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List of close election results

This is a list of close election results on the national level and within administrative divisions. It lists results that have been decided by a margin of less than 1 vote in 1,000 (a margin of less than 0.1 percentage points): single-winner elections where the winning candidate was less than 0.1 ahead of the second-placed candidate, as well as party-list elections where a party was less than 0.1% short of the electoral threshold or two lists that obtained seats are less than 0.1 Percentage points apart. This list is limited to elections in which at least 1,000 votes were cast.

To provide context, the section on "Distribution of elections" shows the distribution of winning margins in different areas. Depending on the area, from 1 in 40 to 1 in 500 election contests is decided by less than 1 vote in 1,000.

According to a 2001 study of state and federal elections in the United States between 1898 and 1992, "one of every 100,000 votes cast in U.S. elections, and one of every 15,000 votes cast in state elections, "mattered" in the sense that they were cast for a candidate that officially tied or won by one vote."[1]

While not an election, a member of Congress once owed his seat to the drawing of lots. In 1902, after more than 7,000 votes at three conventions, the Democrats were unable to decide among three candidates for nomination to Texas's 12th congressional district. Two candidates put their names in a hat, drew one out and the loser agreed to withdraw and support the winner. Oscar W. Gillespie won the game of lots, the nomination and the following general election, serving in Congress for eight years.[2]

There are a variety of ways in which tied elections are settled. Some are decided by drawing lots or other games of chances. Others lead to a runoff or special election. Still others are decided by some third party such as the legislature or a high-ranking elected official. In one case in Waynetown, Indiana, in 1891, two candidates for town treasurer agreed to settle their 339–339 tie by a foot-race.[3] However, despite some fictionalized accounts, the town board overruled the agreement and determined that then-incumbent William Simms would remain in office for another term, and the proposed race never occurred.[4]

Table of close national and state elections edit

Tied elections edit

Year Country /
Region
Election District/Race Total votes
cast for winner
Description
1985     Victorian Legislative Council Nunawading 54,821 Bob Ives tied with Rosemary Varty, but won the seat with a vote cast by the returning officer, who drew Ives' name from a hat. Adding to the drama, the seat decided control of the Legislative Council. Before Ives could take his seat, the result was subsequently voided by a Court of Disputed Returns on the grounds that 44 votes had been incorrectly excluded from the count, and the court ordered a by-election. Varty then won the by-election.[5]
2011   Swiss federal Ticino 23,979[6] Marco Romano and Monica Duca Widmer both had 23,979 votes.[7] Initially, a computer program was used to draw lots and Widmer was declared the winner. Following complaints and appeals, the Federal Supreme Court ruled against the Canton's decision to use a computer program for the lottery and ordered new manual lottery. This was conducted on November 25 and Marco Romano emerged as the winner.[8][9] (There were 760,995 votes cast in total for 8 seats. The PPD won two seats. Romano and Widmer, both of the PPD, were tied for the PPD's second seat.)
1994     National Assembly of Quebec Saint-Jean 16,536 Incumbent Liberal Michel Charbonneau tied with Parti Québécois candidate Roger Paquin. Consequently, a new vote was held 42 days later, which Paquin won by 532 votes.[10]
1971     Virginia House of Delegates District 19 16,410 The initial vote count had Republican William Moss ahead of Democrat Jim Burch by 1 vote for the sixth at-large seat in what was then a six-member district. But then a three-judge circuit court ruled that one of the ballots was "defaced" because the names of two candidates were crossed out with the notation "Do not desire to vote for these two". They did this even though the person who cast this vote (which was known because it was a signed absentee ballot) testified that he intended to vote for Moss. Throwing out the ballot created a tied vote.[11] The names of the two candidates were placed in sealed envelopes, and a blindfolded Elections Board chairman plucked one from a silver loving cup. Moss won.[12] Two years later Moss would lose re-election by 0.03% of the vote.[13]
2003     National Assembly of Quebec Champlain 11,852 PQ candidate Noëlla Champagne tied with Liberal Pierre Brouillette. Consequently, a new vote was held 36 days later, which Champagne won by 642 votes.[14]
2017     Virginia House of Delegates District 94 11,608 The initial vote count had incumbent Republican David Yancey ahead by 13 votes. After a canvas that included provisional ballots, Yancey's lead was cut to 10 votes.[15] Following a recount, Yancey trailed Democratic challenger Shelly Simonds by one vote out of 23,215 cast.[16][17] After review by a three-judge panel appointed by the Virginia Supreme Court, a disputed ballot that had been excluded as an overvote was instead counted for Yancey and the race was certified as a tie with the candidates to draw lots to determine a winner.[18][16] The drawing of lots was later postponed after Simonds asked a state court to reconsider the disputed ballot.[19] On January 4, 2018, the names of each candidate was placed inside a film canister, both canisters were placed in a bowl and one canister was drawn at random by State Board of Elections chairman James Alcorn. David Yancey won the draw and the seat, giving Republicans control of the House 51–49.[20] Had Simonds won instead, a 50–50 split would have prompted a power sharing arrangement between the two major parties.[21] In 2019, the two met in a rematch in a redrawn district and Simonds won.
2010     Massachusetts House of Representatives 6th Worcester district 6,587 After Peter J. Durant was initially declared the winner by 1 vote, judge Richard T. Tucker ruled that one absentee ballot that was initially discarded was to be counted for Geraldo Alicea creating an exact tie.[22] Six months later, a special election was held where Durant beat Alicea by 56 votes.[23]
1963     House of Commons of Canada Pontiac—Témiscamingue 6,448 Paul Martineau (Progressive Conservative) and Paul-Oliva Goulet (Liberal) each received 6,448 votes in the Québec electoral district of Pontiac—Témiscamingue. Because the vote was tied, the returning officer cast his vote for Martineau.[24]
1988     Massachusetts Senate Democratic Primary Plymouth District 4,543 George F. Buckley and Michael Creedon tied, but Creedon secured the nomination and later the seat.[25]
1996     South Dakota House of Representatives District 12 4,191 Four candidates Democrats John R. McIntyre and Dick Casey; and, Republicans Hal Wick and Judy Rost were contesting two seats. In the initial tally, they had respectively 4195 (24.73%), 3889 (22.93%), 4191 (24.71%), and 4687 (27.63%) votes (16,962 total votes). McIntyre was initially declared to have been elected by a four-vote margin. Wick petitioned for a recount in accordance with SDCL 12-21-12. The recount was conducted in the presence of representatives for both candidates. The results were certified on December 4, 1996, and showed that Wick had been elected by one vote: 4191 (24.71%), 3891 (22.94%), 4192 (24.71%), 4689 (27.64%) (16,963 total votes). The South Dakota Supreme Court examined several ballots and invalidated one vote for Wick. The House then voted, mostly along party lines, 46–20 to seat Wick.[26][27][28] Remarkably, two years later, McIntyre and Wick would again tie (at least on the initial count).
1999     Nova Scotia House of Assembly Shelburne 3,206 Progressive Conservative Cecil O'Donnell tied with Liberal Clifford Huskilson (3,206–3,206).[29] The returning officer broke the tie by pulling Mr. O'Donnell's name from a box.[30]
1886   House of Commons of the United Kingdom Ashton-under-Lyne 3,049 Conservative incumbent John Edmund Wentworth Addison and Liberal challenger (and English cricketer[31]) Alexander Butler Rowley were tied, 3,049–3,049. The Returning Officer (and also mayor[32][33][34]) James Walker[35] broke the tie by casting a vote for Addison.[36][37][38][39]
1978     Rhode Island Senate Senatorial District 29 4,110 Both Russell and Flynn had exactly 4,110 votes in the general election. On Jan 9th, 1979, a special election was held where Flynn beat Russell 2,546–2,038.[40]
1980     New Hampshire Senate Republican Primary District 16 2,438 Incumbent Frank Wageman found himself in a tied election after a hospitalization left him unable to vote in the election. Two numbered balls were placed in a black leather bottle, and the first one to roll out was the winner. Wageman's ball came out first and challenger Eleanor P. Podles demanded a recount that did not change the outcome.[41] Podles won a rematch in 1982.
1994     Wyoming House of Representatives District 21 1,941 Republican Randall Luthi and independent candidate Larry Call each received 1,941 votes in a state House race in northern Lincoln County. On live TV (NBC's Today Show) Secretary of State Kathy Karpan drew a ping pong ball with Luthi's name out of Governor Sullivan's rumpled cowboy hat.[42][43]
1826     United States House of Representatives Pennsylvania's 2nd District 1,597 Adams Federalist John Sergeant and Jacksonian Henry Horn tied at 1,597, with a 3rd candidate getting 1,391 votes. The governor treated it as a vacancy, but did not call a new election until both Sergeant and Horn relinquished their claims. Sergeant defeated former Representative Joseph Hemphill in the special election a year later and was seated. Residents of the district contested the election, arguing that ballots were found that would've swung the regular election to Horn, but the House dismissed the contest because Horn had voluntarily relinquished his rights.[44]
2006     Alaska House of Representatives Democratic Primary District 37 1,534 After a recount, a state Supreme Court challenge and wrangling over five disputed ballots the race was decided by a coin toss, using a special coin with a walrus on one side and the seal of Alaska on the other.[45] Bryce Edgmon, the winner of the coin toss, went on to be Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives.[46]
1887   House of Commons of Canada Joliette 1,532 Conservative Édouard Guilbault tied Liberal F. Neveu, but won the seat after the deciding vote was cast by the returning officer.[47]
1896   House of Commons of Canada Assiniboia West 1,502 Conservative Nicholas Flood Davin tied independent John K. McInnes. The deciding vote in Davin's favor was cast by the returning officer after the two candidates tied.[48]
2015   Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island Vernon River-Stratford 1,173 On Declaration Day, Mary Ellen McInnis and Alan McIsaac had 1,172–1,174 votes. McInnis filed a petition for a judicial recount. Provincial Court Judge John Douglas discovered that a vote for Ms. McInnis was mistakenly put in the pile for Mr. McIsaac. The result of the recount was thus that they were tied 1,173–1,173. Pursuant to section 102 of the Election Act, the toss of a coin was completed by the Returning Officer. The results of the coin toss were in favour of Alan McIsaac.[49][50][51][52][53]
2022   New Hampshire House of Representatives Strafford District 8 970 The November 2022 election to this seat in the city of Rochester ended in a tie of 970-970 between Democrat Chuck Grassie and Republican David Walker. Despite rumors that the Republican-controlled state House would vote to seat Walker anyways, a special election was called for February 21.[54] In the end, Chuck Grassie won with over 55% of the vote, a 4% over-performance for Democrats.[55][56]

