HALLOWELL -- Charlotte Warren has been elected as Hallowell's new mayor.

Warren, current City Council president, received 822 votes. Her opponent, Dot Mithee, received 519 votes, outgoing Mayor Anthony Masciadri announced late Tuesday night.

"This is a position I have been waiting to take for a long time," Warren said promptly after the results were announced. "I am ready to get to work."

Warren and Mithee are both familiar faces in Hallowell politics. Warren, who lives downtown, has been Ward 2 councilor since 2001. Mithee, of the city's south side, was a Hallowell councilor at-large from 2002 to 2008.

A new face will join the City Council come January: Ed Cervone.

Cervone received 760 votes to clinch an at-large councilor position, defeating Christy Cross, who received 538 votes.

Neither had held a municipal position prior to Tuesday's election, though Cervone was defeated in a 2006 mayoral run against the late Barry Timson.

"I'm just very happy," Cervone said after the winners were announced. "And I'm happy with the results of the (state) questions."

Hallowell rejected Question 1, the gay-marriage repeal proposal, with 931 voters saying no to repeal and 499 voters supporting it.

Hallowell took part in an early-voting pilot program Thursday, Friday and Monday. Two hundred nineteen residents took advantage of the program, and more than 600 voted by absentee ballot, city officials said.

City clerk Deanna Hallett said 1,446 residents -- a little more than 71 percent of Hallowell's population -- voted in this election.

Meghan V. Malloy -- 623-3811, ext. 431

mmalloy@centralmaine.com