Winthrop residents voted by a narrow margin on May 2 to abolish the town’s Board of Selectmen and Town Meeting form of government and replace it with a nine-member Town Council and town manager.

The Town Council, to be elected in November and convene next January, will hire the town manager. Voters will elect eight councillors to four-year terms and one to a two-year term as council president. The council president will have a seat on the School Committee. Six of the other eight councillors will be elected by precinct, and two will be elected at-large.

Currently, the town has a three-member Board of Selectmen and an executive secretary.

Fifty-three percent of the roughly 5,300 residents who voted on the question favored the charter change, which was recommended by a nine-member Charter Commission.

A temporary committee, including representatives from the Board of Selectmen, the School Committee and the Charter Commission, is being established to begin soliciting applications for the town manager job.