The June 3 primary election ballots will be full of familiar names in Ventura County.

Every incumbent in the area's congressional, state Senate, state Assembly and county supervisor seats filed to run for re-election by Friday's 5 p.m. deadline, except for those forced out by term limits. And many of the challengers have run for office in the past, too.

Congressman Elton Gallegly, R-Simi Valley, filed for re-election weeks ago, less than an hour after the filing period opened. As he was in 2006, he'll be opposed in the Republican primary by Thousand Oaks attorney Michael Tenebaum, who declared his candidacy Friday.

Two years ago, Gallegly announced he would retire, just hours before the filing deadline. He decided to stay in the race after discovering he could not remove his name from the ballot.

In the 2006 primary, Gallegly won about 80 percent of the vote. Tenenbaum said Friday that he expects to make a stronger showing this year because the first race gave him experience and name recognition.

"I'm not interested in running a campaign to get 20 percent of the vote again," he said.

Tenenbaum has not officially qualified for the ballot; he turned in his paperwork on Friday, a few hours before the deadline, and it will be verified by the Ventura County Elections Office next week.

Run for Congress

In the Democratic primary for Gallegly's 24th Congressional District seat, Mary Pallant of Oak Park will face off against Jill Martinez of Oxnard. Martinez was the Democratic nominee two years ago, and Pallant briefly entered the race against her but dropped out before the filing deadline.

State Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, is termed out of his 19th District seat and announced plans this week to run for Congress in a district in Northern California. His open Senate seat has drawn one candidate from each party, each one a former Assembly member: Republican Tony Strickland and Democrat Hannah-Beth Jackson.

Neither candidate faces opposition in the June primary, setting up a November showdown between Jackson, a Santa Barbara Democrat, and Strickland, a Moorpark Republican.

Strickland's wife, Assemblywoman Audra Strickland, will run for re-election to her 37th District seat. Two candidates will compete in the Democratic primary for the right to oppose her in November: David Hare of Camarillo and Ferial Masry of Newbury Park, the Democratic nominee in 2006.

'Formidable opponent'

At the local level, two seats on the Ventura County Board of Supervisors will be contested in nonpartisan elections.

Fifth District Supervisor John Flynn will face challengers John Zaragoza, an Oxnard city councilman, and Denis O'Leary, an Oxnard School District trustee. If no candidate wins more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two finishers will advance to a runoff in November.

Zaragoza leads in the early fundraising in the campaign. Flynn, though, has won eight elections in the Fifth District and lost only one.

Third District Supervisor Kathy Long has one challenger, Socorro Lopez Hanson, the executive director of the nonprofit Community Action of Ventura County and an Oxnard Union High School District trustee.

First District Supervisor Steve Bennett will run unopposed. Three people pulled the paperwork to run against him, but by Friday's deadline, no one had gathered the necessary signatures or paid the filing fee to be placed on the ballot.

Mike Gibson, who ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Ventura City Council last year, was one of the potential candidates.

"I decided it probably wouldn't be a good opportunity for me this time around, based on the formidable opponent I would have to face, Mr. Bennett, and the formidable resources he has at his disposal," Gibson said.

As of Dec. 31, Bennett had $165,568 in campaign cash on hand, enough to meet the spending limit for the race without raising another dime.

The candidate lists released by the Ventura County Elections Office on Friday were preliminary. Complete lists will be released next week.

On the ballot

These candidates have filed to run in the June 3 election. Note: This list is preliminary. The Ventura County Elections Office will release an official list next week.

23rd Congressional District: Democratic

Lois Capps, Santa Barbara (incumbent)

24th Congressional District: Democratic

Mary Pallant, Oak Park

Jill Martinez, Oxnard

Marta Jorgensen, Solvang

24th Congressional District: Republican

Elton Gallegly, Simi Valley (incumbent)

Michael Tenenbaum, Thousand Oaks

17th Senate District: Democratic

Bruce McFarland, Santa Clarita

17th Senate District: Republican

George Runner, Lancaster (incumbent)

19th Senate District: Democratic

Hannah-Beth Jackson, Santa Barbara

19th Senate District: Republican

Tony Strickland, Moorpark

23rd Senate District: Democratic

Lloyd Levine, Los Angeles

Fran Pavley, Agoura Hills

23rd Senate District: Republican

Leonard Lanzi, Calabasas

Rick Montaine, Calabasas

35th Assembly District: Democratic

Pedro Nava, Santa Barbara (incumbent)

37th Assembly District: Democratic

David Hare, Camarillo

Ferial Masry, Camarillo

37th Assembly District: Republican

Audra Strickland, Moorpark (incumbent)

38th Assembly District: Democratic

Carole Lutness, Santa Clarita

38th Assembly District: Republican

Cameron Smyth, Santa Clarita (incumbent)

41st Assembly District: Democratic

Julia Brownley, Santa Monica (incumbent)

41st Assembly District: Republican

Mark Bernsley, Woodland Hills

1st District County Supervisor

Steve Bennett, Ventura (incumbent)

3rd District County Supervisor

Kathy Long, Camarillo (incumbent)

Socorro Lopez Hanson, Camarillo

5th District Supervisor

John Zaragoza, Oxnard

John Flynn, Oxnard (incumbent)

Denis O'Leary, Oxnard

Ventura County Superior Court Judge

Jeffrey Bennett, Ojai

Roberto Orellana, Santa Paula

Ballot measures

Santa Paula: East Area One development.

Thousand Oaks: Measure B, traffic mitigation.