Three Democrat incumbents defeated Republican challengers Tuesday in races for four-year terms on the Cheektowaga Town Board.

With most of the vote tallied, the winners bested the GOP candidates by snaring 61 percent of the vote.

The winners are Stanley Kaznowski, 52, the chief financial officer for Curtis Screw in Buffalo; Patricia Jaworowicz, 63, an incumbent since 1982; and James Rogowski, 37, a technology teacher at Lockport High School who just completed his first four-year term.

Defeated were Joseph Karnath, former director of a nonprofit organization; John Kaczorowski, a former autoworker and AFL-CIO union council president; and Roger Heymanowski, former owner of the Barbizon Modeling school, who teaches video production at a local prison.

Meanwhile, a Republican official pointed to solid progress in the largely Democratic town.

John Redman, Republican committee chairman, noted the Town Board recently embraced a Republican call for an end to lifetime health insurance benefits for board members.

“That’s a good first step,” Redman said. “We’re confident that there are other changes in policy that can be made to benefit the taxpayer and thereby make Cheektowaga more attractive to residents and businesses.”

Kaznowski said the change had long been in the works.

“I think the residents realize the Town Board is committed and unified,” he said.

Kaznowski called the victory a sign that voters appreciated the Town Board’s efforts to encourage property upkeep and tear down abandoned houses.