Ransom wins Ronald Wastewater election with final 51-48 margin over Lind

By Evan Smith

Contributing Writer

Former Shoreline City Councilman Bob Ransom won election to the Ronald Wastewater District board with 51 percent of the District votes to 48 percent for incumbent Commissioner Arne Lind.

Final results certified Tuesday, Nov. 29, from the Nov. 8 general election show Ransom with 6,975 votes in the Shoreline portion of the District to 6,621 for Lind, with 61 write-in votes and 4,370 blank ballots. Ransom got one vote in the tiny Snohomish County part of the District, with four blank ballots.

Voter turnout was 54 percent in the Shoreline part of the District and 100 percent among the five voters in the Snohomish County part of the District.

Lind was seeking a third six-year term on the three-member board.

Ransom was a Shoreline City Council member from 1995 to 2007, the last two years as mayor. He lost a re-election bid to Councilman Terry Scott in 2007.

He was a member of the Shoreline School Board from 1983 to 1991.

Ransom ran as a Republican candidate for State representative in 2002, losing to Democrat Maralyn Chase by a 56 percent to 44 percent margin.