Two Valley cities, North Bend and Carnation, and the Snoqualmie Valley Hospital District saw strong candidate interest in last week’s filing period. In North Bend, one of the five positions up for election in November has three or more contenders and another would have, but a candidate withrew from the race this week.

In Carnation, all three city council seats will be challenged.

The hospital district’s three board positions also have at least one challenger, in addition to the incumbents.

Both Valley school districts will have uncontested positions on the November ballot.

Snoqualmie City Council seats, Fall City Water District, Fall City Parks District and Si View Metropolitan Parks District seats are also all uncontested.

By agency, the candidate filings include:

• Carnation City Council Pos. 1, Fred Bereswill (incumbent), Jeff Lim and Steve McFall;

• Carnation City Council Pos. 3, Lee Grumman (incumbent) and Jim Ribail;

• Carnation City Council Pos. 5 (incumbent Erin Chamberlain did not file for re-election) Dustin Green, Michael Flowers and Ernest Fix;

• Duvall City Council Pos. 2, Leroy Collinwood (incumbent) and Veronika Williams;

• Duvall City Council Pos. 4, Becky A. Nixon (incumbent) ;

• Duvall City Council Pos. 7, Jason Walker (incumbent);

• North Bend Mayor, Ken Hearing (incumbent);

• North Bend City Council Pos. 1, Jonathan Rosen (incumbent);

• North Bend City Council Pos. 3, Dee Wayne Williamson (incumbent), Rich Wiltshire, Piper M. Muoio and Trevor Kostanich;

• North Bend City Council Pos. 5,  David Cook (incumbent) and Brenden Elwood.

Rob McFarland also filed for the office, but said this week he would withdraw, citing business reasons, and throwing his support behind Elwood. “I felt very confident that he would be the right person,” McFarland said in a phone conversation with the Record Monday.

• North Bend City Council Pos. 7,  Ryan Kolodejchuk (incumbent), Judy Bilanko and Martin Volken;

• Snoqualmie City Council Pos. 2, short and full term  Chelley Patterson (incumbent);

• Snoqualmie City Council Pos. 4  (incumbent Kingston Wall did not file for re-election), Brad Toft;

• Snoqualmie City Council Pos. 6,  Charles S. Peterson (incumbent) and Joe Larson;

• Public Hospital District 4 Commissioner Pos. 1, David Speikers (incumbent), Fritz Ribary and Tim Noonan;

• Public Hospital District 4 Commissioner Pos. 3, unexpired term, Ryan Roberts (incumbent) and Emma R. Herron;

• Public Hospital District 4 Commissioner Pos. 5, Joan Young (incumbent), Bruno Kelpsas, Steve Weaver.

The filing period for candidates planning to run for election in February ended last Friday and the last day for candidates to withdraw from their races is Tuesday, May 19.

For information about the November election and the August primary, visit ww.kingcounty.gov/elections.aspx.