SKOWHEGAN — Voters elected a downtown business owner with ties to economic development organizations to an open seat on the town select board.

Matthew P. DuBois beat Newell B. Graf Jr. by a vote of 886-654, unofficial results from the town show.

DuBois replaces Chairman Whitney Cunliffe, who did not run for reelection after serving 1 ½ years on the board. The seat comes with a three-year term.

DuBois, 38, is a certified pastry chef and certified master floral designer who co-owns The Bankery & Skowhegan Fleuriste at 87 Water St. 

DuBois, who has lived in town for 19 years, also chairs the board of directors of the economic revitalization nonprofit Main Street Skowhegan and serves on the board of the quasi-governmental Skowhegan Economic Development Corp.

Graf, 70, is a retired construction superintendent. A Skowhegan resident since he was 9 years old, Graf was a Skowhegan selectman from 2008-14 and served on the Somerset County Budget Committee for two of those years. 

He then was elected as Somerset County commissioner for the following eight years, seven of which he served as chair of the board of commissioners. He is currently the president of the board of directors of the Somerset Humane Society in Skowhegan.

In a five-way race for four seats on the Maine School Administrative District 54 board of directors, all with three-year terms, voters chose Karyn J. Curran with 853 votes, Margaret “Peggy” A. Lovejoy with 740, Cynthia A. Kirk with 644, and Samantha D. Delorie with 544. Tanya Groce lost her bid for reelection with 428 votes.

Curran and Lovejoy were also incumbents running for reelection. Delorie served on the board previously when she lived in Norridgewock. Kirk, who works for the town as its solid waste and recycling supervisor, was elected to office for the first time.