AUGUSTA — Residents elected Annalee Morris-Polley to an at-large seat on the Augusta City Council, as the newcomer beat two opponents in the race to fill the spot.

Morris-Polley, in unofficial results, received 3,601 votes, topping Bobby-Jo Bechard’s 2,735 and Joseph Wathen’s 2,149, to take a seat currently held by Abigail St. Valle, who did not take out papers seeking reelection.

None of the three candidates have held elected positions in the city before.

Morris-Polley, 46, owner of a mental health and substance use agency licensed by the state, said during the election she ran for council because she’s lived in Augusta more than 40 years — where her family has lived for three generations — and she believed it’s important to have local people on the City Council who know the area, and know what people want Augusta to be.

In a three-way race to fill two at-large spots on the Augusta Board of Education, April Ambrose, with 4,919 votes, and Jonathan Reynolds, with 3,624 votes, took the seats, beating out Jane Maguire-Tyce, who received 3,015 votes.

They will replace board members Kevin Lamoreau and Pia Holmes, whose terms expire at the end of the year.

Damboise, 49, is a nurse practitioner and Reynolds, 33, is a community organizer for Mobilized Recovery.