Early voting ballots propelled the Democrats running for Barrington Town Council into two of the three open seats.

Democrats Liana Cassar and Kerry O’Neill won spots on the Council, as did Independent candidate Brian Hughes. All three Democrats — Cassar, O’Neill and Jordan Jancosek — saw a boost from early voting. Cassar received 2,492 early votes, while O’Neill received 2,317 and Jancosek received 2,252. 

Those totals are all higher than the early voting tallies for the Independent candidates: Hughes received 2,025 early votes, while Bryan Hoffman received 1,747 and Derick Daley received 1,430. 

Cassar captured 18.9 percent of the total vote, followed by Hughes at 18.1 percent, and O’Neill at 17.6 percent. 

Jancosek received 16.7 percent of the vote, Hoffman had 15.4 percent and Daley finished with 13 percent.

Cassar, Hughes and O'Neill will join Democrats Braxton Cloutier and Kate Berard on the Council. 

School Committee stays Independent

There will be four Independent candidates on the Barrington School Committee following Tuesday’s election. 

Independent candidates Elizabeth Singh and Karen Rasnick finished first (21.5 percent of the vote) and second (21.1 percent), respectively, in the voting, while Democrat Tim McNamara finished third (20.8 percent).

Incumbent Democrat Megan Douglas finished in fourth place (18.1 percent) and failed to retain her spot on the Committee, while Lisa Nelson finished in fifth (17.7 percent). 

Singh, Rasnick and McNamara will join Independents Frazier Bell and TJ Peck. 

“I don’t know. It’s weird. It won’t hit me until I have to do things,” said Rasnick on Tuesday night. “Now I’m a politician.”

Rasnick said she heard from many people who wanted to see a change on the School Committee. 

“I think the fact that Liz and I are not politicians. We are moms. We just want the schools to be better,” she said. “We don’t have the answers. We want to listen to people.

“We’re not nasty and there was a lot of nasty going on… Politics doesn’t belong in our schools. Schools are about what’s best for our children.”

Turf fails, FTM is out

Barrington voters soundly rejected the two ballot questions regarding synthetic turf fields.

Question 9, which asked for approval to install a synthetic turf field at the middle school, was rejected by 59.9 percent of the voters. Question 10, which opened the door to install synthetic turf at a town-owned location, was rejected by 60.5 percent of the voters. 

Meanwhile voters approved Question 6, which calls for a new Financial Town Referendum instead of the Financial Town Meeting. 71.3 percent of the voters approved that question. 

Other winners

• Town Moderator: Richard Staples

• House District 67: Jason Knight

• House District 66: Jennifer Boylan

• Senate District 32: Pamela Lauria