The East Brunswick Board of Education will have an entirely new look after four candidates won seats as newcomers.
Wilbur Pan, Louis "Lou" Figueroa, Jaime Falco and Anna Braun won school board seats in races against Barbara Reiss, Heather James, Pankaj Goswami and Jack Levitt.
Out of eight candidates who ran for three, three-year seats, Pan, a pediatric oncologist, received the most votes with 7,862 or 17.20% of the count, according to the unofficial results. Figueroa, an educator with long-term experience in both the East Brunswick and Edison districts, came in second at 7,755, or 16.97%, and Falco, an optometrist, garnered the third spot with 7,347 votes, or 16.07%.
Retired East Brunswick music teacher Braun, who ran for a one-year term against Levitt, won with 8,292 votes, or 51.53%. Levitt received 7,760 votes, or 48.22%.
Incumbents Reiss received 5,719 votes (12.51%), while James and Goswami got 5,847 (12.79%) and 2,742 (6%), respectively.
Jennifer Figueroa, who ran on the same ticket as her husband, Lou Figueroa, and Falco, received 6,850 votes (14.99%) while Burhanuddin Danish got 1,429 votes (3.13%).
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