HADLEY — Incumbent Select Board members Molly A. Keegan and Randall E. Izer turned back a challenge from political newcomer Philip W. Shumway at town election Tuesday, according to unofficial results.

In the only other contested election on the ballot, Kishore Parmar earned a one-year position on the Planning Board over Anthony S. Fyden, of Cold Spring Lane, 550-496. A member of a family who runs three hotels in Hadley, Parmar, of Chmura Road, will join Joseph F. Zgrodnik of Meadowbrook Drive, who won an uncontested five-year seat on the board.

Keegan, of Hadley Place, received 692 votes and Izer, of Autumn View Lane, got 628 votes, to keep the seats they won in 2022. Shumway, of Jackson Lane, trailed with 475 votes.

Keegan, who has served as chairwoman for the past year, said she is grateful to the voters for electing her in a contested race. Some of the focus of the Select Board election was on fiscal matters and the possibility of the town’s first-ever Proposition 2½ tax-cap override to support the operating budget for town and school services later this year.

“I am very much looking forward to continuing the work with our current board, given the fact that there is so many pretty significant issues facing the town of Hadley,” Keegan said. “And I think the current board has the experience to work through those issues.”

The only other question on the ballot was whether to make constables appointed by the Select Board rather than elected by voters. That narrowly passed, 447 to 445.

Town Clerk Jessica Spanknebel read the results at about 8:05 p.m., shortly after polls closed at the Senior Center, though none of the candidates were present at the time.

For School Committee, Christine Pipczynski ran unopposed for a second three-year term. Other incumbents who won reelection included Kirk Whatley for a three-year term as moderator, Emma Dragon for a three-year term on the Board of Health, Diane Kieras-Ciolkos for a three-year term on the Park Commission, Crystal Jackson for a five-year term the Hadley Housing Authority, Julia Rose for three-year term and Lynn M. Latham for a one-year term as library trustees, Dennis Pipczynski and William Banack for three-year terms as constables, Spanknebel for a three-year term as town clerk, and Maureen Devine for a one-year post as elector under the Oliver Smith Will.

Walter Jennings earned a three-year term on the Board of Assessors.

There were no candidates for a second three-year position on the library trustees and a four-year position on the Hadley Housing Authority.

The 1,081 voters who cast ballots represented a 27% turnout of the town’s 3,972 registered voters.

Scott Merzbach can be reached at smerzbach@gazettenet.com.