List of close election results in single-winner, majoritarian and STV races edit

Year Country /
Region
Election District/Race Margin
(%)
Margin
(votes)
Total votes
cast for winner
Description
1974     United States Senate New Hampshire 0.000901% 2 110,926[57] On election day, Republican Louis Wyman won with a margin of just 355 votes out of more than 220,000. His opponent John A. Durkin then won the recount by 10 votes. After a second recount, Wyman won by just 2 votes. The Democratic-controlled Senate at first agreed to seat Wyman, who served the last 3 days of Noris Cotton's term, but began to deliberate again when the new Senate took office. When the Senate deadlocked for months, Durkin agreed to Wyman's proposal for a new election. The Senate declared the seat vacant and the governor appointed Cotton to hold the seat for six weeks until a special election on September 16. Durkin won the special by 27,000 votes.[58]
1839     Massachusetts gubernatorial Governor of Massachusetts 0.00098% 1 51,034[59] Marcus Morton and the incumbent Whig Edward Everett received 51,034–50,725 votes respectively, with the remaining 307 votes went to scattering. The constitution of Massachusetts required a candidate to receive a majority of votes cast in order to win the office outright; otherwise, the legislature would have the authority to choose among the leading candidates. Morton exceeded this threshold by just 1 vote (50% of the 102,066 ballots cast), and had he not, the Whig controlled legislature would have been allowed to select the governor. The legislature could successfully deprive Morton of a majority if it disqualified the return from the town of Westfield. There was, moreover, an argument for doing so: the Westfield return was irregular and improper under the laws of the state because the attestation of its authenticity was not under seal. Instead, the return had been sealed first, and only afterward affixed with an attestation from the relevant local official. Despite pressure from partisans to contest this result, Everett refused. Historian and former Ohio Solicitor General Edward B. Foley notes: "In the annals of American history there is not an equivalent example of a candidate in a major statewide election willing to forgo a victory so tantalizingly within reach based on, first, such a narrow margin and, second, such a readily available legal argument for invalidating disputed ballots."[60]
2020     United States House of Representatives Iowa's 2nd District 0.00152% 6 196,964 In the House election, Democrat Rita Hart lost by only 6 votes to Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks. Unofficial results shortly after election day showed Miller-Meeks with a 282 vote lead. Official results, which included late-arriving absentee ballots and corrected canvassing errors, narrowed that lead to 44. A recount narrowed that vote still further to 6 votes. Hart chose not to appeal the election in the "contest court", arguing that Iowa law didn't allow enough time as from the November 30 certification date, the court would've had only 8 days to organize and then carry out the recount.[61] Instead she contested the election in the House of Representatives, asking for another recount, on the grounds that 22 votes were erroneously excluded due to poll worker error (and Iowa law had no way to remedy this) and that the recount was not done uniformly over the district.[62] Miller-Meeks was provisionally sworn in and requested the House Committee on Administration dismiss the contest, but that request was denied. On March 31, after several Democratic House members publicly stated that they wouldn't vote to change the result, Hart withdrew her contest.[63] It was the 2nd closest House race in US history and the closest since 1824.
1984     United States House of Representatives Indiana's 8th District 0.00171% 4 116,645 The initial count showed that Democrat Frank McCloskey had won by 72 votes, but Indiana's Republican Secretary of State refused to certify him pending a legal challenge by his Republican challenger Rick McIntyre.[64] After a tabulation error was found a month later McIntyre took the lead by 34 votes and was certified by the Secretary, even though a recount was on-going.[65] When the House opened it chose to seat neither person, but to pay them as though they were both members. The statewide recount was completed in late January and gave McIntyre a 418 vote lead, but against the Democratic-controlled House chose not to seat McIntyre, against the wishes of Republicans.[66] The House conducted their own recount, in which they made several controversial decisions, and seated McCloskey after declaring him the winner by just four votes. Republicans, who sought to declare the election void and call for a special election, staged a procedural protest and a walk out to protest what they viewed as a stolen seat.[67][68]
2013   Australian Senate Western Australia 0.002125% 1 23,532[69] Before senate electoral reform in 2016, the Australian senate was elected by a series of complex preference deals. At one point the next party to be eliminated was between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the Australian Christians. The margin was effectively one vote at that point in the count, and depending on which party was ahead either the Labor Party and PUP or the Sports Party and the Greens would have been elected.

As the recount was taking place it became apparent that there were some missing ballots, which was greater than the margin, so the election was voided and a re-run was conducted in 2014.[70]

2023     Caddo Parish sheriff Sheriff of Caddo Parish 0.002312% 1 21,624 In the runoff election, Henry Whitehorn, a Democrat, defeated Republican John Nickelson by one vote. After a court challenge, the election was reran; Whitehorn won again with a larger margin.[71]
1910     United States House of Representatives New York's 36th District 0.00242% 1 20,685 Charles Bennett Smith, a Democrat, defeated the incumbent, Representative De Alva S. Alexander, a Republican, by one vote, 20,685 to 20,684.[72]
1988     Massachusetts Governor's Council Democratic Primary 3rd District 0.00340% 1 14,716 Herbert L. Connolly lost to Robert B. Kennedy by one vote, and it was his own. Connolly arrived at his precinct a few minutes after the polls closed and wasn't able to vote. Kennedy won the following general.[73][74]
2003     Russian legislative Sverdlovsk Oblast District 163 0.00342% 5 73,083 Incumbent Georgy Leontyev held the seat by five votes,[75] despite allegations of vote manipulations, later rejected by the Supreme Court [76]
1919   Australian House of Representatives Ballarat 0.00369% 1 13,569 Edwin Kerby defeated incumbent MP Charles McGrath by a single vote. The result was voided by the Court of Disputed Returns, which criticised the "almost incredible carelessness" of the electoral officers. McGrath won the subsequent by-election.[77]
1997   United Kingdom general Winchester 0.00383% 2 26,100 In the General Election, Mark Oaten led Gerry Malone by 2 votes (26,100–26,098).[78] A total of 55 ballot papers were excluded from the count for want of official mark, of which 18 were votes in favor of Oaten and 22 in favor of Malone. Therefore, Malone would have had a majority of 2 votes had they been included in the count. On hearing an Election Petition in the High Court on 6 October 1997 Lord Justice Brooke and Mr. Justice Gage ordered that there should be a fresh election. The petition also stated that four voters cast tendered ballots after claiming to have been impersonated, but the impersonators could not be found and the allegation was not pursued.[79] In the subsequent by-election, Oaten easily beat Malone (37,006–15,450).
1992   Philippine Senate At-large 0.00398% 966 3,964,966 The Philippine Senate is elected via multiple non-transferable vote. The 24th placed candidate, Butz Aquino of LDP, edged out Alfredo Bengzon of Lakas to win out the last Senate seat.
2023     Buenos Aires Province local Pinamar Partido 0.00414% 1 8,115[80] Juan Ibarguren (PRO-JxC) won the mayorship against Gregorio Estanga (PJ-UP). An initial lead of 19 votes was reduced to a single vote after Estanga asked for a vote recount.[81]
1882     United States House of Representatives Virginia's 1st District 0.00476% 1 10,505 The initial tally had incumbent Democrat George T. Garrison up 70 votes on Readjuster challenger Robert M. Mayo. The Readjuster-controlled State Board of Canvassers then threw out the votes of Gloucester County and Hog Island precinct (Garrison had received all 14 votes from Hog Island). The new totals then had Mayo up one: 10,505–10,504. (A third candidate, the Republican John W. Woltz, received 168 votes).[82] Mayo was seated and served for a little over a year, but Garrison contested the result. The Committee of Elections then chose to accept the Gloucester County and Hog Island ballots and the House voted unanimously to seat Garrison.[83]
1868     United States House of Representatives North Carolina's 7th District 0.004841% 1 10,329 Plato Durham (D) was initially declared elected over Alexander H. Jones (R) with an 18-vote majority: 10,347–10,329. When Republicans began to complain of fraud, the votes were sent to General Canby at Charleston, who threw out enough for Jones to defeat Durham. Jones was then elected by 1 vote, 10,329–10,328.[84][85][86][87][88]
2004     Washington gubernatorial Governor of Washington 0.004842% 133 1,373,361[89] Democrat Christine Gregoire defeated Republican Dino Rossi, following two recounts, after the initial count and first recount showed Rossi as the winner.
1931   United Kingdom general Ilkeston 0.00569% 2 17,587 A.J. Flint (National Labour) gained the seat from George Oliver (Labour). After the polls closed it became clear that the Ilkeston election was very close. There were four recounts overnight, and the Returning Officer decided to call a halt in the early hours to return later in the day. At the end of the fifth recount, the Returning Officer declared Flint elected by a majority of two votes over the sitting Labour MP. This result remains the joint smallest majority in any individual constituency election since universal suffrage.[90]
2002   Irish general Limerick West 0.00584% 1 8,564[91][92] Going into the fourth (and final) count, sitting Fine Gael TD Dan Neville trailed his party colleague Michael Finucane, also an outgoing TD, 7,862 to 7,867 in the race for the third and final seat. He picked up 702 votes transferred from the eliminated candidates, six more than his opponent, to win by one vote. Finucane requested a recount, but when it became clear that the margin of his defeat would only increase, he requested the returning officer to terminate the recount, thus leaving the official margin of defeat at one vote. "I am happy enough with the findings and I accept it. Democracy has spoken and I am sure there are many people out there feeling sorry at this stage that they didn't vote for me to tip me over the line."[93][94]
1854     United States House of Representatives Illinois' 7th District 0.00592% 1 8,452 On the initial tally, incumbent Democrat James C. Allen was ahead of challenger Republican William B. Archer by one vote: 8452–8451.

