VIDALIA — Elections for Concordia Parish sheriff and police jury, as well as Louisiana statewide offices, are today.

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Those on the local ballot include:

-Sheriff — Kenneth Hedrick and Payne Scott, both independents.

-Police Juror, District 1A — Carey Cook and Johnnie “Rip” Woodruff, both Democrats.

-Police Juror, District 2 — Willie Dunbar, Fred Marsalis, Rodney “Fred” Washington and Dax Winston, all Democrats.

-Police Juror, District 3A — Adam Probst, Republican, and Tim Welch, independent.

-Police Juror, District 3B — Ronnie Harris and Cornell Lewis, both independent, and Whest Shirley, Republican.

-Police Juror, District 4A — Jerry Beatty, Democrat, and Cade Craft, Republican. Another Democrat, Rodney Matthews, had qualified but withdrew from the race.

-Police Juror, District 4B — Ray Cater, Democrat, and Jimmy Wilkinson, independent. Independent candidate Daryle Price qualified for the position but has since withdrawn from the race.

-Police Juror, District 5A — Suson Hauer, independent, and Jimmy Jernigan, Democrat.

Candidates for clerk of court, coroner, tax assessor and two police jurors — districts 1B and 5B — do not have opposition.

The statewide ballot includes races for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, agriculture commissioner, insurance commissioner, treasurer, attorney general and Board of Elementary and Secondary Education District 5.

Four constitutional amendments are also on the ballot.

-A vote for Amendment 1 would require the state to send some of its mineral revenue money to a newly-created transportation projects fund in addition to sending it to the Budget Stabilization Fund, also known as the Rainy Day Fund.

A vote against the amendment would leave things as they are, with mineral revenue all going into the Budget Stabilization Fund.

-A vote for Amendment 2 would give the state treasurer the ability to invest state money in the state infrastructure bank, which is meant to serve as a funding body for local governments that want low-cost financing for transportation projects.

The bank has been created but currently does not have any deposits from which it can operate.

A vote against the amendment would force the bank to seek other means of financing.

-A vote for Amendment 3 would broaden the scope of the what bills legislators can bring to the floor during a fiscal session.

A vote against would maintain the status quo, in which bills are limited in nature during a fiscal session.

-A vote for Amendment 4 would require state or local governments outside Louisiana that own property inside the state to pay taxes for those properties.

A vote against the measure would push the issue to the court system, which has in the recent past ruled that governments that own property inside Louisiana don’t have to pay property tax.