In an election where just nine percent of voters turned out, all incumbents who ran were re-elected and the town voted to continue plowing private roads.

"It was the quietest election I've done in 16 years," said Town Clerk Mary Ann Silva.

Selectmen Judith Whiteside and Peter Teitelbaum were both re-elected to three-year terms with 868 and 837 votes respectively. Challenger Michael Frates came in third with 562 votes.

"I'm happy to be re-elected and happy that Judy was re-elected," said Teitelbaum. "We have a lot of challenges ahead and I think continuity on the board will help us beat those challenges."

He also congratulated Michael Frates on his campaign.

Frates and Whiteside could not immediately be reached for comment.

The town overwhelmingly voted to continue plowing private roads by a margin of 964 to 272.

“I’m pleased that passed,” said Teitelbaum.

“By the numbers it’s clear a lot of people who live on public ways and don’t really have anything to gain voted for it.”

This is a continuation of the town’s current policy, but to meet the requirements of state law the town needed to officially adopt a state statute to continue plowing private roads that are open to public use.

“It would be catastrophic during winter for ambulances, school buses, police cars to travel unplowed roads,” said Patricia Rumney, who gathered many of the signatures needed to put this question on the ballot.

Despite the low turnout, the vote tally took longer than normal because the voting machine at precinct six broke down while counting ballots.

Silva said she always rented an extra machine to swap out in scenarios such as this, but because of budget cuts, her department couldn't afford the $700 expense for the machine and had to hand count the results from precinct six.

The closest race of the election was for the Board of Assessors, which saw incumbent James MacCahill and Friends of Wareham Library President Priscilla Porter win three-year terms on the board with 746 and 658 votes respectively.

Capital Planning Committee Chairman James Giberti finished with 640 votes, losing to Porter by 18 votes.

The race for the three-year term on the Housing Authority went to former Finance Committee Chairman Donna Bronk over Agawam Village resident Henry Fernandes by a total of 727 to 463.

Cliff Sylvia and Mel Lazarus won uncontested races for School Committee.

Steven Coughlin won an uncontested race for constable.

Rudy Santos and William Lockwood won uncontested races for the five-year and one-year terms on the Housing Authority.

Porter was sworn in at Town Hall Tuesday night. She was the only candidate at Town Hall as the vote tally was announced.