Archer contested. Livingston precinct had initially certified Allen and Archer's votes as 47–100 (in that precinct). But they later certified that they had made a mistake and the vote (in that precinct) should instead have been 46–102. In which case the overall vote should have been 8,451–8,453.

The Committee of Elections concluded that Allen had won by at least 1 and probably 2 votes and recommended that he be seated. However, the House voted 94–90 that Allen was not qualified and also voted 91–89 that Archer would not be seated either. The seat was thus vacated.[95][96]

A special election in 1856 was a rematch between Allen and Archer, and Allen soundly defeated Archer 13,081–10,136.[97]

2000   South Korean legislature Gwangju 0.00614% 3 16,675 GNP Park Hyuk-kyu defeated MDP Moon Hak-jin by an official tally of 3-vote difference.[98]
1966   United Kingdom general Peterborough 0.00626% 3 23,944 Conservative Party incumbent Sir Harmar Nicholls defeated Labour Party challenger Michael Ward 23,944–23,941. Ward would again challenge and lose in 1970 and Feb 1974, but would win in Oct 1974.
1847     United States House of Representatives Indiana's 6th District 0.0067% 1 7,455 Whig George G. Dunn defeated Democrat David M. Dobson 7,455–7,454.[99]
2017   United Kingdom general North East Fife 0.00727% 2 13,743 Stephen Gethins of the Scottish National Party saw off a challenge by Elizabeth Riches of the Liberal Democrats to retain the seat of former leader Menzies Campbell.[100]
1962     Minnesota gubernatorial Governor of Minnesota 0.00734% 91 619,842 The vote count after election day had Governor Elmer L. Andersen in the lead by 142 votes. Then-Lieutenant Governor Karl Rolvaag went to court and won the right for a recount.[101] After the recount, it was determined that Rolvaag of the DFL had defeated Andersen, Republican, by 91 votes out of over 1.2 million cast. Rolvaag collected 619,842 votes to Andersen's 619,751.
2020     North Carolina Judicial Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court 0.00744% 401 2,695,951 Following a count, recount and hand-to-eye recount in 1% of precincts, Incumbent Chief Justice Cheri Beasley was defeated by Justice Paul Newby. The result meant that Republicans won all 8 statewide judicial races in the 2020 general election.[102]
1916     United States House of Representatives Iowa's 11th District 0.00768% 4 26,033 In the initial vote count, the sitting member Republican George C. Scott won by a majority of 131 votes, which Thomas J. Steele contested, alleging failure to count votes cast for the contestant and illegal counting of votes for the contestee. After a series of recounts, during which the lead switched back and forth and the contest was even tied at one point, the tally changed to 26,033–26,029 and after some legal wrangling (about lost ballots and votes by Iowa National Guardsmen serving at the Texas border), Scott was declared elected by the Democratically-controlled House.[103]
1991     Virginia House of Delegates District 53 0.00770% 1 6,493 After a recount, Jim Scott won by a single vote, earning him the nickname "Landslide Jim".[104]
2018     Kentucky House of Representatives 13th Representative District 0.0079% 1 6,319 In the initial count, Democrat Jim Glenn defeated Republican incumbent DJ Johnson by 1 vote, which was confirmed by a recanvass. Johnson filed for a recount, and Glenn was seated on January 8, 2019. The House later ordered another recount which was carried out over the weekend of January 30.[105][106] Following that recount, Glenn emerged as the winner by 3 votes, but then the County Board of Electors voted to reinstate one of the votes taken from Johnson earlier in the day and later to count five of 17 rejected absentee ballot. The result was a 6,323-6,323 tie.[107][108] On February 8, 2019, when Glenn threatened to sue if a coin toss were held and he lost, Johnson withdrew his challenge, thus settling the election.[109]
2014     North Carolina District Court District 5 0.00813% 5 30,746 Lindsey McKee Luther defeated Kent Harrell for North Carolina District Court, District 5 by five votes: 30,746–30,741.[110]
1974   United Kingdom general Carmarthen 0.00851% 3 17,165 Labour Party incumbent Gwynoro Jones defeated Plaid Cymru candidate Gwynfor Evans 17,165–17,162.[111] Jones had also beaten Evans in 1970, but would lose to Evans in Oct 1974.
2002     Washington House of Representatives Republican Primary 26th Legislative District 0.00852% 1 5,870 Ed Mitchell defeated Kevin Entze by one vote: 5,870–5,869.[112][113] Adding insult to injury, one of Entze's friends admitted that they never got their ballot mailed. "He left his ballot on his kitchen counter and it never got sent out," Entze said.[114] Mitchell went on to narrowly lose the general election.[115]
1912     Kansas gubernatorial Governor of Kansas 0.00866% 29 167,437 George H. Hodges defeated the popular Republican Arthur Capper by a razor-thin margin of 29 votes out of 359,684 cast.[116][117][118]
1948     United States Senate Democratic Primary Runoff Texas 0.00880% 87 494,191 Lyndon B. Johnson is declared the winner over Coke R. Stevenson despite suspicion about 202 votes reported six days after the election from Precinct 13 of Jim Wells County.
1996     Vermont Senate Rutland County 0.00911% 2 10,978[119] There were six candidates for the three Rutland County Senate seats. On the night of the election, John H. Bloomer, Jr. and Cheryl M. Hooker received the first and second highest vote totals. Hull Maynard received the third highest total with 10,952 votes and Thomas Macaulay received the fourth highest total with 10,934 votes.

Macaulay petitioned for a recount, whereupon the Rutland Superior Court determined that Maynard still beat Macaulay by two votes: 10,978–10,976. Macaulay's petition for further relief was dismissed by the Senate.[120][121][122]

