Diane Goddeeris, Nathan Triplett and Roger Peters will join Mayor Pro Tem Vic Loomis and Councilmember Kevin Beard on the East Lansing City Council after the three were elected to four-year terms during Tuesday’s City Council elections.

The Capital Area Transportation Authority millage proposal failed.

About 11 percent of the 29,965 registered voters in East Lansing turned out for the election.

Goddeeris received 28.7 percent of the votes and was followed by Triplett with 26.8 percent and Peters with 24.3 percent.

Beverly Baten, who was first elected to the East Lansing City Council in 1999, received 1,565 votes, or 20.2 percent.

Triplett, 24, and Peters, 59, will serve their first terms on the council and Goddeeris, 52, will serve her first full term. Goddeeris filled the seat left vacant when former Mayor Mark Meadows was elected to the state House of Representatives in 2006.

“It feels good to have the community support for what I’ve already done,” Goddeeris said. “We’ve got to plan as we go forward. It’s about how the council works as a team and the vision they have. I think we’ve got a really good plan here right now.”

Triplett and Peters will be sworn in during a public hearing Nov. 14. Afterward, the councilmembers will appoint the city’s replacement for Mayor Sam Singh, who announced in August that he wouldn’t seek re-election.

Peters and Goddeeris gathered at a mutual friend’s house with Downtown Development Authority member Bob Potvin. The three lived in the same neighborhood about 25 years ago, Peters said. Beard and Singh also waited for the results with the two candidates.

“It’s been frantic for so long — probably the last two and a half months. This has been the first chance for me to really let down,” Peters said of watching the results with family and friends.

Triplett, a legislative aide in the Michigan House of Representatives and graduate student at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy, said he’s excited to bring his fresh voice to the City Council.

“I’m looking forward to getting to work for the people of East Lansing Wednesday when we get sworn in,” Triplett said.

Peters said he was “excited and looking forward to the challenge,” but also highlighted the achievements of Goddeeris and Triplett.

Baten was the 16th person to vote at Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road. This election was different from the previous two she participated in because the candidates were more competitive, she said.

“You had to be more on your toes and ready,” Baten said. “This was different from the other two times because there was more of a campaign and the other two times I ran I didn’t see that push from candidates.

“They were willing to go to the extremes. I think I had the credentials to do it, but apparently voters wanted something different … I had eight good years, and I felt like I contributed in a way that was needed at the time.”