Unofficial Election Results in Lyme
The results are from the Connecticut Secretary of the State’s Office.
The results are from the Connecticut Secretary of the State’s Office.
The results are from the Connecticut Secretary of the State’s Office.
Voters in a rare contested race for first selectman have endorsed the ideals of volunteerism, collaboration and consensus with the election of Democrat-supported unaffiliated candidate Christy Zelek.
The draft plan was produced as part of a roughly year-and-a-half-long process by the Lyme Planning and Zoning Commission and endorsed by the town’s Board of Selectmen in September.
The public is invited to the swearing-in ceremony at the Old Lyme Town Hall Meeting Room for all newly elected officials.
Incumbent First Selectwoman Martha Shoemaker, D, held onto her seat in a repeat of her 2023 run against Republican John Mesham despite a changed voting landscape that stretched out through two weeks of early voting.
In unconfirmed results, unaffiliated candidate Kristy Zelek, who was endorsed by the Democrats, swept to victory in Lyme with 675 votes, defeating her Republican challenger Tom St. Louis, who polled 451 votes.
Voting officials in Lyme and Old Lyme on Election Day reported happy voters despite a glitch with one of the new tabulators in Lyme.
Before polls opened this morning for Election Day, more than 170,000 Connecticut residents had already cast a ballot. That includes 1,553 early voters in Old Lyme and 530 in Lyme, according to local voting officials.