2000     United States presidential Florida 0.00921% 537 2,912,790 Republican George W. Bush was ahead of Democrat Al Gore after the initial count by 1,784 votes. After a mandatory statewide recount his lead was cut to 327.[123] After military and overseas ballots were added in, his lead increased to 930.[124] An additional hand recount was halted by the United States Supreme Court which resulted in the certified margin. Florida was the tipping point state for Bush's presidential victory.
2001   Italian Senate Marino 0.00929% 14 62,330 Olive Tree candidate Severino Lavagnini [it] was elected but the defeated House of Freedoms candidate won a seat via levelling seats.
1982     New Hampshire Senate District 8 0.00934% 1 5,352 Incumbent George Wiggins (R) defeated Fred Belair (D) by 1 vote.[125]
2010   United Kingdom general Fermanagh and South Tyrone 0.00939% 4 21,304 Michelle Gildernew (Sinn Féin) defeated independent Rodney Connor.[126]
2022     Connecticut House of Representatives District 81 0.00944% 1 10,593 Democrat Chris Poulos defeated Republican Tony Morrison by 1 vote.[127]
2022     California State Senate District 16 0.009495% 13 68,461 Democratic incumbent Melissa Hurtado defeated Republican David Shepard by 13 votes.[128]
1970     Missouri House of Representatives District 116 0.01037% 1 4,819 Both the initial count and a recount showed that incumbent Gus Salley (R-Warsaw) had defeated Morran D. Harris (D-Osceola), though a clerical error cost Salley 100 votes, indicating the real result was not nearly as close.[1] Harris brought the case to the House Election Committee to decide, but they chose not to overturn the results.[129]
1832     United States presidential Maryland 0.01044% 4 19,160 National Republican Henry Clay carried Maryland by four votes over Democratic President Andrew Jackson, but this is trivial since all of the electors were chosen based on the outcome in four districts. Had Jackson won the statewide vote it wouldn't have changed the electoral college vote.[130]
1910   United Kingdom general Exeter 0.0105% 1 4,777 Henry Duke (Conservative), the incumbent at the time of the general election, re-gained the seat from Harold St Maur (Liberal) on an election petition in 1911. The court changed the original result (under which the Liberal had won by four votes). The revised result was the smallest numerical majority in a UK Parliamentary election in the twentieth century.[131]
2015     Mississippi House of Representatives District 79 0.0109% 1 4,585 After Democratic incumbent Blaine Eaton tied Republican Mark Tullos with 4,589 votes each, he won re-election by drawing the long straw.[132] However, Tullos asked the State House to review the results, which they did, resulting in them throwing out five affidavit ballots for Eaton. The ballots were cast by people who had moved within 30 days prior to the election and hadn't updated their address. The vote that seated Tullos was largely a party-line vote and gave Republicans a super-majority.[133] Which five ballots were invalidated was never publicly stated, but they were all for Eaton and so the committee stopped evaluation the votes because even if the other four were for Tullos and also invalid, Tullos would still win by 1 vote. The final official count is unknown, and the count here is based on that decision.[134]
2022     Arizona general Arizona Attorney General 0.01116% 280 1,254,809 Democrat Kris Mayes originally defeated Republican Abraham Hamadeh by 511 votes, but after a recount, her lead narrowed to 280 votes.[135]
2001   Cape Verdean presidential President of Cape Verde 0.0112% 17 75,828[136] Pedro Pires (African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde) defeated Carlos Veiga (Movement for Democracy) in the second round of the election after neither won more than 50% in the first round.[137]
1924   United Kingdom general Leeds, West 0.0114% 3 13,057 Labour Party candidate Thomas Stamford defeated Conservative Party candidate A.F.G. Renton 13,057–13,054. This was the lowest margin of victory in a Leeds parliamentary election.[138]
1908     United States House of Representatives Massachusetts's 10th District 0.0121% 4 16,533[139] Representative Joseph F. O'Connell, a Democrat, defeated J. Mitchel Galvin, a Republican, by four votes, 16,553 to 16,549.[140] The record does not disclose the official returns, but a recount before a bipartisan board under the laws of Massachusetts gave O'Connell 16,553 votes, Galvin 16,549 votes, and two other candidates 1,380 and 1,187 votes, respectively, a plurality of 4 votes for Galvin, the sitting Member.[141]
1923   United Kingdom general Devon, Tiverton 0.0122% 3 12,303 Liberal Party incumbent Francis Dyke Acland defeated Conservative Party candidate Gilbert John Acland-Troyte 12,303–12,300. Acland had also defeated Acland-Troyte in the by-election earlier that same year, but Acland-Troyte would defeat Acland in 1924.[142]
1972     Canadian federal Ontario 0.0123% 4 16,328 Liberal incumbent Norman Cafik defeated Progressive Conservative Frank Charles McGee.[143] A PC win in this district would have resulted in a 108–108 tie with the Liberals in the overall seat count.
2018   Italian Chamber of Deputies Guidonia Montecelio 0.01269% 19 55,360 M5S candidate Sebastiano Cubeddu [it] defeated CDX candidate Barbara Saltamartini.
2008     United States Senate Minnesota 0.01287% 312 1,212,629 After the first count, Norm Coleman edged out Al Franken by 215 votes, but following a state mandated recount, Al Franken defeated Norm Coleman by 225.[144] Coleman contested the recount, after which Franken's lead grew to 312. After the Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously rejected Coleman's appeals, he conceded the race to Franken on June 30, 2009, 238 days after the election.[145]
1929   United Kingdom general Cheshire, Northwich 0.01292% 4 15,477 In this three-way race, Conservative Party incumbent Lord Colum Crichton-Stuart defeated Labour Party candidate Mrs. Barbara Ayrton-Gould 15,477–15,473. Chrichton-Stuart also defeated Mrs. Gould in 1924 and 1931.[146]
1994     United States House of Representatives Connecticut's 2nd district 0.0133% 21 79,188 In this three-way race between Democrat Sam Gejdenson, Republican Edward Munster, and Connecticut Party candidate David Bingham, the initial official tally was 79,169–79,167–27,729 (186,065 total votes).[147] Following a recount, Gejdenson and Munster were 79,160–79,156 with 186,030 total votes cast. The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled instead that the correct final tally was 79,188–79,167, awarding the seat to Gejdenson.[148] (However the Court did not mention what the correct total number of votes cast was.) Munster originally contested the election in the Republican-controlled House, but withdrew his contest citing the expense and time it would take.[149]
1964     Selangor State Legislative Assembly Kepong 0.0134% 2 7,487 Tan Chee Khoon, president of the Labour Party of Selangor, defeated the incumbent Chan Keong Hon of the Malaysian Chinese Association by two votes.[150] At the time Chan was a member of the state executive council.
2016     Vermont Senate Democratic Primary Washington County District 0.0135% 1 3,709 Superior Court Judge Timothy Tomasi determined that Francis K. Brooks defeated fourth-place finisher Ashley Hill by one vote in the Democratic primary for the three-member at-large Washington County district, 3,709 to 3,708.[151] The victory hinged on a disputed ballot from Worcester that Tomasi determined contained a vote for Brooks, but not one for Hill.[151] Brooks went on to finish third in the general election that fall, unseating longtime incumbent Republican Bill Doyle by 191 votes.[152]
1968     South Australian House of Assembly Seat of Millicent 0.0138% 1 3,635[153] On 2 March 1968, Martin Cameron contested the seat of Millicent for the House of Assembly, standing against the sitting member, and minister in the Labor Cabinet, Des Corcoran. Narrowly losing the seat by one vote (3635–3634), the Liberal and Country League challenged the decision and the election was referred to the South Australian Court of Disputed Returns. The court ordered a by-election, which was held on 22 June. This was won comfortably by Corcoran (3994–3564), the Dunstan-led Australian Labor Party running the campaign on electoral reform.[154]
1930   Canadian federal Yamaska 0.0143% 1 3,505 Liberal incumbent Aimé Boucher defeated Conservative Paul-François Comtois.[155] The riding result was later declared void, and Boucher won the by-election in 1933 by 84 votes (0.1%).
1968   Canadian federal Leeds 0.01478% 4 13,536 Progressive Conservative Desmond Code defeated Liberal incumbent John Matheson.[156]
1945   United Kingdom general Worcester 0.01479% 4 13,523 In this three-way race, Conservative Party candidate George Ward defeated Labour Party/Co-operative Party candidate J. Evans 13,523–13,519.[157]
2020     Queensland Legislative Assembly Bundaberg 0.0148% 9 30,287 Australian Labor Party candidate Tom Smith won the seat, unseating Liberal National Party MP David Batt, by just 9 votes, after distribution of minor candidate preferences. The margin had been initially reported as 11 votes, but was reduced to 9 votes after a formal recount.[158]
1949   Canadian federal Annapolis—Kings 0.0152% 4 13,202 Liberal Angus Alexander Elderkin defeated Progressive Conservative incumbent George Nowlan.[159]
2020     Florida State Senate District 37 0.01529% 32 104,630 After the initial tally, challenger Ileana Garcia led incumbent Jose Javier Rodriguez by 21 votes. An automatic hand recount extended that lead to 32 votes. The race was marred by fraud as a 3rd party candidate, also with the last name Rodriquez, received more than 6000 votes after being funded by a mysterious donor who funded an ad campaign that seemed designed to confuse voters.[160] A few months after the election the candidate, Alex Rodríguez, pleaded guilty to accepting illegal campaign donations and lying on campaign documents and agreed to testify against former Sen. Frank Artiles who had been charged with felony campaign fraud charges in March 2021.[161]
1968     Wisconsin House of Representatives District 25 0.01533% 2 6,523 Official count showed a margin of 3 vote for Joseph L. Looby (D) over Wilmer R. Waters (R), but it was 1 after a recount. A case was filed with the circuit court, where the judge declared the margin was two votes. An election committee investigated, but could make no proclamation of the true margin. After Waters appealed to the Republican controlled assembly, it voted unanimously to seat Looby.[1][162]
2002     Connecticut House of Representatives District 65 0.0155% 1 3,236 Republican Anne Ruwet defeated Democrat John S. Kovaleski by one vote (3,236–3,235).[163]
1922     United States House of Representatives New York's 21st District 0.0156% 10 32,089 Sitting Member Royal H. Weller had been returned by an official plurality of 245 votes, which the contestant Martin C. Ansorge contested. Following a recount, the tally was 32,089–32,079 and Weller was declared elected.[164]
1964   United Kingdom general Brighton Kemptown 0.0157% 7 22,308 Labour Party challenger Dennis Hobden defeated incumbent Conservative Party David James 22,308–22,301.[165]
2022   2022 North Carolina state legislature Republican primary North Carolina House of Representatives District 115 0.0159% 1 3,146 After a hand-eye recount that added one vote to his total, Pratik Bhakta defeated Sherry M. Higgins.[166]
