South Snohomish County voters will have a small ballot for the Aug. 4 primary election.
The only significant local ballot choices will be to narrow the three-person fields to two for two Lynnwood City Council positions and for one Edmonds School Board position.
Ballots will be particularly small in Mountlake Terrace, Brier and nearby unincorporated areas of south Snohomish County where the only positions will be county executive and the single spot on the Edmonds School Board.
Ballots in Edmonds, Woodway and nearby unincorporated areas will have the executive position, the school board position and a meaningless election for the County Council position that Stephanie Wright now holds in Council District 3. Democrat Wright is the only candidate, but the position must appear on the ballot because state law requires all partisan positions to appear on both the primary and the general-election ballots.
Ballots in Lynnwood will have the two city Council positions, the school board position, the County Council position and the County executive position.
Non-partisan positions with three or more candidates appear on the primary ballot, with the top two vote getters advancing to the Nov. 3 general-election ballot. Non-partisan positions with only one or two candidates appear only on the November ballot.
Some places in other parts of the state will have propositions on the ballot, but no city or other entity in South Snohomish County has placed a proposition on the August ballot.
Here are positions that will appear on South Snohomish County primary ballots:
PARTISAN POSITIONS
- SNOHOMISH COUNTY
- Snohomish County Executive (four-year term):
- Dave Somers (prefers Democratic Party)
- John Lovick (prefers Democratic Party)
- Robert J. Sutherland (prefers Republican Party)
- Norm Nunnally (prefers Republican Party)
- James Robert Deal (states no party preference)
- County Council District 3(Edmonds, Lynnwood, Woodway, nearby unincorporated areas) (four-year term):
- Stephanie Wright (prefers Democratic party)
NON-PARTISAN POSITIONS
- CITY OF LYNNWOOD
- Council Position #4 (Four-year term):
- Shirley Sutton
- Loren Simmonds
- Maria Ambalada
- Council Position #5 (Four-year term):
- Chris Frizzell
- Benjamin Goodwin
- Douglas Jones
- EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT 15 (includes Edmonds, Lynnwood, Mountlake Terrace, Woodway and nearby unincorporated areas of southwest Snohomish County, unincorporated areas north of Edmonds and Lynnwood and northeast of Lynnwood, and part of Brier)
- Director district #3 (Four-year term):
- Gary Noble
- Mark L. Norton
- Mary Murphy
Evan Smith can be reached at schsmith@frontier.com.
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