RANDOLPH -- Edward F. Gorham was elected by a one-vote margin Tuesday to a three-year term on the Board of Selectmen, Town Clerk Lynn Mealey said.

The selectman's position was the only contested race on the municipal ballot, she said. Vote counters conducted a recount because the race was so close.

Mealey listed vote totals for each of the three candidates. Former Selectwoman R. Gloria Fitzherbert received 80 votes while Gorham received 81 and retired electrical equipment salesman Alfred A. Seymour Jr. captured 79 votes.

The ballot also contained three open four-year positions on the Budget Committee, but only Francis W. Hanley, a member of the committee, ran for re-election.

Hanley received 194 votes.

Michael Carrie, with 46 votes, and Glendon James, with 56 votes, also won seats as write-in candidates.

No candidates put in their names on the ballot for an open SAD 11 School Board position. Tyler Trott won the seat as a write-in candidate with 70 votes, Mealey said.

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