Numbers Are In For Marblehead's Annual Town Election

MARBLEHEAD, MA — While much attention in Marblehead's annual town election was focused on two tax override questions that were not ultimately close in the final vote tally, there were some contested town posts that did remain in question as heavy turnout forced a late counting of the ballots.

Photocopied ballots had to be used when printed ballots ran short in the afternoon, then had to be hand-counted late into the night after the polls closed Tuesday night.

When the unofficial vote totals were tallied, all five Select Board members were re-elected, voters chose Alison Taylor to join incumbent Sarah Fox in heading to the School Committee, and there were tight races for Board of Health and Municipal Light Commissioner.

Here are the unofficial results for this year's election in contested races:

Select Board

(Vote for no more than 5 candidates; 1-year term)

2,687 Jackie Belf-Becker

2,718 Moses Grader

3,188 James Nye

3,085 Erin Noonan

3,011 Alexa Singer

1,904 James Full

2,356 Bret Murray

School Committee

(Vote for no more than 2 candidates; 3-year term)

3,463 Sarah Fox

2,026 Reece Dahlberg

3, 054 Alison Taylor

Town Moderator

(Vote for no more than 1 candidate; 1-year term)

2,984 John Attridge

2,307 Matthew Wolverton

Cemetery Commission

(Vote for no more than 1, 1-year term)

1,503 Rose Ann Wheeler McCarthy

2,581 Pam Peterson

Board of Health

2,558 Helaine Hazlett

2,440 Thomas McMahon

Municipal Light Commission

2,605 Walter Homan

2,795 Michael Hull

2,624 Jean-Jacques Yarmoff

Ballot Question 1 (Capital Projects)

3,342 Yes

2,177 No

Ballot Question 2 (School Budget)

1,798 Yes

3,927 No

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)