WINSLOW — A new town councilor was elected Tuesday to fill a vacant District 2 seat and two candidates were elected to at-large seats on the council.

Katie Otis won District 2, defeating Nate Bigelow, with 18 to 13 write-in votes, respectively.

Incumbent Lee Trahan and former councilor Raymond Caron won the at-large seats on the council with 1,180 and 963 votes, respectively, in a five-way race. Scott Holst came in third with 925 votes; Roy Lord was fourth with 749; and Garrett Buzzell took 392.

Trahan secured a third consecutive three-year term on the council. The second at-large seat had been vacant since Jeff West resigned suddenly in May.

No candidates qualified for the ballot for the open District 2 seat, which became vacant after Councilor Dale Macklin resigned in May. District residents were told they could write in a candidate’s name on the ballot.

Town politics have been tumultuous over the past two years, beginning with the hiring of Ella Bowman as town manager in 2023. Bowman left a year later after she said she was the target of transphobic comments from councilors, and her replacement, Steve Soucy, announced his resignation this past summer after just three months on the job. Marc Amaral started the job as town manager about two weeks ago.

Trahan, who was born and raised in Winslow, said recently that he thought the biggest challenge facing the town in the next three years is keeping spending under control.

“We already know there are definite funds that we’ve received over the last year that will not be there next year, and we have to do the best we can to control spending and minimize any additional cost to the budget,” he said.

Caron said recently the biggest challenge facing the town is infrastructure off the Cushman Road, including on Joe Avenue, Bert Street and Sam Street. That infrastructure, he said, was built in the 1960s and is at the end of its life cycle. The sewer, water and road structure needs to be updated and modified, according to Caron.