1870     United States House of Representatives Indiana's 4th District 0.0159% 4 12,561 Republican Jeremiah M. Wilson defeated Democrat David S. Gooding by 4 votes: 12561–12557.[167] Gooding contested. The Committee's majority report gave Wilson a "clear legal majority of 8", while the minority report gave Gooding a majority of 17. The US House then voted 105–64 (71 abstentions) "on strictly party lines" to reject the minority report, accept the majority report, and thereby seat Wilson.[168][169][170]
1950     Maryland Senate Garrett County 0.0162% 1 3,080 Republican incumbent Neil C. Fraley defeated Democratic challenger Bernard I. Gonder by one vote: 3,080–3,079.[171][172][173][174] Gonder contested the result but to no avail.[175]
1983   United Kingdom general Leicester South 0.0163% 7 21,424 Conservative Party challenger Derek Spencer defeated Labour Party incumbent Jim Marshall 21,424–21,417.
2004     Kelantan State Legislative Assembly Kemuning 0.01646% 2 6,078 The Kemuning state constituency was shifted east in the 2004 redelineation, absorbing most of the abolished Banggol Judah constituency. Incumbent Banggol Judah assemblyman Zakaria Yaacob retained the seat for PAS by two votes against UMNO candidate Wan Mohamad Zin Mat Amin, 6,078–6,076. Crucially, this allowed PAS to maintain control of the Kelantan assembly throughout the term as it won 24 seats to UMNO's 22, and UMNO subsequently cut PAS' margin to one seat by winning the 2005 Pengkalan Pasir by-election.
1988   Canadian federal London—Middlesex 0.0165% 8 18,534 Progressive Conservative MP Terry Clifford narrowly edged out Liberal Garnet Bloomfield.[176]
2005     Virginia General Virginia Attorney General 0.01663% 323 970,886 Bob McDonnell was certified as the victor over Creigh Deeds following a recount.[177]
1988     Massachusetts Governor's Council Democratic Primary 3rd District 0.0170% 5 14,709 In the recount, Robert B. Kennedy led Herbert Connolly by one vote: 14,716–14,715.[178] (Connolly had actually failed to vote for himself.)[179] In the recount, Kennedy again led by one vote: 14,691–14,690. Connolly contested the result. The Supreme Judicial Court considered 116 contested votes and decided ultimately that Kennedy won by five votes: 14,709–14,704.[180]
1829     United States House of Representatives Kentucky's 2nd District 0.0179% 1 5,591 Jacksonsian candidate Nicholas D. Coleman defeated Adams candidate Adam Beatty 2520–2519.[181]
2018   Pakistani general Mardan-II 0.0181% 35 78,911 Awami National Party's Ameer Haider Hoti defeated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's Atif Khan 78,911-78,876.[182]
2011   Canadian federal Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup 0.0189% 9 17,285 Conservative incumbent Bernard Généreux was initially declared the winner by 311 votes. Subsequently, the returning officer determined that approximately 300 votes for the New Democratic candidate, François Lapointe, had been allocated to the Green Party candidate in error. After the correction, Lapointe was declared elected by 5 votes, prompting an automatic judicial recount. As a result of this recount, Lapointe was confirmed as the victor over Généreux by 9 votes, 17,285-17,276.[183]
1936     United States House of Representatives New Hampshire's 1st District 0.0193% 20 51,702 After the initial count, Republican Arthur B. Jenks was declared the winner by 550 votes, however a recount left the vote tied at 51,690 votes each. Both parties contested ballots, 108 in total, to the state ballot-law commission which after ruling on each determined that Alphonse Roy had won 51,695-51,678. After those hearings were over, Jenks argued that there was a 36 ballot discrepancy between those cast and those counted in Newton. The ballot-law commission called for another recount, finding the count was now 51,702 to 51,678, but also that 34 ballots were missing and that they should be awarded to Jenks making him the winner by 10 votes. Roy contested, and though Jenks wasn't sworn in until 2 days after Congress met, he did take office. During Roy's contest the majority of the Committee on Elections found that though there was a discrepancy between the ballots and the tally sheet, there was no evidence that any ballots had disappeared due to fraud or mistake and that in such a conflict the ballots should be considered the best evidence of the votes cast; and they found that four additional ballots should be awarded to Jenks raising his total to 51,682. The minority of the committee argued that they could establish both by testimony and the tally sheets that more people had voted in Newton than there were ballots to count; that in every race in Newton Republicans had lost 34 votes in the recount and Democrats had lost zero; and that the number of ballots (used and unused) returned to the state was 34 lower than what was sent. In the end the Democratically-controlled House decided to accept the majority's position, and on June 9, 1938 Jenks was removed from office and Roy was seated. Jenks then won election five months later and served until 1943.[184][185]
2003   Somaliland presidential President of Somaliland 0.0195% 80 205,595 Dahir Riyale Kahin, of the For Unity, Democracy, and Independence party narrowly defeated the Peace, Unity, and Development Party's Ahmed M. Mahamoud Silanyo in a three-way race.[186][unreliable source?]
1974   United Kingdom general Bodmin 0.0196% 9 20,283 Liberal challenger Paul Tyler defeated Conservative Party incumbent Robert Hicks 20,283–20,274.[187]
2021     Northern Territory local government Mayor of Alice Springs 0.020437% 2 4,894 After distribution of preferences, independent candidate Matt Paterson led fellow independent Jimmy Cocking by 2 votes. Cocking requested a new recount, but it was rejected.[188]
2001   Italian Senate Rome Centre 0.0196% 29 68,773 House of Freedoms candidate Giulio Maceratini was elected but the defeated The Olive Tree Tana De Zulueta candidate won a seat via levelling seats.
2006     Oklahoma House of Representatives District 25 0.0208% 2 4,798 Initially Democrat Darrel Nemecek beat Republican Todd Thomsen by two votes for the Oklahoma House of Representatives seat in its 25th district. But during the recount, a Hughes County judge threw out four votes for Nemecek when it was discovered the voters who cast the contested ballots were not registered to vote in the district. Though Nemecek argued that the straight-party option was confusing and voter intent was clear on some ballots that were not counted for him, Thomsen was declared the winner and sworn in.[189][190][191]
2004     Commonwealth's Attorney Special Election Radford District 0.0211% 1 2,375 Chris E. Rehak defeated Patrick Moore by 1 vote, and a recount didn't change the margin.[192]
1820     United States House of Representatives Maryland's 6th District 0.02136% 1 2,341 The race for Maryland's 6th District House Seat was originally declared a tie, and so the Governor and Council of Maryland - in what they thought was accordance of the law - decided to seat Jeremiah Cosden. Phillip Reed, who like Cosden was a Democratic-Republican, contested the election. The House decided that the Governor and Council were not allowed to choose a winner; that two votes for Reed that were excluded ought to count and that one that was counted for him was illegal. As a result Cosden, who had been seated for 15 days, was removed and Reed was seated for the remainder of the term.[44][193]
2021     United States House of Representatives Democratic Primary Florida's 20th District 0.02144% 5 11,662 In the Democratic primary for the chance to replace Alcee Hastings who had died in April, healthcare executive Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick defeated Broward County Commissioner Dale Holness by just 5 votes. The election day results had Cherfilus-McCormick ahead by 12 votes, but a recount narrowed that lead to 5.[194]
1896   Canadian federal Ontario North 0.0215% 1 2,328 Liberal-Conservative John Alexander McGillivray defeated Patrons of Industry Duncan Graham.[48]
2022     New York State Assembly New York's 99th State Assembly district 0.021575% 8 18,539 Democrat Chris Eachus defeated Republican Kathryn Luciani by 8 votes following a hand recount.[195]
1900   Canadian federal Selkirk 0.0230% 1 2,172 Liberal William Forsythe McCreary defeated Conservative John Herber Haslam.[196] This was the second time in a row that a Liberal candidate defeated his Conservative rival in this riding by a single vote.
1904     United States presidential Maryland 0.0233% 51 109,497 Republican President Theodore Roosevelt barely carried Maryland over Democrat Alton Parker on his way to an electoral landslide.[197]
1970   United Kingdom general Ipswich 0.0234% 13 27,704 Conservative Party challenger Ernle Money defeated Labour Party incumbent Dingle Foot 27,704–27,691.[198]
1959   United Kingdom general South East Derbyshire 0.0236% 12 25,374 Conservative Party challenger John Jackson defeated Labour Party incumbent Arthur Champion 25,374–25,362.[199]
2010     Texas House of Representatives District 48 0.02398% 12 25,023 Election Day results gave Democrat Donna Howard a 16 vote victory. Following a recount, that lead was cut to 12 votes. Republican Dan Neil requested the election by investigated by the House of Representatives.[200] After a four-day hearing headed up by Representative Will Hartnett, Howard was found to have won the election by 4 votes and Neil ultimately dropped the contest.[200] The Secretary of State still reports an official margin of 12 votes.[201]
1964   United Kingdom general Reading 0.02402% 10 20,815 Conservative Party incumbent Peter Emery defeated Labour Party challenger John Lee 20,815–20,810. Lee would later defeat Emery in 1966.[202]
1822     United States House of Representatives New York's 29th District 0.0241% 1 2,072 Initially, Isaac Wilson and Parmenio Adams had 2,093–2,077 votes. On a recount, the tally changed to 2,071–2,072. There were also irregularities raised. The committee of elections considered it "doubtful, from the evidence, who ought to have been returned". The House then voted 116–85 to seat Adams.[203]
2021   Canadian federal Châteauguay—Lacolle 0.02412% 12 18,029 Liberal incumbent Brenda Shanahan Defeats Bloc Québécois candidate Patrick O'Hara after a recount.
1900   Canadian federal Bruce North 0.02418% 1 2,065 Liberal-Conservative incumbent Alexander McNeill defeated Liberal J. E. Campbell.[196] Later the election was voided.
2022   Italian Chamber of Deputies Ravenna 0.02419% 44 75,596 CDX candidate Alice Buonguerrieri [it] defeated CSX candidate Ouidad Bakkali [it].
1964   United Kingdom general Eton and Slough 0.024255% 11 22,681 Conservative Party challenger Anthony Meyer defeated Labour Party incumbent Fenner Brockway 22,681–22,670.[204]
1923   United Kingdom general Durham, Sedgefield 0.0252% 6 11,093 Conservative Party challenger Leonard Ropner defeated Labour Party incumbent John Herriotts 11,093–11,087.[205]
2016     New York Senate 8th District 0.0256% 33 64,499 John Brooks secured a spot in the State Senate by defeating incumbent Republican Michael Venditto.[206]
1980     Utah House of Representatives District 44 0.0259% 1 1,931 A recount gave Republican Bob Curran a 1-vote victory over the incumbent Democrat Jen Patterson, after leading by 2 votes following the official canvass.[1][207]
