In the latest ballot counting, Arlington city council challenger Joshua Roundy was easily defeating longtime incumbent Chris Raezer for the City Council 71 percent to 28 percent.

Incumbent Jesica Stickles was leading her race against Craig Christianson 54 percent to 45 percent.

For school board, incumbent Ursula Ghirardo was way behind challenger Judy Fay 59 percent to 41 percent. For the open seat, Marc Rosson had a big lead over Lyanne Rolf 60 percent to 40 percent.

MARYSVILLE

Marysville school board challenger Vanessa Edwards increased her lead over incumbent Bruce Larson after more ballots were counted by Monday evening.

The pair were in a virtual tie on Election Night, with Edwards leading by 39. But now she has collected 52 percent of the vote while Larson dropped to 48 percent. Her lead has increased to 542 votes, a lead that cannot likely be overcome.

More ballots will be counted by 5 p.m. Tuesday.

As of Monday evening, 144,904 ballots were counted in Snohomish County, of course only a portion of those are from the Marysville-Arlington areas. Turnout so far is 32 percent. In all of the other races, the numbers changed, but the results didn’t.

In the other school board race, incumbent Chris Nation is beating Ray Sheldon 63 percent to 37 percent.

For Marysville City Council, businessman Mark James and volunteer extraordinaire Tom King were leading by large margins. James had 59 percent and Wright 41 percent. King had 56 percent and Seibert 43 percent.

Council incumbents were leading easily in the other two races: Jeff Vaughan with 65.5 percent and Robert Weiss with 34 percent; and Michael Stevens with 84 percent and Elijah Olson 15 percent.

SNOHOMISH COUNTY

Nate Nehring of Stanwood was beating Ray Miller of Marysville 60 percent to 40 percent.

There are other races locally, such as for judge and in Lakewood, but they were uncontested.

BY THE NUMBERS

County Council: Nehring, 17,008; Miller 11,312.

Arlington Council: Stickles 1,598; Christianson, 1,333.

Roundy 2,010; Raezer 800.

Marysville Council: Vaughan 6,473; Weiss 3,368.

James 6,030; Wright 4,135

King 5,608; Seibert 4,317

Stevens 8,173; Olson 1,502

Arlington School Board: Fay 3,429; Ghirardo 2,393.

Rosson 3,452; Rolf 2,288

Marysville School Board: Nation 7,261; Sheldon 4,483.

Edwards 6,013; Larson 5,571

Cascade Valley Hospital: Tim Cavanaugh 4,229; Randy Tendering 1,764.

Fire District 15: David Sherman 431; Buck Evans 372.

Fire District 21: Eric Nordstrom 915; Ken Johnson 852.

Ed Taft 1,068, Steve Meyers 705.

Fire District 25 levy: Yes 155, No 70.

-Arlington Times reporter Douglas Buell contributed to this report.