Democrat Mary Ann Ashley won the Canton town supervisor office in a landslide over Republican incumbent David Button.

Ashley pulled in 1,600 votes to Button's 518.

In the town justice race, Republican Michael Morgan narrowly edged past Democrat Christopher Curley, 1,081 votes to 962.

The new town council members will be Democrats James Smith and Tim Danehy. They garnered respective vote tallies of 1,588 and 1,176. Conservative candidate Paul Backus received 797 votes.

The results are unofficial and do not include absentee ballots.

Former village Mayor Mary Ann Ashley, a former Republican, ran as an independent, with the endorsement of the Democratic Party, and has focused on running a “positive” campaign.

Unfortunately for Button, the timing of a recent controversy concerning a salary debacle for the supervisor and his bookkeeper, brought to light a few months before the election, have lead a groundswell of support for Ashley in the recent weeks leading up to the election.

Button, a long-time public servant who also served as village mayor, ran on his accomplishments of keeping taxes low, while stimulating growth in the village with infrastructure improvements and grant acquisition.

Ashley has said she intends to administer the office by building consensus “using a framework of a progressive pathway through a team-based, shared decision-making, comprehensive planning model of benchmarking needs and setting goals.”