Adam Murphy has unseated Woody Hartley on the Rochester Select Board, winning the May 24 election 845-673. After a recount of last year’s Select Board race, Murphy lost by one vote against incumbent Brad Morse. Murphy also ran against Hartley in 2020 and lost.
Below are the Rochester Town Election unofficial results, as read shortly after the polls closed by Town Clerk Paul Dawson.
* incumbent
1,557 ballots were cast.
SELECT BOARD (vote for 1)
* Greenwood Hartley III 673
Adam Murphy 845
Write-in’s: 0
Blanks: 39
PLANNING BOARD (vote for 2)
* Ben Bailey 809
* John Demaggio 935
Dennis McCarthy 632
Write-in’s: 5
Blanks: 733
LIBRARY TRUSTEES (vote for 2)
Heather Alford 644
Jane Taylor 983
Sarah Verbyla 441
Write-in’s: 8
Blanks: 1,038
ORR SCHOOL COMMITTEE (vote for 1)
* Joe Pires 791
James O’Brien 728
Write-in’s: 0
Blanks: 38
ROCHESTER SCHOOL COMMITTEE (vote for 2)
* Kate Duggan 805
* Anne Fernandes 733
Greg Hardy 693
Sydney Teixeira 691
Write-in’s: none announced
Blanks: none announced
TAX COLLECTOR (vote for 1)
* Beatrice Renauld 1,237
Write-in’s: 13
Blanks: 307
TOWN CLERK (vote for 1)
Marjorie Barrows 990
Write-in’s: 299
Blanks: 268
BOARD OF HEALTH (vote for 1)
* Dale Barrows 1,182
Write-in’s: 6
Blanks: 369
CEMETERY COMMISSION (vote for 1)
Write-in’s: 217
Blanks: 1,340
BOARD OF ASSESSORS (vote for 1)
* Suzanne Szyndlar 1,163
Write-in’s: 9
Blanks: 385
PARK COMMISSION (vote for 1)
* David Sylvia 1,203
Write-in’s: 3
Blanks: 351
HERRING INSPECTOR (vote for 1)
* William David Watling 1,251
Write-in’s: 5
Blanks: 301
WATER COMMISSION (vote for 1)
* Fred Underhill 1,236
Write-in’s: 4
Blanks: 317
Shall the town vote to have its elected town clerk become an appointed town clerk for the town?
YES: 401
NO: 895
Blanks: 261