WHATELY — Selectboard Chair Fred Baron emerged victorious in Tuesday’s election, defeating political newcomer Joshua Harris in the town’s only contested race on the ballot, 205-109.

Voter turnout was 30.8%, as 325 of the town’s 1,055 registered voters participated in the election, according to Town Clerk Amy Lavallee. Among his counterparts in southern Franklin County who also faced challengers this year, Baron was the only one to earn reelection while new faces joined the Conway and Deerfield selectboards.

Baron, 66, said he is excited to serve a second Selectboard term and that he is ready to continue many of the projects and initiatives the town has launched in the last few years.

“I’m happy that the people of Whately are giving me another three years to do the job,” Baron said by phone on Wednesday. “I thank everyone who came out to vote.”

Topping his list of priorities is introducing Town Administrator Peter Kane to the community when he joins the town next week. Long-term goals include finding a use for the former Center School, getting a new Highway Department garage and spurring economic development around the Exit 35 neighborhood.

“The first thing is we’ve got to get a new town administrator up to speed and he starts next week,” Baron said, before adding that the other priorities “will keep us busy.”

The results in the uncontested races are as follows:

■Moderator, one-year term — Nathanael A. Fortune, incumbent, 272 votes.

■Frontier School Committee, three-year term — William Smith, incumbent, 285 votes.

■Whately School Committee, three-year term — Bob Halla, 26 votes.

■Board of Assessors, three-year term — Frederick P. Orloski, incumbent, 261 votes.

■Board of Assessors, two-year term — Jenny Miriam Morrison, 281 votes.

■Library trustee, two seats with three-year terms — J. Robert Klinger, incumbent, and Virginia J. Selman, 257 and 242 votes, respectively.

■Library trustee, two seats with two-year terms — Debra Louise Carney and George Howe Colt, both incumbents, 275 and 258 votes, respectively.

■Cemetery commissioner, three-year term — Darcy Jane Tozier, incumbent, 287 votes.

■Board of Health, three-year term — Francis Fortino, incumbent, 285 votes.

■Water commissioner, three-year term — John Matthew Lukin, incumbent, 286 votes.

■Elector Under Oliver Smith Will, one-year term — Keith E. Bardwell, incumbent, 297 votes.

Chris Larabee can be reached at clarabee@recorder.com or 413-930-4081.