Voters will have their chance to quiz candidates running for state and Whidbey public offices next week in two election forums.

Organized by the South Whidbey Record and the Clinton Progressive Association, the forums are scheduled for Monday, Oct. 3 and Wednesday, Oct. 5 at the Clinton Community Hall. Both begin at 6:30 p.m.

The first forum will include candidates vying for the two open county commissioner seats. Scheduled to attend are incumbent Helen Price Johnson, a Clinton Democrat, and her challenger, Gary Wray, a Coupeville Republican for the district one position.

Price Johnson has served two terms at a commissioner and before that was a South Whidbey School Board member. Wray is a political newcomer.

Facing off for district 2 are incumbent Republican Jill Johnson and Democrat John Fowkes. Both are from Oak Harbor. Johnson has served one term, and Fowkes is running for his first elected office.

County commissioner seats are partisan positions with terms of four years.

The second night will focus on the state’s district 10 House and Senate races, and Initiative 732. Vying for the Senate are incumbent Barbara Bailey, R-Oak Harbor, and Angie Homola, D-Oak Harbor. Bailey served several terms in the House before defeating longtime Camano lawmaker and senator Mary Margaret Haugen in 2012. Homola served one term as a county commissioner before being unseated by Johnson in 2012.

Seeking position 2 of the district 10 House race are incumbent Dave Hayes, R-Camano, and Doris Brevoort, D-Mount Vernon. Hayes is wrapping up his second two-year term while Brevoort has run unsuccessfully for elected office three times in Mount Vernon but never secured a position, according to her website.

Incumbent Norma Smith, R-Clinton, and Michael Scott, L-Camano, are vying for House seat position 1. Scott, however, declined to attend and asked that a statement be read in his stead. Smith will be present and will present a brief statement as well.

Finally, I-732 will be argued by representatives of Carbon Washington — the organization proposing the initiative — and the Washington State Labor Council. If approved, the measure would impose a carbon emission tax on certain fossil fuels and fossil-fuel-generated electricity, reduce the sales tax by one percentage point and increase a low-income exemption, and reduce certain manufacturing taxes.

Carbon Washington and the labor council penned the pro and con arguments that appear on the state’s 2016 general election voter guide.