Democrat wins special election in House District 45

Democrat Stephen Moriarty won a special election Tuesday for a state House seat representing Cumberland and part of Gray.

Moriarty won with 62 percent of the votes cast in Cumberland and part of Gray.

The election in House District 45 was to replace Dale Denno, a Cumberland Democrat who resigned in March and died in April of lung cancer. He had disclosed his illness the previous summer, said he would serve as long as he could and was elected to a second term in the House in November.

Moriarty will complete Denno’s term, which runs until December 2020.

Moriarty carried Cumberland comfortably, winning 1,221 to 757, and that town has the majority of voters in the district. Turnout was low, with 1,982, roughly 28 percent, of Cumberland’s 7,006 registered voters going to the polls. In the Gray portion of the district, Moriarty had 68 votes and Hughes had 47.

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for Rep. Denno.