Glenda A. Hazard secured the open board of selectmen seat and last month’s special election.

Turnout was 861 registered voters, which is 19.7% of eligible voters. Hope Dale has a total of 4370 registered voters.

Three candidates vied for the vacant selectman’s seat in the Dec. 8 election. The three candidates who were on the ballot were Michael Edward Collins, Kaplan Hasanoglu and Glenda A.  Hazard.

Collins received 248 votes; Hasanoglu received 171 votes; and Hazard received 435 votes. There were two write-in votes cast and five left blank.

Mail-in and absentee ballots were processed during polling hours, with 1,042  mail-in ballots requested and 449 returned.

The special election, which comes on the heels of a rejected override leaving a budget gap that needs closing, was held Tuesday, Dec. 8. Voting was held in the Draper Gymnasium.t

The seat, which Town Clerk Lisa Pedroli said is only open through next year’s annual town meeting in May, was vacated when former selectmen Thomas Wesley moved out of town this summer and had to resign.