Toby Marrow and Jeff Rednick each won a seat on the Rye Brook Village Board of Trustees Tuesday, beating independent candidate Moge Agahian in the village's first contested election in six years.

Mayor Joan Feinstein, who ran uncontested, also won another term as mayor. Feinstein, Marrow and Rednick all ran on the Rye Brook Together ticket, a local group that currently holds all five seats on the Village Board. Each will serve three-year terms.

Turnout for the election was not high. Of the more than 6,000 registered voters in the village, 2,663 people, or about a third of registered voters, participated in the election.

Feinstein received 805 votes, while Rednick received 734. Marrow won the second seat on the Village Board by garnering 619 votes to Agahian's 515.

The Board of Trustees certified the vote shortly before 10p.m., close to an hour after the polls closed.

Agahian and her supporters, who gathered at Village Hall to hear the results, were clearly disappointed.

Agahian declined to comment, but her campaign manager, Hillary Silver, said Rye Brook Together's firm lock on the village board was not good for local government and that the board would continue its overspending and lack of transparency. 

"I'm very sad that the community is going to have any more years of this total absolute control and not have a fresh voice," Silver said.

Lina Accurso, another of Agahian's supporters, said her campaign made inroads in Rye Brook politics.

"There's been no opposition here for six years," Accurso said. "I'm very proud of Moge because she made a start. It's very hard to be one person against the establishment."

Accurso said Agahian's supporters have formed a new opposition party called We the People of Rye Brook.

"We have a  new party and there is an election with two seats next year," she said. "If we just keep making our points and having facts to back up the points, we will get it [seats on the board], if not this time, then next time." 

Silver said We the People of Rye Brook is contrary to Rye Brook Together in that it stands for "transparency, changing things so that community members can get things done, [and] having a friendlier village government. It's really that simple."

Rednick, who gathered with Marrow at a victory party at supporter Ken Berman's home, said Rye Brook Together has led the village's government in the right direction and that voters who cast their ballots Tuesday are satisfied with the group's leadership.

"I think that people came out today and they voted for Toby and myself, and I think that demonstrated that people are generally happy with the direction that Rye Brook is going in," Rednick said.

Both Rednick and Marrow will begin their terms during budget season.

During the campaign, Rednick stated that he would ask department heads at Village Hall to cut their budgets by five to 10 percent, an idea he said he would carry through when he officially begins his duties at a village trustee.

Marrow, his running mate, acknowledged that the Village Board would face some difficult decisions when it begins the budget process in April, but said that she was prepared for it.

"I'm ready to roll up my sleeves and get to work," she said.

Marrow and Rednick will be sworn-in on April 13.