Council Chairman Anne Swift-Kayatta won reelection and newcomer Cynthia Dill won the other open seat on the Cape Elizabeth Town Council in Tuesday’s election.
Swift-Kayatta was elected for a third term, with 2,521 votes, and three-year Cape resident Cynthia Dill was elected for her first term, with 2,222 votes. Mary Page, the owner of Two Lights General Store, garnered 992 votes and the store’s cook Greg Altznauer got 754 votes.
Swift-Kayatta, who spent nearly 13 hours at the polls Tuesday, said Wednesday she is “very pleased to have come in first” and is pleased about the citizens’ demonstrated confidence in her.
She is looking forward to the upcoming budget process which she said is “starting to percolate along” and though she says it is always a difficult subject because of finite resources she said she has “every confidence” that Town Manager Mike McGovern, the superintendent and others will “do a good job.”
Dill lost a January bid for a council seat by six votes. Though this win wasn’t “completely unexpected, I certainly hadn’t taken it for granted,” she said.
Dill spent more than 11 hours at the polls. And though she spent the day after her victory catching up on a backlog of work, she did celebrate Tuesday night with her family. “I celebrated in my own way … it certainly wasn’t a victory parade at the Holiday Inn,” she said.
Dill does not have any specific issues that she wants to target immediately. “I don’t expect to set my own personal agenda,” she said. She plans on dealing with issues as they arise.
The election drew just over half of Cape’s registered voters, though Town Clerk Deborah Cabana was reluctant to give an exact figure because a number of people registered at the polls.
The two uncontested School Board seats were filled by Katharine N. Ray with 2,893 votes and Linda J. Winker with 2,592 votes.
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