1914   Australian House of Representatives Werriwa 0.0266% 7 13,162 John Lynch defeated the sitting member Alfred Conroy by seven votes.[77]
1930   Canadian federal Norfolk—Elgin 0.0266% 5 9,424 Liberal William H. Taylor defeated Conservative John Lawrence Stansell.[155]
1832     United States House of Representatives Ohio's 7th District 0.02675% 2 3,739 William Allen (later 31st Governor of Ohio) defeated General and 11th Governor of Ohio Duncan McArthur by two votes: 3739–3737.[208] According to Niles' National Register, a third candidate by the name of Murphy also won 55 votes.[209]
1899   New Zealand House of Representatives Riccarton 0.02678% 1 1,867 Incumbent MP William Rolleston lost his seat to Liberal challenger George Warren Russell after a margin of only 1 vote separated the two on the final count.[210]
1876     United States House of Representatives Massachusetts' 3rd District 0.0268% 5 9,313[211] (depending on which count use) After much investigation, the Committee of Elections gave Walbridge Field the 5-vote majority over Benjamin Dean.
1970     Massachusetts House of Representatives Democratic Primary 14th Essex 0.02722% 3 5,513 In a 3-way race, Edward J. Grimley, Jr. topped Gerard A. Guilmette by 3 votes, but Guilmette ran in the general and topped him by 2.2%. The two would meet again in both the 1972 primary and general with Grimley winning both, also in close races. Guilmette would then serve two terms representing 25th Essex.[212]
1970     Massachusetts House of Representatives Democratic Primary 17th Worcester 0.02723% 2 3,674 Andrew Collaro defeated Robert J. Bohigian, but then Bohigian defeated him by 900+ votes in the general. Collaro and Bohigian would repeat this process in 1972 and then Collaro would represent 22nd and 15th Worcester from 1974 to 1992. Bohigian would serve until he lost re-election in 1990.[213]
2017   French legislative (2nd round) Loiret's 4th constituency 0.0275% 8 14,561 Four-term incumbent Jean-Pierre Door of The Republicans (LR) narrowly defeated Mélusine Harlé of La République En Marche! by 8 votes in the second round. Harlé filed an appealed the result to the Constitutional Council,[214] which annulled the election on 18 December 2017 due to the number of ballots not corresponding to the number of signatures in one commune and the improper dissemination of electoral materials which was considered sufficient to potentially have altered the result of the election.[215] Door won the seat in a 2018 election.
1843     United States House of Representatives Indiana's 7th District 0.0276% 3 5,441 Democrat Joseph A. Wright defeated Whig Edward W. McGaughey 5,441–5,438.[216]
2022     New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 16 District 0.0278% 1 1,799 After initially being behind by 23 votes, Democrat Maxine Mosley defeated Republican Larry Gagne by 1 vote after a recount.[217]
2007   Australian federal Division of McEwen 0.02794% 31 48,339 Liberal Fran Bailey defeated Labor Rob Mitchell following a recount and court challenge.[218][219]
1891   Canadian federal Wentworth South 0.02821% 1 1,773 Conservative Franklin Carpenter defeated Liberal James T. Russell.[220]
1914     United States House of Representatives New York's 1st District 0.02822% 10 17,726 Initial election returns handed Republican Frederick C. Hicks, a 15 vote win over Representative Lathrop Brown, a Democrat. A review of ballots by the New York Supreme Court took more than a year and when it was completed the lead was cut to four votes, 17,726 to 17,722.[140][221] A review by the Court of Appeals changed the plurality to 10 votes. Hicks was issued a certificate of election on December 21, 1915 - more than 13 months after he election, making this one of the longest in the history of the House. Brown contested the election, arguing that there were errors made by the inspectors (and that some precinct workers were drunk on election day), but the House found that they could not review the ballots unless the returns had been discredited, which they had not.[222]
1970     Rhode Island House of Representatives District 26 0.0284% 1 1,760 After recounts, Democrat John F. Hagan beat the Republican nominee Benedetto A. Cerilli.[1][223]
1997   United Kingdom general Torbay 0.0285% 12 21,094 Liberal Democrat candidate Adrian Sanders gained the seat from the sitting Conservative MP Rupert Allason.[224]
1887   Canadian federal Haldimand 0.02865% 1 1,746 Conservative Walter Humphries Montague defeated Liberal incumbent Charles Wesley Colter.[47]
2022     Maryland County Executive Democratic Primary Montgomery County Executive 0.0287% 32 111,246 Marc Elrich originally defeated challenger David Blair by 35 votes, but after a recount that narrowed to 32. The race was a rematch of 2018, where Elrich defeated Blair by only 77 votes (0.103%).[225]
1896   Canadian federal Selkirk 0.02920% 1 1,713 Liberal John Alexander MacDonell defeated Conservative Hugh Armstrong.[48]
1979     Virginia Senate District 37 0.0293% 9 15,379 Madison Marye (D) defeated Edwin E. Stone (R) by 20 votes and a December 4, 1979 narrowed the margin to 9.[226]
1935   Canadian federal Vancouver—Burrard 0.0294% 6 10,215 Liberal Gerald Grattan McGeer defeated Co-operative Commonwealth candidate Arnold Alexander Webster by 6 votes.[227]
2016   Philippine House of Representatives Northern Samar's 1st District 0.02951% 47 80,157 Liberal incumbent Raul Daza defeated Nacionalista Harlin Abayon in a rematch of the 2013 election where Abayon won by 52 votes. Daza won against Abayon's protest in the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal.[228]
2020   Bosnia and Herzegovina mayoral Kalesija 0.0305% 5 5,572 The incumbent mayor of Kalesija, Sead Džafić, declared victory while leading in the preliminary results by 58 votes, but postal votes put his challenger, Zijad Kulanić, ahead by just one vote. After discarding invalid ballots from one polling station, Džafić took the lead again with 5 votes.[229][230]
1912     United States presidential California 0.0307% 174 283,610 Former President Theodore Roosevelt, running on the Republican and Progressive ballot lines in California (Republican President William Howard Taft was not on the ballot in the state, although he did receive 3,914 write-in votes), narrowly edged out Democrat Woodrow Wilson in California, but Wilson won a landslide in the Electoral College due to divided Republican opposition.[231]
1998     New Hampshire Senate District 16 0.0318% 5 7,867 Patricia Krueger (R) defeated Stephen DeStefano (D) by 16 votes. Following a recount that was narrowed to 7. DeStefano appealed the recount but the count was only changed by 2 votes.[232]
1945   United Kingdom general Manchester, Rusholme 0.0324% 10 15,408 Labour Party candidate (unofficial) Hugh Lester Hutchinson defeated Conservative Party incumbent Frederick William Cundiff 15,408–15,398.[233]
1976     United States House of Representatives Democratic Primary Massachusetts's 1st District 0.0330% 13 19,694 Edward McColgan beat Edward O'Brien and then lost the general election.[234]
1917   Australian House of Representatives Macquarie 0.0331% 9 13,566 Samuel Nicholls defeated the sitting member Ernest Carr by nine votes.[77]
1935   Canadian federal Souris 0.0333% 3 4,504 Liberal-Progressive George William McDonald defeated Progressive Conservative incumbent Errick French Willis.[227]
2011   New Zealand general Waitakere 0.0334% 9 13,465 National incumbent Paula Bennett retained her seat over Labour challenger Carmel Sepuloni after a judicial recount was requested by Bennett. The original official result had Sepuloni winning with a margin of 11 votes.[235][236]
1929   United Kingdom general Birmingham Ladywood 0.0335% 11 16,447 Labour Party candidate Wilfred Whiteley defeated Conservative Party candidate Geoffrey Lloyd 16,447–16,436.[237]
2011     Scottish Parliament Glasgow Anniesland 0.0339% 7 10,329 Incumbent Labour MSP Bill Butler was defeated by Bill Kidd of the Scottish National Party (SNP).[238]
1964   United Kingdom general Preston North 0.0340% 14 20,566 Conservative Party incumbent Julian Amery defeated Labour Party challenger Russell Kerr 20,566–20,552.[202]
2016   Jamaican general Saint Mary South Eastern 0.0341% 5 7,324 People's National Party incumbent Winston Green defeated Jamaica Labour Party challenger Norman Alexander Dunn 7,324–7,319.[239]
2006     United States House of Representatives Connecticut's 2nd District 0.0342% 83 121,248 Democratic challenger Joe Courtney was up 167 votes on Republican incumbent Rob Simmons after the initial vote.[240] On the recount, Courtney remained the victor by 83 votes: 121,248–121,165.[241]
1955     Virginia House of Delegates District 55 0.0346% 2 2,891 John A. Mackenzie (D) defeated William J. Moody (D)[242]
2020     United States House of Representatives New York's 22nd District 0.0349% 109 156,098 Republican Claudia Tenney, after a lengthy set of recounts and court cases, defeated Anthony Brindisi by 109 votes in a race that wasn't decided until early February. When the polls initially closed, Tenney held a large 28,422-vote lead based on the in-person vote. But as mail-in ballots poured in, her lead dwindled to 12 votes. As the courts reviewed ballots the lead grew and shrank until a judge ruled the race over and that Tenney should be certified. With appeals still pending, Brindisi conceded and dropped all legal challenges on February 8, 2021.[243]
2015     Córdoba Legislature Pocho Department 0.03546% 1 1,106 Hugo Cuello (Union for Córdoba) won the seat for the Pocho Department by 1,106 votes against Raúl Recalde (Together for Córdoba) 1,105 votes.
1978     New Hampshire Senate Republican Primary District 14 0.03560% 3 4,215 Incumbent Thomas J. Claveau (D) defeated Phyllis Keeney (R).[244]
1922     United States House of Representatives Illinois' 6th District 0.03564% 42 58,928 Democrat James R. Buckley defeated incumbent Republican John J. Gorman by 42 votes. Gorman contested the election on the basis that there were many errors, mistakes, and irregularities and a recount would show he had won. However Gorman failed to submit his evidence within the 30 days required and therefore had no standing. In a rematch in 1924, Gorman regained his seat.[245]
1964     United States Senate Nevada 0.03565% 48 67,336 Democratic incumbent Howard Cannon defeated Republican Paul Laxalt.[246]
2013   Philippine House of Representatives Northern Samar's 1st District 0.03569% 52 72,857 Nacionalista Harlin Abayon defeated Liberal incumbent Raul Daza. Daza won on a recount by the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal and replaced Abayon, but Abayon won an appeal in the Supreme Court. Abayon was still not seated in the last day of the 16th Congress.[247]
1945   Canadian federal Colchester—Hants 0.0357% 8 11,141 Progressive Conservative Frank Stanfield defeated Liberal incumbent Gordon Timlin Purdy.[248]
1982     Maine House of Representatives District 69 0.03606% 1 1,387 Unofficial counts said it was tied, but all subsequent counts were 1,387–1,386[1] Winner was Walter R. Sherburne.
1916     United States House of Representatives North Carolina's 10th District 0.03611% 13 18,008 When ballots were originally canvassed, James J. Britt held a scant 13 vote lead over challenger Zebulon Weaver. However, Buncombe County decided to accept 90 unmarked ballots (ballots that were printed as either Republican or Democratic ballots) and those ballots gave Weaver an 8 vote lead. Weaver was certified and provisionally seated while Britt contested the election. The House found in his favor, but by the time he was sworn in there was only 4 days remaining in his term.[249]
