MEREDITH — Carla Horne ousted incumbent selectman Colette Worsman by more than 200 votes here Tuesday in a three-way race for two three-year terms on the board of selectman.
Horne polled 579 votes to Worsman's 371 while incumbent Peter Brothers was easily re-elected and the top vote getter with 619 votes.
''I am ecstatic. The entire town is happy and very ecstatic. Meredith has spoken'' said Horne, who added that she was "raring to go'' in her new position as selectman.
''One of the nicest things about the local race is that it's non-partisan,'' said Horne, a Democrat who lost a bid for a seat in the New Hampshire House in 2010. Worsman, a conservative Republican, was one of the two victors in that race.
Worsman had campaigned on her record as a fiscal conservative and experience on the board while Horne touted her professional experience as the head of Grand View Home Inspections LLC and said that her skills matched the challenges that the town faces in safeguarding the water quality of Lake Waukewan and implementing the recommendations of the Energy Committee.
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