Unofficial Election Results: Preserve Easton ticket sweeps Town Hall, three land use seats

Election Day 2025 was a big win for Easton Republicans, as Dan Lent and Kristi Sogofsky topped a ticket that looks to walk away with seven if not all eight of the contested seats in the municipal election, pending mandatory recounts for three races.

Lent will be Easton's next first selectman pending the recount, as he led Selectman Nick D'Addario by six votes in the unofficial results. Sogofsky, meanwhile, was elected to her fourth full term as Selectman and fifth overall, and regardless of recount results, both will be on the Board of Selectmen once certified, marking the first Republican majority on the board since 2019.

Republicans also swept the three land use seats up for grabs. Lou DiPietro defeated incumbent chair John Foley in the first-ever election for a seat on the Planning & Zoning Commission, while incumbent Jim Wright and ballot newcomer Joe Palmieri won the two vacant seats on the Zoning Board of Appeals, once again giving Republicans a majority on both boards.

"Thank you to all those who voted, and for your faith in choosing me as the first-ever elected member of Planning & Zoning," DiPietro, who has been a P&Z alternate since February 2022, said in a statement. "Know that I will always have the best interests of all residents of Easton in mind and at heart over my term."

Republicans look to gain two of three seats in the other two races subject to recount, as well; Adam Bonoff holds an unofficial eight-vote lead in his bid for re-election to the Board of Assessment Appeals, while incumbent Region 9 Board of Education member Todd Johnston has an unofficial 11-vote edge for one of two open seats on that board.

And, on the Library Board of Trustees, a full seat remains open due to a statutory disqualification, which the ERTC hopes to fill with outgoing incumbent Mary Welch.

Elsewhere on the ballot, nine Republicans won their unopposed or statutorily guaranteed races: incumbents Debbie Szegedi (Town Clerk) and Krista Kot (Tax Collector) return for two more years in Town Hall; Kristin Falzone will join the Easton Board of Education; Josh Bailey was re-elected and Colin Cote elected to the Board of Finance; Diane Parker was re-re-elected to the Library Board of Trustees; and newcomer Genevieve Waterbury joins incumbents Anthony Battaglia and Darrin Silhavy as three of the town's seven Constables.

Full unofficial results can be viewed HERE.