Miamians can start voting in the Nov. 3 election as early as Monday, to make their choices for a new mayor and three new commissioners.

Commissioners Joe Sanchez and Tomás Regalado are vying to replace Mayor Manny Diaz, who is reaching his eight-year term limit.

Competing for Sanchez's District 3 seat are seven candidates: Willie Chacon, Frank Carollo, Mavel Lopez, Mico Colmenares, Pedro R. Diaz, Maria Beba Sardiña Mann and Luis C. Morse.

In the race to replace Regalado, who represents District 4, the contenders are: Francis X. Suarez, Oscar Rodriguez-Fonts, Denis Rod and Manolo Reyes. The winner will finish Regalado's unexpired term, which ends in 2011.

In District 5, Michelle Spence-Jones is running for reelection against challengers Jeff Torain and David Chiverton.

The winners in each of the three races will serve for four years.

In Coconut Grove, voters will also choose nine new members of the Coconut Village Council, a local advisory board to the City Commission.

The top nine vote-getters -- all volunteers -- will win four-year seats.

Five incumbents are running: David B. Collins, Michelle Niemeyer, Felice Dubin, Liliana Dones and Adam Weirich.

A dozen political newcomers round out the field. They are: Heather Bettner, Kate Callahan, Rose Fountain, William Furry, Javier Gonzalez, Scott Janowitz, Giana Leyva, Stephen Murray, Sylvia Quinn, Renita Samuels-Dixon, Patrick Sessions, David Eric Wells.

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. from Monday to Friday and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. onSaturday and Sunday through Nov. 1.

Voters must bring their voter registration card and another form of identification.

These locations will be open for early voting:

• Miami City Hall, 3500 Pan American Dr.

• Stephen P. Clark Center, 111 NW First St.

• West Flagler Branch Library, 5050 W. Flagler St.

• Allapattah Branch Library, 1799 NW 35th St.

• Lemon City Library reading room, 430 NE 61st St.

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