Wilmington Town Election Results: Incumbents, Plowman Win

WILMINGTON, MA — Melissa Plowman and the two incumbents were elected to the Wilmington School Committee in the annual town election Saturday.

Plowman beat Yvonne Helbert and Justin Cusce in the race for a two-year term on the committee. Mary Jane Byrnes and David Ragsdale were re-elected to three-year terms, fending off a challenge from James DeFeo.

This will be Plowman's first elected office. She will serve the remaining two years of Steve Bjork's term after he resigned his seat.

Plowman, 43, is a mental health counselor with a private practice.

"Our district needs to rebuild and re-establish respectful, working relationships between families and our schools," she said. "We must work together, collectively, if we want to do best for our kids."

Byrnes, 55, was first elected to the School Committee in 2012. She is a senior administrative assistant for an internal medicine practice at Mass General. Ragsdale works as an educational specialist for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and was elected to the School Committee in 2018.

There were also uncontested races for the Board of Selectmen, town moderator, the Shawsheen Tech School Committee and the Housing Authority.

Election Results

Unofficial results. Winners printed in bold type. Candidates for re-election are marked with an asterisk (*). Percentages may not add up to exactly 100 due to rounding.

Turnout: 6.60 percent (1,197 votes out of 17,944 voters)

School Committee (two seats, three-year terms)

School Committee (one seat, two-year term)

Board of Selectmen (one seat, three-year term)

Town Moderator (one seat, three-year term)

Shawsheen Tech School Committee (one seat, three-year term)

Housing Authority (one seat, five-year term)

Christopher Huffaker can be reached at 412-265-8353 or chris.huffaker@patch.com.