North Reading Election Results

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect that both O’Leary and Manupelli captured seats on the Board of Selectmen.

North Reading’s Tuesday, May 5 election drew only a fraction of the town’s registered voters to the polls for no officially contested races.

According to unofficial results posted on the town’s website, incumbent selectman Stephen J. O’Leary captured 494 votes and Kathryn M. Manupelli earned 422 votes in a race for two open positions.

The other races were also officially uncontested, though there were a few write-in candidates that secured a handful of votes. The full unofficial results, with winners in bold, are as follows:

Selectman:

• Stephen J. O’Leary -- 494
• Kathryn M Maupelli -- 422

Moderator:

• John J. Murphy -- 526

School Committee:

• Gerald Venezia -- 431
• Julie B. Koepke -- 436
• John Barrette (declared write-in) -- 52

Community Planning (3-year term):
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• William C. Bellavance, Jr. -- 482
• Mark DeSimone (declared write-in) -- 22
• Joseph R. Veno (declared write-in) -- 97

Community Planning (1-year term to fill an unexpired term):

• Patricia E. Romeo -- 505

Housing Authority:

• Mary S. Prenney -- 548

Just 672 voters, or 6 percent of North Reading’s 10,593 voters, cast ballots in the election.