Dracut’s special town election on a $177-million debt exclusion to build a new Campbell School went down to defeat less than a month after comfortably passing at Town Meeting on June 1.

Shortly after polls closed at 8pm tonight, InsideLowell learned that the measure came up on the short end of a tight 1,499-1,400 margin, though results won’t be made official until later in the week.

The proposed project would have replaced the existing Campbell and Greenmont Avenue Schools.