NEWPORT — The next City Council will look a lot like the current one, with five incumbents winning reelection to two-year terms, according to state election results last night.

But one thing voters want changed are aging city roads and sewerage that causes beach closures. They overwhelmingly approved referenda on a $12-million bond to repair roads and a ban on sewer hookups until the city complies for three consecutive months with its state wastewater-discharge permit.

Voters returned Mary C. Connolly, Stephen R. Coyne and Jeanne-Marie Napolitano to their at-large council seats. Stephen C. Waluk, who gave up his Ward 2 seat to run citywide, also won an at-large slot.

Retired Navy officer Justin S. McLaughlin, 63, in his first bid for public office, won Waluk’s seat. He defeated David Dotterer Cullen, 34, owner of a painting company and a graduate student at Salve Regina University, by nearly 400 votes.

Charles Y. Duncan, 70, owner of a local sign business, garnered about 80 more votes than Marvin Abney, who is retired from the Army and now works for the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Duncan defeated Abney in Ward 1 in 2004.

Kathyrn E. Leonard had no opponent for the Ward 3 seat that Colleen McGrath gave up and which Leonard held previously. McGrath launched a low-profile, last minute write-in campaign for an at-large seat. It was unclear how many votes she received.

Three people who have never held elective office in Newport ran for citywide seats and were easily defeated. They were James Dias, a retired Army colonel; Robert T. Oliveira, who lost a bid for School Committee two years ago; and Theodorus Foster Slee, 28, an associate architect.

They were turned back by Napolitano, 56, retired from a family insurance business; Coyne, 41, owner of Cathers & Coyne shoe stores; Connolly, 63, a retired educator; and Waluk, 29, a state policy analyst. Napolitano was the top vote-getter.

In the School Committee races, the only incumbent turned away from office was longtime member David R. Carlin Jr. Incumbents returning for another term are Hugo J. DeAscentis, Jo Eva Gaines, Robert J. Leary, Thomas S. Phelan and Charles Shoemaker, the chairman. Newcomer Thomas P. Galvin won a seat, while Frank E. Coleman Jr. did not. Gaines got the most votes.