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3 candidates are tracked for Public Utility District No. 1, Commissioner District 1 on the November 3, 2026 ballot: Sid Logan, Janet St Clair and Bruce King. Candidate information follows official Snohomish County election filings; verify with the official election office linked below.
The only contested countywide race on Snohomish County's August 4 ballot. Washington runs a top-two primary on August 4, 2026: every candidate for an office appears on one ballot, any voter may participate regardless of party, and the two highest vote-getters advance to November 3.
President of the Snohomish County PUD board and its sitting District 1 commissioner, per the utility's own commission page, appointed to the board in March 2017 and elected to a six-year term in 2020, per the Everett Herald. He worked eight years as executive director of operations for the Arlington School District and holds a petroleum engineering degree from the University of Alaska, per the PUD commission page, after an earlier career as an engineer and consultant in the oil and gas industry, per the Herald.
2026 priorities
- Finishing the utility's smart meter deployment and holding power costs down, per the Everett Herald
- Requiring large data center customers to pay for the infrastructure and energy they need rather than shifting those costs to other ratepayers, per SC News
- Funding tree trimming and infrastructure investment for Camano Island and Stanwood, per SC News
A sitting Island County commissioner of eight years, now completing a second term, who worked previously as a teacher and a social worker, per the Everett Herald and SC News. She describes the utility as core infrastructure that can be managed well with long range planning, per the Herald, and argues on her campaign site that households already stretched by higher prices for gas, groceries, health care and housing should not face energy costs as one more pressure.
2026 priorities
- Keeping rates low and energy reliable for households facing rising costs, per her campaign site
- Planning energy conservation and grid reliability on a 20 year horizon and pursuing local renewable options, per the Everett Herald
- Keeping the cost of very large electricity users from being shifted onto residential ratepayers, per the Everett Herald
Source: candidate campaign site, roster verified 2026-07-31.
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A rancher who spent about 10 years as a software engineer at Microsoft before moving into farming, per the Everett Herald. He first sought a seat on the PUD board in 2014 after power outages on his property, per the Herald, and describes himself as a working citizen and lifelong Washington resident with four children, per SC News.
2026 priorities
- Opening the utility's policy making meetings to more public participation, per the Everett Herald
- Delivering better value for ratepayer dollars and addressing rate disparities, per SC News
- Keeping growing data center demand from pushing the utility toward fossil fuel generation, per the Everett Herald
