4-26-2022 8:50pm

How Westwood's Five Precincts Voted - Unofficial Results of Town Election

Darlene Cancell Editor

Image of ballot box by felipeblasco from Pixabay.

Following the close of polls at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, the unofficial results show that:

Anthony Mullin and Dorothy "Dori" Parmelee have won the two open seats on School Committee.
Philip Giordano has won the one-year term on Planning Board.

School Committee

In the contest for School Committee, the results were consistent across all five voting precincts. Incumbent Mr. Mullin was the top vote getter across the board with 2,017 votes, followed by Ms. Parmelee in second place across all districts with 1,671 votes, and Heather Morrison in third across all districts with 995 votes.

Planning Board

In the contest for the one-year seat on Planning Board, Mr. Giordano appears to have prevailed in a close race against incumbent Thomas McCusker, 1,102 votes to 1,027 votes. Mr. Giordano won in Precincts 2, 3, and 4, with 40.40 percent of the vote while Mr. McCusker was the top vote getter in Precincts 1 and 5 with 37.65 percent of the vote. Blanks left by voters declining to vote comprised 21.70 percent of the available vote in this race.

It appears that Precinct 3 was key to Mr. Giordano's win. Precinct 3 is where Mr. Giordano had the most comfortable lead over Mr. McCusker. Mr. Giordano had 78 more votes than his competitor there, in an election where Mr. Giordano appears to have won by only 75 votes. The spread of votes between the two candidates in all other precincts was much smaller.

Other Winners

All other winners in this Town Election come from uncontested races where the number of open seats equaled the number of candidates in the running. The winners and their vote tally are as follows:

Select Board (three-year term)- Marianne LeBlanc Cummings, 1,972 votes

Moderator (one-year term) - James O'Sullivan (incumbent), 1,914 votes

Planning Board (three-year term) - Kathleen Wynne (incumbent), 1,683 votes and Joshua Ames, 1,458 votes

Assessor (three-year term) - Christopher McKeowen (incumbent), 1,922 votes

Collector of Taxes (one-year term to fill a vacancy) - Elaine de Reyna, 1,870 votes

Library Trustees (three-year term) - Paul T. Fitzgerald (incumbent), 1,655 votes and Nancy Donahue, 1,613 votes

Sewer Commissioner (three-year term) - David Krumsiek (incumbent), 1,835 votes

Interesting Facts

Of the 11,853 registered voters in Westwood, 2,728 people or 23 percent came out to vote.

Precinct 3 had the highest voter turnout, with 31 percent of all voters in that precinct voting in this election.

Precincts 4 and 5 tied for the lowest voter turnout, with 18 percent of registered voters from each of those precincts participating in this election.

Westwood residents next have a chance to vote in just a few days. The Annual Town Meeting is coming up on Monday, May 2, 2022 and will be held in Westwood High School's auditorium at 200 Nahatan Street. Check-in begins at 5:30 p.m. with awards and recognitions at 6:00 p.m. and business beginning at 6:30 p.m.