First Selectman Scalettar Wins Re-election, Other Woodbridge Election Results

Woodbridge First Selectman Ellen Scalettar won re-election in Monday’s voting for town offices, beating Republican Cathy Wick by a narrow margin of 56 votes out of 3,102 cast for the two candidates — a 1.8 percent difference.

Scalettar’s vote total was 1,579 (50.9 percent) to Wick’s 1,523 (49.1 percent).

The vote was a rematch for the two candidates — Scalettar, a Democrat, had won election two years ago after joining the race late on the death of former First Selectman Ed Sheehy, according to the New Haven Register. Scalettar said she was pleased to have been re-elected after conducting a positive campaign; Wick said she was pleased to have at least finished not far behind, the newspaper reported.

Scalettar, who gets two votes on the Board of Selectmen, will have three Republicans on the six-member board. According to the official, preliminary returns (posted on the town government website), the five other elected members of the board are Republican Tony Anastasio (1,565 votes), Democrat Beth Heller (1,548), Republican Joe Dey (1,505), Democrat Susan Jacobs (1,489), Republican Maria Kayne (1,448).

Democrat Lawrence Grotheer lost his bid for a seat on the board, receiving 1,351 votes.

(In Bethany, Democrat and incumbent First Selectwoman Derrylyn Gorski received 1,125 votes to Republican Aileen Magda’s 887, according to the Register.)

Other Woodbridge election returns

Board of Education

• Lynn Piascyk (R) — 1,641 votes
• Garrett Luciani (R) — 1,530
• Margaret Hamilton (D) — 1,399
• Emily Beth Melnick (D) — 1,362

Board of Assessment Appeals

• Claire Coleman (D) — 1,488 votes
• Edward Weinberg (R) — 1,437

Zoning Board of Appeals

• Cynthia Gibbons (R) — 1,846 votes
• Edee Lockyer (R) — 1,586
• David Speranzini (D) — 1,527