won’t seek re-election.

Hytopoulos, a councilwoman from 2010 to 2013, said she jumped into the race when she thought there would be a lack of choices for voters.

Hytopoulos said she decided to drop out after she heard Jones was in the race, and she said she would throw her support to his candidacy.

In the other council race, Wayne Roth is seeking another term in the Central Ward position. Rasham Nassar is also running for the post.

Nassar runs a small organic farm on Bainbridge with her husband and her campaign also carries an environmental theme.

Voters will also pick two top candidates in a primary race for the Bainbridge school board.

Incumbent Board Director Sheila Jakubik, who is currently president of the school board, is seeking another term.

But she’ll face a crowded ballot come August. Two other candidates are also in the running: Jesse Burns and Christina Wakefield.

In the race for the District 2 seat on the school board, incumbent Mike Spence is being challenged by Judith McLaughlin.

One other race on Bainbridge is contested: the Commissioner Position 5 seat for the board of the Bainbridge Island Metropolitan Park &Recreation District.

Incumbent commissioner Kirk Robinson is running for another term. The challenger is Michael Pollack.

Two incumbents have filed for re-election for the board of the Bainbridge Island Fire Department and are unopposed.

Bruce Alward is seeking a six-year term for Commissioner Position 3, and Ernst “Fritz” von Ibsch is running to fill a two-year unexpired term.