The kickoff for the DeKalb County  polling season, the Alexandria City Election, is set for Thursday, September 1.
Three alderman seats were open, but incumbent alderman Darrell Dixon was the only person to throw his hat into the ring.
No write-in candidates will be eligible, as no one completed the required form requesting to have their votes counted by the deadline, which was at noon on July 13.
This is not the first election that the city of Alexandria has found itself hosting with a deficiency of candidates.
There was not a sufficient number of hopeful aldermen to fill the seats in the last city election in 2009, in which 19 out of the 634 registered voters in the city showed up to cast ballots.
Members of the Alexandria council are Aldermen Pat Jackson, Tony Tarpley, Addie Farley, Derrick Baker and Darrell Dixon. One position remains vacant. The Alexandria Mayor is Ria Baker.
The mayor and aldermen in Alexandria will likely appoint the remainder of the council after the election is held.
The Mayor and two aldermen in Smithville will be up for election next June.
The Mayor’s job is currently filled by Taft Hendrixson, and the two aldermen positions in question are held by Steve White and Cecil Burger.
A total of 538 voters out of 2,870 registered in Smithville cast ballots in the Smithville Municipal Election in 2011. Only 188 people voted on election day, while 350 people voted early or by absentee ballot.
Local businessman Danny Washer and attorney Gayla Hendrix earned seats on the Smithville City Council, in that election, unseating incumbents W.J. (Dub) White and Aaron Meeks, while incumbent Shawn Jacobs was re-elected.
Washer garnered 290 votes, or 21.72 percent, Jacobs retained his seat with 249 votes, or 18.65 percent, and Hendrix received 211 votes, or 15.81 percent.
White and former council member Cordell Walker each earned 209 votes, and Meeks tallied 165.

Meanwhile, the Assessor of Property and all seven of the county constables will be up for election in the August 2012 DeKalb County General Election, as well as school board members from the fifth and sixth districts, all for four-year terms.
Assessor of Property Timothy “Fud” Banks was re-elected in the last election in 2008, W.J. (Dub) Evins, III was chosen by fifth district voters as their school board member and Bruce Parsley was voted in by the sixth district.
The constables elected in 2008 were; Reed Edge in the second district, Wayne Vanderpool in the third district, Paul Cantrell in the fourth district, Mark Milam in the fifth district, Cantrell Jones in the sixth district, and Johnny King in the seventh district.
No constable was elected in the first district.
The DeKalb County Democratic Party will select its nominees for the assessor’s office, as well as for constable contenders, through the primary process, while the local Republican Party will choose its nominees by convention.
Candidates for school board member do not run as party nominees, but as non-partisan candidates.
Also on the horizon is the upcoming election of State Representative, U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator in 2012.
The State Representative Terri Lynn Weaver, Congresswoman Diane Black  and U.S. Senator Bob Corker will all be up for re-election.
The nominees for these seats will be selected in August in the Tennessee Democratic and Republican primaries, and final ballots for the positions will be cast in the will run against each other in the Tennessee General Election in November, 2012.
The State Representative and U.S. Congressman are in for two year terms, and U.S. Senator serves for six.
The Presidential election will also be held in November 2012, and the Tennessee Presidential Preference Primaries will be held in March, and though no official date has been set, the DeKalb County Democratic Primary will mostly likely be scheduled to coincide with the Presidential primaries.