Rep. Pat Jones, D-Mount Vernon, comfortably won re-election to her seat in the Maine House in voting on Tuesday, edging out challenger Clyde Dyar, a Mount Vernon Republican.

Jones won 3,401 votes, or 57 percent, to Dyar's 2,553, earning her first full term in the Statehouse. She won a special election to the House seat in November 2007 after her husband, Deane Jones, died of cancer while in office.

The race was closest in Manchester, where Jones claimed 52 percent of the vote. Jones won by the widest margin in Fayette, where she earned 59 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results.

House District 83 includes Belgrade, Fayette, Manchester, Mount Vernon and Vienna.