SMITHFIELD — When the new Town Council convenes on Tuesday for the first time, Stephen G. Tocco is expected to become president, the top vote getter said last night.

Tocco, who will be the only Democratic veteran on the five-member panel, said that fellow Democrat Stephen R. Archambault will become vice president.

They will succeed, respectively, Richard A. Poirier, the council president who was defeated in last week’s off-year election, and Michael J. Flynn, the vice president, who remains on the council. Democrat Bernard A. Hawkins, who like Archambault is a newcomer, and Ronald F. Manni, a Republican veteran, will fill out the ranks. Councilwoman Maxine A. Cavanagh, a Republican, also lost her seat.

“We’re still trying to seriously digest all of what has happened,” Tocco said of the election that gave control of the council to the Democrats for the first time in four years.

Of his selection as president, Tocco said, “I do have their support,” referring to Archambault and Hawkins.

The council is to be sworn in by Sen. Jack Reed in a ceremony at Town Hall beginning at 6:30 p.m. A reception will follow, then a regular council session will begin at 7:30 p.m .

Tocco said he anticipates the council agenda that evening to be a routine one, mostly renewal of town licenses and similar matters.

“That’s going to pretty much be the extent of it,” he said. “We have to hit the ground running in December, however.”

Archambault is a lawyer with offices in Warwick. He was an intern with the state attorney general’s office in 1999. From 1988 to 1990 he was a legislative assistant intern in the U.S. Senate.

He received a law degree in 2000 from Roger Williams University School of Law; a master’s degree from Salve Regina University in 1996, and a bachelor’s degree from American University in Washington in 1990.

Hawkins is regional manager for the state division of parks and recreation. He graduated from Smithfield High School in 1981 and attended Southern Connecticut State College. Hawkins ran for council unsuccessfully in 2004.

Democrats maintained their hold on the School Committee, which also is expected to reorganize when the new panel meets for the first time on Monday.