Johnson said he was confident as he waited for the votes to be tallied.
"The reason why I felt that way was because I gave everything I had in the campaign," Johnson said. "I bared my heart and soul. People know exactly who I am — things that are very personal.
"All day, and I'd say over the past week, I feel like people were seeing who their candidate truly is. I walk the walk. I talk the talk."
Johnson thanked Boskovich for pushing him during a campaign that became divisive at times, at least in terms of the discussion among the candidates' opponents.
"Tony and I have had many conversations, and we'll continue because I'm here for everybody, not just my contingent," Johnson said.
Last year, with two uncontested elections involving incumbents returning to the Select Board and one contested Planning Board race, about 700 ballots were cast in the local election.
On Tuesday, 1,823 votes were cast for a turnout of 38 percent of the town's 4,855 registered voters.
In all the contested races, the ultimate winner claimed victory in all three of the town's voting precincts, though there were some exceptionally close races in individual wards.
In Ward 2, which had the lowest turnout, just three votes separated the three Planning Board candidates, with Lawrence claiming 90 to 88 for Puddester and 87 for Kuttner.
The narrowest margin in the Select Board race came in Ward 1, where Hasty earned 52 percent of the vote, edging Cummings by a margin of 372-338
Townwide, Hasty took 56 percent of the vote, and he was on the edge of his seat until the votes were counted.
"I thought it could go either way," Hasty said. "Albert has a lot of the town name, town recognition. So this was a surprise to me."
Like Johnson, Hasty said he plans to serve all town residents, including those who voted for Cummings.
"I like to think that regardless of who was going to win, we both want what is best for the town," Hasty said. "We might have had different routes to get there. It's definitely in my interest to make sure that those folks who may have found representation in Albert to also, hopefully, find representation in me.
"I don't want to let them down either."
Boskovich is hoping the town can come together, but he expressed some concern that the rifts opened by the spring's campaign will not be healed.
"Jeff and I have talked a lot," Boskovich said. "When we were at the landfill, we talked, probably 24 hours because we did three weekends together. We were very congenial, because we were the gladiators in the ring.
"But it's the supporters that I'm worried about. I'm worried that people are going to be doing their happy dance, that they feel they have a mandate. We've seen that at the national level. And if that happens in this town, this town is a lot worse off than it was before. If we don't learn grace in victory, kindness to our political opponents, this town is going to destroy itself."