Ted Dooley and Wayne Spritz have been elected to join the Swampscott Select Board.

Swampscott’s local election was held on Tuesday, April 28 from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Swampscott High School. Dooley and Spritz won the only contested race. Residents also voted for candidates for School Committee, town moderator, Housing Authority, Library Trustees, Board of Health and Town Meeting Members. There were also write-in campaigns for Board of Assessors and Planning Board.

Dooley received 1,064 votes, and Spritz earned 1,008 votes. Patsios came in third, with 598 votes. Godfrey got 398 votes. The current vote count is only a preliminary result.

“I’m feeling great, and I think it was a really good campaign,” Dooley said. “We’re lucky to have all four candidates run and take a great approach to the race into the town, and I’m hopeful it what kind of sets a new tone for the whole board and for the rest of the team.”

Spritz’s daughter voted for her father in the first election she was eligible to participate in.

“There’s no better demonstration of democracy than local elections,” Spritz said. “I couldn’t be happier today. I’m proud of how we ran our campaign and how respectful this election went. We’re all eager to turn the page to a new chapter, and I can’t wait to get to the important work of the town we love.”

The other race results that were uncontested had the following winners:

• Ryan Hale: Town Moderator, with 1,153 votes
• George Allen: Board of Health, with 1,145 votes
• Debbie Friedlander: Trustee of the Public Library, with 1,126 votes
• Katie Arrington: School Committee, with 981 votes
• John Giantis: School Committee, with 994 votes
• Martha Driscoll Cesarz: School Committee, two-year term, with 1,196 votes
• Ken Shutzer: Housing Authority, with 1,111 votes

The 18 people with the most votes in the Town Meeting races each precinct were also elected. They are:

Precinct 1:

• Michael Serino, with 179 votes
• Michael Contreras, with 168 votes
• Ralph Edwards, with 165 votes
• William Hancox, with 162 votes
• Reggie Pagan, with 161 votes
• David Pitcher, with 161 votes
• Jorge Briones Jr., with 158 votes
• Colin Loggins, with 155 votes
• Ronald Burgess, with 153 votes
• Cynthia Michelle Hellmann Flatt, with 152 votes

Precinct 2:

• Natalie Swanstrom, with 92 votes
• Amanda Geil, with 87 votes
• Eden Clark, with 85 votes
• Virginia LeBlanc, with 84 votes
• Geralyn Stephan, with 82 votes
• Jaime Bloch, with 81 votes
• James Cassetta, with 78 votes
• Christian Urbano, with 75 votes

Precinct 3:

• Wayne Spritz, with 232 votes
• Katie Phelan, with 198 votes
• Marta Curry, with 159 votes
• Shayne Spaulding, with 153 votes
• Charlotte Daher, with 152 votes
• Sydney Pierce, with 151 votes
• Edward Mulvey, with 143 votes
• Kraig Hitchcock, with 136 votes
• Jaqueline Ruckel, with 136 votes
• Gail Rosenberg, with 135 votes
• Constance Carman, with 133 votes
• Rebecca Trufant White, with 133 votes
• Marsha Dalton, with 131 votes
• Susan Diehl, with 129 votes
• Loring Lincoln Jr, with 104 votes

Precinct 4:

• Wayne Godfrey, with 167 votes
• George Allen, with 144 votes
• John Giantis, with 143 votes
• Lisa Carangelo, with 133 votes
• Maura Pilotte, with 129 votes
• Martha Schmitt, with 128 votes
• Joe Roman, with 119 votes
• Merle Hyman, with 113 votes
• Bindesh Shrestha, with 110 votes
• William Quinn, with 107 votes
• Michelle Gosselin, with 106 votes
• Robert Scheier, with 104 votes
• Laurie Lebbon, with 99 votes
• Gary Callahan, with 95 votes
• Albert Pica IV, with 91 votes
• Michael Paquette, with 90 votes
• Lauren Shrestha, with 90 votes
• Leonard Russo, with 88 votes

Precinct 5:

• Ted Dooley, with 171 votes
• Nicole Dooley, with 170 votes
• Martha Driscoll Cesarz, with 168 votes
• Stefanie Neumann, with 135 votes
• Diana Caplan, with 133 votes
• Shelley Sackett, with 130 votes
• Deborah Doyle Caniff, with 123 votes
• James Smith, with 122 votes
• Brian Longin, with 122 votes
• Lynette Simons, with 120 votes
• Leonard Rotman, with 116 votes
• Karen Whitman, with 116 votes
• Gregory Racki, with 110 votes
• Adrian Rodriguez, with 110 votes
• Andrew Whitman, with 110 votes
• Joseph Simons, with 108 votes

Precinct 6:

• Lawrence Block, with 133 votes
• Robert Levine, with 122 votes
• Debbie Friedlander, with 116 votes
• Bonnie Wernik Levine, with 114 votes
• Jill Simmons-Wetmore, with 106 votes
• Rachel Taradash, with 105 votes
• Jeffrey Wilson, with 101 votes
• Helen Tieger, with 103 votes
• Kelsey Doub Henry, with 97 votes
• Lisa Hickey, with 97 votes
• Jonathan Leamon, with 97 votes
• David Zucker, with 96 votes
• Trevor Henry, with 94 votes
• Damon Demady, with 93 votes
• Alison Stewart, with 92 votes
• Barrie Atkin, with 91 votes
• Victoria Maher, with 91 votes

At 8 p.m. the wardens shut down the machines at each precinct’s polling station. The machines tallied up early votes from last week as well as the ballots submitted on Tuesday. 

The results from Tuesday night, however, are preliminary, as it does not include write-ins or hand tallies for ballots that either did not have a circle filled or something else was not picked up correctly by the machine, according to Town Clerk Katie Dupont. 

The official results will be published on the town website and the Swampscott Tides on Wednesday.

The election turnout, however, was not as strong as previous years. Slightly over 14% of the 12,533 people registered, or 1,803 people, voted this election.

“Voting is important,” said now-former Select Board Member David Grishman. “The fact we get 10% turnouts is abysmal. Getting that to 60 or 70% is a sign of an engaged populous.”

Doug Thompson, the other Select Board member who did not run for re-election, said it was “a little bittersweet” to be at the polls but that he was “excited for the next chapter for our town.” He did mention the possibility of moving the election to a later date in the year in the future, in the hopes of potentially seeing more engagement.

“(Voting is) hugely important,” Thompson said. “There are options for the next Select Board and Town Meeting members to move the election to November to line up with other elections.”