History was made Tuesday in the municipal election that saw not one but two women finally get elected to Tarboro Town Council.

It will be a Town Council with some new faces. Four to be exact as three incumbents were defeated and a fourth did not run.

Mayor Donald Morris was unopposed and captured 97 percent of the vote.

Rick Page, the former electric utility director, also was unopposed for the Ward 3 post held by Danny Hayes, a former police chief.

Gerrelene Walker, who lost by 21 votes four years ago, defeated incumbent Buck Price in Ward 1, 117 (52 percent of the vote) to 64 while newcomer John Wooten received 46 votes.

Candis Owens captured 138 votes (51 percent) in Ward 5, ousting incumbent John Jenkins, who had 110 votes (41 percent), former Ward 2 councilman Ray Parrisher got 12 and Dickie Guill 10.

And in Ward 7, newcomer Taro Knight got by incumbent Roy Gray by four votes, 140 to 136.

Results are unofficial until a canvass next week.

"It was an incumbent wave that swept us up," said Gray. "Same thing happened in Princeville (see story elsewhere on this page)."

Knight, 40, had worked on successful Gray campaigns in the past and called the incumbent a friend.

"I feel good,” Knight said. “The differences between us were not that big. I intend to lean on him."

Gray, 56, said he would not ask for a recount.

"Four votes is four votes," he said. "I won my first election by six votes. We did the work we needed to do to win."

Gray was on council from 1990-2002 and was elected by council to his present post in 2008 to fill the unexpired term of David Smoot, who resigned.

Jenkins, 65, stayed at home rather than watch the results get posted at the County Administration Building. He took the defeat hard. He had been on council for three terms.