Events in the news this week.

Tuesday is Election Day, with a number of statewide primaries and propositions, as well as county and local races, to be decided. The candidates who will face each other in the November general election in the races for governor and the first-ever state insurance commissioner, among others, will be chosen.

Locally, voters will choose among five Republican and two Democratic candidates in the 58th Assembly District, which encompasses Seal Beach and Huntington Beach as well as Long Beach in Los Angeles County. Republican voters in the 70th Assembly District will choose between two candidates, while the Democratic candidate is unchallenged. Two Democratic candidates appear on the ballot in the 71st and 72nd districts, while the Republican candidates in each are running unopposed.

Republican and Democratic candidates are running unchallenged in the primary in the 64th, 67th, 69th and 74th Assembly districts.

Democrats in the state’s 32nd Senate District will choose between two candidates, while the Republican candidate is running unopposed.

Voters in the 2nd, 4th and 5th districts of the County Board of Supervisors will go to the polls to vote for their representatives. All three incumbents are running for reelection. The countywide district attorney, sheriff-coroner, recorder, assessor and superintendent of schools races are also on the ballot, as are a county Board of Education seat and two judicial positions. Candidates in several other countywide offices are running unopposed in the primary. Measure A, the centralized jail initiative, rounds out the countywide slate.

Irvine residents will cast their vote in a mayoral race as well as for two City Council seats. Three City Council seats are up for grabs in Dana Point.

Several local initiatives will be voted upon. Westminster residents will be asked to decide if the sale of fireworks should be banned, Seal Beach residents will decide if City Council members should receive a pay raise and Irvine residents will decide whether the city should widen two existing bicycle-and-pedestrian-only Yale Avenue overpasses to two lanes to accommodate cars.