Lowell voters ousted two incumbent city councilors in yesterday’s election. In District 4, Sean McDonough defeated incumbent Wayne Jenness, and in District 7, Sidney Liang defeated incumbent Paul Ratha Yem. With incumbent Corey Belanger having lost in the preliminary election in District 3, there will be three new city councilors in January. For now, that third new city councilor will be Belinda Juran, but her margin of victory over Dan Finn was just four votes, so there may be a recount. While recounts generally don’t change the initial vote count, the final result of that race may not be determined for another week or two.

On the school committee, new comer Danielle McFadden topped the ticket in the at large race, however, incumbent Jackie Doherty did not run and all other incumbents were reelected.

As for voter turnout, it was slightly higher than two years ago but still historically low. Yesterday, 8,494 of 77,624 registered voters cast ballots, whereas in 2023, turnout was 7,516 of 75,294.

Here are the unofficial results from yesterday’s voting:

City Councilor At-Large (top three elected)

Vesna Nuon (incumbent) – 4,889
Erik Gitschier (incumbent) – 4,705
Rita Mercier (incumbent) – 4,173
Sixto DeJesus – 2,987
Emile Kaufman – 1,237

City Councilor District 1 (top one elected in all districts)

Daniel Rourke (incumbent) – 799

City Councilor District 2

Corey Robinson (incumbent) – 550

City Councilor District 3

Belinda Juran – 1,143
Daniel Finn – 1,139

City Councilor District 4

Sean McDonough – 410
Wayne Jenness (incumbent) – 358

City Councilor District 5

Kimberly Ann Scott (incumbent) – 610
Sherri O’Connor Barboza – 163

City Councilor District 6

Sokhary Chau (incumbent) – 504

City Councilor District 7

Sidney Liang – 397
Paul Ratha Yem (incumbent) – 303

City Councilor District 8

John Descoteaux (incumbent) – 724
Marcos Candido – 685

School Committee At-Large (top two elected)

Danielle McFadden – 4,526
Connie Martin (incumbent) – 3,889
Robert Hoey – 2,323
Zoe Dzineku – 1,723

School Committee District 1

Fred Bahou (incumbent) – 1,864

School Committee District 2

Eileen DelRossi (incumbent) – 1,007

School Committee District 3

David Conway (incumbent) – 2,214

School Committee District 4

Dominik Lay (incumbent) 976