Angela Mancini re-elected English Montreal School Board chair

Incumbent Angela Mancini has hung onto her role as theEnglish Montreal School Board chair.

Mancini, who has had the job since 2007, won with 11,069 votes.

Anne LagacDowsonfollowed with 7,086 votes.

Voter turnout for the EMSBwas up this year,at about 21per cent.

• Quebecers head to the polls to elect school boards
• The race is on to run English Montreal School Board

The EMSB vote was a neck-and-neck battle early on, with Mancini pulling ahead only around 11 p.m. ET.

Mancini said she's happy with the way things turned out.

"Ithink turnout has been tremendous. Ithink it's shown that the English communityis behind our school boards, and Ithink that's a good message to send to our minister," she said.

Mancini's teamwon 8 of the 10 seats on the school board.

The other two seats went to team LagacDowson and anindependent.

The election campaign was mired in controversy. Many English voters were left off the voters' list.Others arrived at polling stations to discover a line-up of 100 people in front of them.