There were three other boroughs in which election races were waged in Tuesday's primary.

Bruin

Four borough councilmen appear headed for re-election after capturing Republican nominations in Tuesday's primary.

The top vote-getters for the four open seats, according to unofficial results, were Wallace Emery Jr., with 47 votes; Jack Saylor, 46; Steven Emery, 37; and Jonathan Pennington, with 32 votes.

The other two GOP candidates, Barry Bowser and his wife, Melissa Bowser, received 13 and 11 votes, respectively.

There were no Democratic candidates on the ballot, meaning that Wallace Emery Jr. and his son, Steven Emery, and Saylor and Pennington are all but certain to retain their four-year seats following the general election.

Wallace Emery, who serves as council vice president, and Saylor were last re-elected in 2005. Steven Emery and Pennington were appointed to fill vacancies.

In keeping with the family theme that pervades council, Pennington's father, Larry Pennington, serves as council president; and his grandmother, Arlene Pennington also is a council member.

The winning candidates either could not be reached for comment or did not return telephone messages Tuesday night.

Callery

Two four-year term council nominations were up for grabs as Ed Conway and Edward Ashley took the Republican spots for the November election ballot.

Conway received 25 votes while Ashley garnered 21 votes to take the second ballot spot beating out Judy Conway, who received 10 votes.

Only one resident, Robert Dugan, filed for the Democratic nomination and received 12 votes.

Mars

Borough voters again nominated Richard Settlemire as their Republican candidate for mayor in Tuesday's election.

Settlemire, near the end of his second-consecutive stint as mayor, will run uncontested in the November election unless a Democrat stages a write-in campaign against him.

He garnered 100 votes in the primary compared to rival Republican Christine Clutter's 56 votes.

More than 30 percent of registered Republicans turned out for the primary.

The mayor serves a four-year term in the borough before facing another election.

Clutter, a legal secretary and former Seven Fields borough secretary for 18 years, also has been on borough council for two terms.

Settlemire, married with two sons, said he'll tackle the growing drug problem in the small borough, promote the town in an effort to bring in more business and continue to oversee the police department without micromanagement.