Marshfield voters elected a new member to the select board while narrowly turning down an override for the new South Shore Regional Technical School.
Trish Simpson defeated incumbent select board Chair Lynne Fidler by 340 votes for a three-year term in Saturday’s annual town election.
Simpson received 2,139 votes to Fidler’s 1,799.
In the three-way school committee race for two seats, incumbent school committee members Lara Brait and Richard Greer Jr. fended off challenger Scott Swain.
Greer received the most votes, 2,505, Brait, 2,218, and Swain, 1,749.
The other seven races were uncontested.
Incumbents reelected were: assessor Nicholas Giaquinto with 2,839 votes; board of health member Paul Armstrong, 2,839; board of public works Robert Shaughnessy 2,853; and planning board member Michael Biviano Jr., 2,757.
Other incumbents reelected were trustees of veterans memorials, non-veterans, Janine Vaughan, 2,763 and Heather White, 2,764.
Newcomers Joshua Summers was elected to the trustees of veterans memorials, veteran, for a two-year term with 2,968 votes, and James Curran with 3,009 votes to a three-year term on the trustees of veterans memorials, veteran.
The proposed override was defeated by just 46 votes. There were 1,804 opposed and 1,758 in favor.
The override was to cover the town’s share of the construction cost of the new South Shore Regional Technical School. The nine-member district towns approved the project in January.
