NORTH ATTLEBORO - It's official: Less than half of the Representative Town Meeting seats on April's town election ballot have candidates.

While 45 candidates took out nomination papers, only 37 residents returned papers with the required signatures by Tuesday's deadline, making them official candidates for seats on the town's legislature. There will be no contested races so every candidate that returned nomination papers is assured of getting a seat as long as they get at least 25 votes in the town election.

There were 78 seats available at April's town election. Unfilled seats can be filled two ways - write-in candidates that garner at least 25 votes can be elected to the seats or interested individuals can apply for a one-year appointments to the vacant seats, which will be filled when precincts caucus prior to June's town meeting.

The following is a list of the candidates for RTM seats in April's town election:

Precinct 1: Gail and Michael Achin of 22 Fletcher St. and Lionel Addo of 139 East Washington St. are running for three-year terms while Benjamin Gould of 79 Broad St., Mark Gould of 79 Broad St. and William Hare of 15 Prospect St., and Benjamin are running for one-year terms. Precinct 2: Normand Achin of 75 Eddy St., Timothy Atkins of 121 Quail Creek Road, Sandra Coyle of 186 Broadway, Darryl Sakach of 191 Quail Creek Road and Matthew Trowbridge of 57 Johnson St. are running for three-year terms while Walter St. Lawrence of 29 Brandon St. and Richard Peterson of 5 Brandon Street are running for one-year terms.

Precinct 3:. Amanda Adams of 115 Farm Hill Road, Charles Blais of 70 Broadway, Paul Couturier of 80 Broadway and Steven Todaro of 66 High St., are running for three-year terms.

Precinct 4: Donald Pomes of 6 James St. is running for a three-year term.

Precinct 5: Paul Follett of 212 Fisher St. and Leonard Pierce of 538 Mount Hope St. are running for three-year terms.

Precinct 6: Joseph Lurie of 243 Mount Hope St., David MacDonald of 72 Freeman St. and Donald Twedt of 21 Reardon's Field and Linda Weston of 193 Mount Hope St., are running for three-year terms while Roseanne Leavitt of 19 Wamsutta Drive is running for a one-year term.

Precinct 7: Carlo Bertolino of 323 Kelley Blvd. and Diane Finnegan and Francis Finnegan, both of 182 Kelley Blvd. are running for three-year terms.

Precinct 8: Michelle DiRenzo of 2 Walden Lane, Christopher Mantia of 27 George St., William Moffitt of 71 Stoddard Drive and Paula Parker of 74 Laurelwood Drive are running for three-year terms.

Precinct 9: William Landry of 124 Paine Road, Janet and Robert Norton of 46 England Road and Mary Yankee of 224 Cushman Road are running for three-year terms.

AMY DeMELIA can be reached at 508-236-0334 or at ademelia@thesunchronicle.com.