WINTERPORT — Selectman Roland Ginn won re-election, Monday, with 318 votes, but Board Chairman Samuel Butler came in third, 10 votes behind David Flewelling, who received 277 votes.

Other candidates for the two selectmen seats were Lledrew Hackett, with 214 votes, and Phillip Pitula, with 234.

Nancy Patterson, who ran unopposed for a seat as assessor, received 591 votes.

Deborah Wellman won a seat on the SAD 22 board of directors with 393 votes, outpacing Louis Fourman, with 131, and James Patterson, with 138.

The annual town meeting will be held Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Leroy Smith School, where voters will decide what amount shall be appropriated to operate the town police department. Selectmen discarded ballots on the issue earlier this month after deciding that the five questions might be confusing to voters and could lead to a minority vote dictating department makeup and budget.

Voters will decide a proposed 19.3 increase in the town budget, recommended by the Budget Committee and created partly by an estimated $120,000 school budget increase. Winterport’s share of the school budget for SAD 22 this year was $556,565.

Selectmen recommended a budget of $809,803, representing a 22.1-percent increase over last year, a proposal that would raise the tax rate from $15.50 to as much as $18.12 per $1,000 valuation. The rate will be set when town valuation figures are available, according to town officials.

The ballots that would have decided the police issue were discarded March 7 after a lengthy public hearing. Although absentee ballots had been cast, the board said that those, too, would be thrown out.

Town Attorney Thomas Russell told selectmen during a break in the public hearing that the five questions had been worded in such a way that if the first question were passed, by even one or two votes, but no resident voted against it, then it would pass. If that were to happen, votes on the following questions would not be counted, even though several hundred voters might favor one of the other options.

Ginn told the board that he favored holding a special election at some time after the town meeting. That way, he said, voters would be able to spend a day at the polls and cast secret ballots.