CARIBOU – Three incumbents held off three newcomers in Tuesday’s election, giving them three more years on the City Council.

Christopher Bell, Caribou’s deputy mayor, was the top vote-getter in the six-person field, with 1,717 votes. He was followed by Lucinda J. Hebert with 1,517 votes and Joanne R. Willette with 1,333 votes.

Richard M. Goughan was just 117 votes off the mark with 1,216 votes. Rounding out the six candidates were Dale J. Morin with 739 votes and Joseph F. Corbin with 568 votes.

Unopposed for three-year seats on the Caribou Board of Education were David W. Keaton and Scott M. Willey. Theodore B. Tornquist was unopposed for a three-year term on the Jefferson Cary Memorial Hospital Fund.

Bell served as chairman of the City Council’s personnel committee, was on the airport committee, is a member of the Focus on the Future Committee, is past chairman of the city’s committee on computers and information technology, and is on the steering committee for AroostookJobs.com.

Bell is senior associate director of financial aid at the University of Maine at Presque Isle. He is a native of Caribou and a graduate of the University of Maine at Farmington.

Hebert has served as a member of Focus on the Future since its inception, and is on the Cary Medical Center board of directors. She is on several other city boards. Hebert is a 1990 graduate of the University of Maine at Presque Isle and was Caribou’s Citizen of the Year in 1999.

Willett was elected to the board to which she was appointed earlier this year, replacing Vicky Umphrey.

A native of Van Buren, she moved to Caribou three years ago from Washburn. She is a member of several boards.

Keaton, Willey and Tornquist are all newcomers to city politics.