1990     Ohio general Ohio Attorney General 0.03672% 1,234 1,680,698 Democratic candidate Lee Fisher defeated Republican Paul Pfeifer after a six-week recount, earning him the ironic nickname "Landslide Lee".[250]
2000   Canadian federal Champlain 0.03674% 15 20,423 Bloc Québécois candidate Marcel Gagnon narrowly edged out Liberal Julie Boulet.[251]
1859     United States House of Representatives Tennessee's 9th District 0.0371% 7 9,437 Emerson Etheridge defeated Democrat John DeWitt Clinton Atkins, 9,437–9,430.[252][253]
1922   United Kingdom general Manchester, Clayton 0.0372% 11 14,800 Conservative Party candidate William Henry Flanagan defeated Labour Party candidate John Edward Sutton, 14,800–14,789.[254] Sutton had beaten Flanagan in the by-election earlier that year.
2018     Victoria Legislative Assembly Electoral district of Ripon 0.03745% 15 20,035 Incumbent Louise Staley of the Liberal Party defeated Sarah de Santis of the Labor Party [255]
2018     Alaska House of Representatives District 1 0.03755% 1 2,663 Republican nominee Bart LeBon defeated Democrat Kathryn Dodge 2,663-2,662 following a recount and a state supreme court challenge.[256][257] Dodge challenged the findings of the Division of Elections on three ballots, two that were counted and one that was not, but the Supreme Court upheld the count and Dodge conceded. The race decided control of the Alaska House of Representatives, technically giving Republicans a majority, but due to defections created a 20–20 tie instead of Democratic control.[258] After weeks of deadlock, Bryce Edgmon (who originally won his seat with a coin toss) switched his party affiliation from Democratic to Independent and was re-elected Speaker and several committees were set up with bipartisan leadership.
1951   United Kingdom general Belfast West 0.03769% 25 33,174 Irish Labour candidate Jack Beattie defeated UUP incumbent Thomas Teevan, 33,174–33,149.[259]
1968   Canadian federal Comox—Alberni 0.03771% 9 11,939 Liberal Richard Durante defeated New Democratic incumbent Thomas Speakman Barnett.[156] The result was later declared void and Durante lost the by-election to Barnett in 1969.
1935   United Kingdom general Kingswinford 0.0382% 16 20,925 Labour Party challenger Arthur Henderson defeated Conservative Party incumbent Alan Livesey Stuart Todd, 20,925–20,909.[260]
1896   Canadian federal York East 0.03841% 1 3,907 Independent Conservative incumbent William F. McLean defeated Liberal Henry R. Frankland.[48] F
2008   Canadian federal Kitchener—Waterloo 0.0390% 17 21,830 Conservative Peter Braid defeated Liberal Andrew Telegdi after a recount.[261]
1828     United States House of Representatives New York's 20th District 0.03917% 7 8,939 In 1828, the 20th district had two representatives and all candidates ran in one race. Jacksonian Silas Wright, Jr. finished in 3rd place, 7 votes behind Adams-supporter George Fisher. Wright contested the outcome and a House investigation found that 130 votes for Wright had not been returned for him because of mistakes by election officials. The House removed Fisher, who did not object to the outcome and resigned, and gave the seat to Wright. Wright in the meantime had been elected state comptroller and so he refused to qualify for the seat, which was later filled by a special election.[262][263]
1992   United Kingdom general Vale of Glamorgan 0.03923% 19 24,220 Conservative Party challenger Walter Sweeney defeated Labour Party incumbent John William Patrick Smith, 24,220–24,201. Smith would beat Sweeney in 1997.[264]
2008     Alaska House of Representatives District 7 0.0398% 4 5,024 Incumbent Republican Mike Kelly defeated Democratic challenger Karl Kassel, 5,024–5,020, following a recount.[265][266][267]
1990     Illinois House of Representatives 55th district 0.0406% 6 7,392 Initially, Rosemary Mulligan and Penny Pullen were certified as having 7,431–7,400 votes and Mulligan was declared the winner. The trial court ordered a recount that then had them tied at 7,387–7,387. The Illinois Compiled Statutes required that ties be resolved by lot.[268] Mulligan won the coin flip and was declared the winner by the trial court. Pullen then appealed, and the Illinois Supreme Court decided that the correct vote count was 7,392–7,386, with Pullen declared the winner. Two years later Mulligan took another swing at the seat, and defeated Pullen in a race so close it also required a recount.[269]
1991     Virginia House of Delegates District 58 0.0408% 7 8,561 C. Timothy Lindstrom (D) was originally declared the winner, but later it was discovered that election officials in Greene County misread a "9" as a "0" and Peter Way (R) went on to win the election.[270][271]
2013     Virginia General Virginia Attorney General 0.0411% 907 1,105,045 Democratic candidate Mark Herring defeated Republican candidate Mark Obenshain. The initial count was 1,103,777–1,103–612—a 165 or 0.01% margin. The recount was 1,105,045–1,104,138 — a 907 or 0.04% margin.
1994     Massachusetts Governor's Council Democratic Primary 4th District 0.0420% 26 30,989 Christopher A. Iannella, Jr. defeated John J. Kerrigan. Iannella won the general unopposed.[272]
1870     United States House of Representatives South Carolina's At-large District (unrecognized) 0.0425% 61 71,803 South Carolina was readmitted to Congress in 1868, after passage of the 14th Amendment. That amendment ended the three-fifths rule effectively raising the population of states that once had slavery. As a result, South Carolina and other slave states tried to seat extra members of Congress. South Carolina choose two additional congress members during at-large election. In one of those, Johann Peter Martin Epping defeated Lucius W. Wimbush by 61 votes: 71,803–71,742. But the House refused to seat him and the other at-large winner. "A number of southern states upon readmission claimed that since their slaves were emancipated, they were entitled to larger delegations in the House. Epping's election falls in this category. The claims were rejected by the House."[273][274][275][276]
1995     Queensland Legislative Assembly Mundingburra 0.04301% 16 18,600 General election saw return of Australian Labor Party MP Ken Davies over his Liberal Party rival, Frank Tanti, after distribution of preferences of minor candidates, by just 16 votes. However due to the non-arrival of some overseas military ballots, a Court of Disputed Returns required a fresh election, at which Tanti won. As this seat was the difference between a Labor Party majority and a Liberal Party supported by an Independent MP, the overturning of the result was a rare example of the fate of an entire government resting on a challenge to an ultra-close constituency.
2014     Parliament of South Australia Fisher state by-election 0.04371% 9 10,299 By-election caused by the death of sitting independent MP Bob Such. The Australian Labor Party candidate Nat Cook beat the Liberal Party candidate, Heidi Harris, by 9 votes.[277]
1974   Canadian federal Drummond 0.0447% 13 14,561 Liberal Yvon Pinard defeated Social Credit incumbent Jean-Marie Boisvert.[278]
1979   Canadian federal Halifax 0.0453% 15 16,570 Progressive Conservative George Cooper defeated Liberal Brian Flemming.[279]
2006     Vermont Auditor of Accounts Vermont Auditor of Accounts 0.0456% 102 111,770 The initial count gave the victory to Randy Brock (R) by 137 votes, but after a recount, Thomas M. Salmon (D) was declared the winner by just 102 votes. The final tally gave Salmon 111,770 votes and Republican Brock 111,668.[280]
1922   United Kingdom general Portsmouth, Central 0.0457% 7 7,666 In this four-way race, Conservative Party candidate Frank Privett defeated National Liberal candidate T. Fisher 7,666–7,659.[281]
2005   British Columbia general Vancouver-Burrard 0.0458% 11 12,009[282] On election night, Tim Stevenson of the British Columbia New Democratic Party had the lead over Lorne Mayencourt of the British Columbia Liberal Party, but Mayencourt had a 17-vote lead after a recount. When the absentee ballots were counted later, Maynecourt widened his lead by 1 vote.[283] Following an additional recount ordered by the courts, Maynecourt retained an 11-vote lead and was declared the winner.[284] Stevenson sued, arguing that 71 absentee ballots had improperly certified and thus uncounted and that a new election was needed, but then dropped the suit to run for a seat on the city council.[285]
1960     United States House of Representatives Indiana's 5th District 0.0461% 99 107,357 In the official count after election day, Republican George O. Chambers defeated Democrat J. Edward Roush by 3 votes and by 12 votes after the canvas. He was certified as the winner, but Roush contested the outcome and the Democratically-controlled House first decided that neither should be seated. After a review of the ballots, the House Committee determined that Roush had won the seat by 99 votes and on June 14, 1961 passed a resolution to seat him.[184]
1993   Canadian federal Edmonton Northwest 0.0476% 12 12,599 Liberal candidate Anne McLellan narrowly edged out Reform candidate Richard Kayler.[286]
1853     United States House of Representatives Georgia's 3rd District 0.0478% 5 5,232 Democrat David J. Bailey defeated Whig Robert P. Trippe 5232–5227.[287]
1972     Connecticut House of Representatives 65th district Democratic primary Connecticut 0.0481% 1 2,079[288] Representatives Addo Bonetti and John J. Miscikowski were both moved into the 65th district after legislative redistricting in 1972.[289] Bonetti was initially defeated in the primary by Miscikowski by one vote and a recount maintained Miscikowski's one vote victory.[288][290] However, Judge George Saden invalidated the primary and ordered a new one due to a Republican having mistakenly voted in the primary.[291] Bonetti defeated Miscikowski in the second primary and won in the general election against Republican nominee Edwin R. Chadwick.[292][293]
2017   United Kingdom general Perth and North Perthshire 0.0482% 21 21,804 The incumbent Scottish National Party narrowly defeated Conservative candidate Ian Duncan.[294]
1945   United Kingdom general Cheshire, Northwich 0.0486% 15 15,477 In this three-way race, Conservative Party candidate John Foster defeated Labour Party candidate Prof. Robert Chorley 15,477–15,473.[146]
1968   Canadian federal Oshawa—Whitby 0.0493% 15 15,224 New Democrat Ed Broadbent defeated Progressive Conservative incumbent Michael Starr.[156]
2014   Ukrainian parliamentary 79th constituency (Vasylivka) 0.0495% 17 17,197 An independent representative of Zaporizhia Iron Ore Works Oleksandr Hryhorchuk initially defeated the pro-Party of Regions incumbent Volodymyr Bandurov by 138 votes. Bandurov contested the result and obtained a recount, and won with a margin of 17 votes following the recount. Hryhorchuk contested the recount as irregular.[295]
2016     Vermont House of Representatives Windsor-Orange 1 District 0.0498% 1 1,004 This was the fourth matchup between incumbent Democrat Sarah Buxton and Republican David Ainsworth (their first matchup had also been decided by one vote). The initial tally had Buxton leading by 3 votes: 1,003–1,000.

