Twenty-eight candidates have already qualified for races for the Nov. 3 city elections in Lithonia, Stone Mountain, Clarkston, Pine Lake, Avondale and Decatur and the sitting mayors in Stone Mountain and Clarkston are not among them.

When qualifying closed Thursday, Mayors Gary Peet in Stone Mountain and Lee Swaney in Clarkston did not qualify. Both were first elected in 2001 and will leave their posts in December.

In Lithonia, council members Marcus Lloyd, Deborah Jackson and Al Franklin have qualified for re-election. They are being challenged by William “Rick” Dodd and political newcomer Hassan Abdullah. The top three vote-getters will win the seats.

Lloyd, a real estate examiner, is completing his eighth year on the council. Jackson, a lawyer, and Franklin, an advertising consultant, won special elections in March and are hoping for full four-year terms.

This is the third race for the council for Dodd, a Wayfield supermarket employee. He ran for the council in the March 2009 special election and in 2005. Abdullah is a security worker.

In Stone Mountain, seven candidates qualified for mayor and three council seats.

Mayor pro-tem and city councilwoman Sharon Frierson, councilwoman Beverly Jones, and Patricia “Pat” Wheeler, who was mayor from 1987 to 1997, are looking to succeed Peet.

Frierson’s term on the City Council expires this year, while Jones is giving up council term, which expires in 2011. Council members Susan Coletti and Steve Higgins qualified for re-election and are being challenged by Mann Nash and Robert Smith.

In Clarkston, eight people qualified for races for mayor and the council. The four candidates seeking to to be mayor are city councilwoman Pat Davis-Morris, whose term ends in December, Rosemarie Nelson, Howard Tygrett and Joyce Wade.

For the three council seats up this year, council member Karen Feltz is seeking re-election, and Dean Moore, Adam White and Joan Swaney, the mayor’s wife, have qualified. Wayne Foster, whose term ends in December, is not seeking re-election.

On Thursday, with a day of qualifying still go, no one had qualified for two at-large commissioner seats in Avondale Estates and Melanie Hammet was the lone person to qualify for re-election in Pine Lake, which has three council posts open. Qualifying in Avondale and Pine Lake ends at 4:30 p.m. on Friday.

With still a day to go, eight candidates had qualified for races for five seats in the city of Decatur by end of day Thursday.

Eight-year city District 1 Post A councilman Fred Boykin is running for re-election and is being challenged James Radford. Mary Alice Kemp is not seeking re-election for the District 2 Post A seat. Patti Garrett and R. Kyle Williams have qualified to run for that seat.

School board incumbents Bernadette Seals, Marc Wisniewski and Valarie Wilson are all seeking re-election. Robert Pope is challenging Wilson, who is the board chair. Seals and Wisniewski had no challengers as of Thursday.