The first recount had them both tied at 1,000.

The second recount then had Ainsworth win by one vote, 1,004–1,003. Buxton did not make any further appeals and this was the final result.[296][297]

1940     Kansas gubernatorial Governor of Kansas 0.0505% 430 425,928 Burke came within 430 votes of beating Gov. Ratner for reelection.[298][299]
1854     United States House of Representatives Pennsylvania's 5th District 0.0510% 8 7,842 Democrat John Cadwalader defeated anti-Nebraska Whig Jones 7,842–7,834.
2009     Party Leader (second ballot) Action démocratique du Québec 0.0511% 2 1,957 After longtime leader Mario Dumont stepped down from the leadership of the party, an election was held. In a very close race, Gilles Taillon defeated his opponent Éric Caire, by just 2 votes.[300]
1833     United States House of Representatives Indiana's 2nd District 0.0520% 2 1,921 In this 6-way race, Whig John Ewing defeated Democrat John W. Davis by 2 votes: 1921–1919.[301][302]
2020     Pennsylvania Senate District 45 0.0521% 69 66,261 When this race was certified in early December, after numerous court battles, Democrat Jim Brewster had 69 votes more than Republican Nicole Ziccarelli. However a dispute over 311 absentee and mail-in ballots that were signed, but not dated lingered in the courts into January. Though Brewster was certified, Republicans in the state Senate blocked Brewster from taking his oath of office and removed the Democratic lieutenant governor from his role overseeing the proceedings.[303] A week later, after Ziccarelli lost her appeal, she conceded and Brewster was sworn in.[304]
1870     United States House of Representatives Pennsylvania's 17th District 0.05324% 11 10,335 Democratic challenger Milton Speer defeated Republican incumbent Daniel J. Morrell by 11 votes: 10335–10324.[305][306][307] Morrell declined to contest the results, blaming the loss on the "base treachery and debauchery of professed Republicans."
1887   Canadian federal Montmorency 0.05328% 1 939 Liberal Charles Langelier defeated Conservative P. V. Valin.[47]
2016     United States House of Representatives Republican Primary Arizona's 5th District 0.0535% 27 85,595 On the night of the Republican Primary for the seat being vacated by Congressman Matt Salmon, State Senator Andy Biggs lead by a total of 16 votes against Republican challenger Christine Jones. After a recount that lead widened to 27 votes, and Jones conceded the election.[308]
2000     United States House of Representatives Minnesota's 2ndd District 0.0537% 155 288,900 Republican Mark Kennedy won against DFL incumbent David Minge 138,957-138,802. [309]
1945   United Kingdom general Caithness and Sutherland 0.0539% 6 5,564 In this very close three-way race where each candidate received 33% of the vote, Unionist Party candidate Eric Gandar Dower defeated Labour Party candidate Robert Ian Aonas MacInnes 5,564–5,558. The incumbent, Liberal Party leader Archibald Sinclair, had 5,503 votes.
1974   United Kingdom general Peterborough 0.05407% 22 20,353 Conservative Party incumbent Sir Harmar Nicholls defeated Labour Party challenger Michael Ward 20,353–20,331. Ward had also lost to Nicholls in 1966 and 1970, but would win in Oct 1974.
1983   United Kingdom general Hyndburn 0.05414% 21 19,405 Conservative Party candidate Ken Hargreaves defeated Labour Party candidate Arthur Davidson 19,405–19,384. This seat was created in 1983.[310]
1838     United States House of Representatives New Jersey's at-large District 0.05455% 31 28,426 For much of its early history, New Jersey chose all of its Congressional delegation in an at-large election, with each voter getting to vote for however many candidates that there were seats and usually each party's slate of candidates would thus have similar numbers of votes. In 1838, New Jersey had six seats and so each voter could vote for six candidates. The voting for the parties was very close and at first it appeared that all 6 Whig candidates had been re-elected and their election was certified by the Whig governor who applied the states "broad seal" to them. The Democrats contested the election on the grounds that the votes of two townships were excluded and that if included would've swung the election and this became known as the "Broad Seal War". The House, which held a 2-seat majority without the NJ delegation, decided to seat one of the Whigs but leave the other 5 seats vacant. After the contest was investigated, and the excluded votes counted, 5 of the 6 Democrats were declared winners. They were seated in July 1840. In the end only 197 votes separated the Democrat's best finisher from the Whig's worst. Charles C. Stratton came in 7th, only 31 votes behind Democrat Joseph Kille a difference of only 0.05455%. John P. B. Maxwell missed out by 40 votes, or 0.0703%. The 6 Democrats averaged 28,429 votes and the Whigs 28,360 for an average advantage of only 69 votes or 0.12%.[311][312]
2014     United States House of Representatives Tennessee's 4th District 0.05464% 38 69,548 Scandal-plagued Republican candidate Scott DesJarlais defeated candidate Jim Tracy.[313]
1986     United States House of Representatives North Carolina's 6th District 0.05465% 79 144,579 Republican candidate Howard Coble defeated Democratic candidate Robin Britt.
1964   United Kingdom general Ealing North 0.0561% 27 20,809 Labour Party challenger William Molloy defeated Conservative Party incumbent John Barter 20,809–20,782.[314]
2010     Vermont House of Representatives Windsor-Orange 1 District 0.0567% 1 882 On the initial tally, challenger Democrat Sarah Buxton and incumbent Republican David Ainsworth had 882-881 votes. On a recount, they were tied, with one mailed-in military vote for Buxton rejected. Buxton appealed and the Superior Court ruled that vote valid, so that Buxton still won by one vote (881–880). Ainsworth then appealed but the House voted along party lines to uphold Buxton's one-vote victory.[122][315][316] Remarkably, their fourth matchup in 2016 would again be decided by one vote, but with the result reversed.
2012     United States presidential Iowa Republican caucuses 0.0570% 34 29,839 Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum defeated former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in the statewide Republican caucuses, the closest GOP primary election in United States history.[317] Romney had been declared the winner by 8 votes on caucus night.
1930     Kansas gubernatorial Governor of Kansas 0.0576% 251 217,171 Harry H. Woodring won a three-way race between himself (217,171 votes), Frank Haucke (216,920), and John R. Hinckley (183,278).[318]
1903   Australian House of Representatives Riverina 0.0576% 5 4,341 Robert Blackwood defeated the sitting member John Chanter by five votes. The result was overturned and Chanter won a by-election by 363 votes.[77]
2014   Ukrainian parliamentary 22nd constituency (Lutsk) 0.0578% 28 24,245 Ihor Lapin (People's Front), defeated Iryna Konstankevych, an ally of the incumbent Ihor Palytsia who was a candidate on the Petro Poroshenko Bloc party list instead), 24,245–24,217.[319]
1959   United Kingdom general Birmingham All Saints 0.05806% 20 17,235 Conservative Party challenger John Harold Hollingworth defeated Labour Party incumbent Denis Herbert Howell 17,235–17,215.[320]
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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources This is a list of close election results on the national level and within administrative divisions It lists results that have been decided by a margin of less than 1 vote in 1 000 a margin of less than 0 1 percentage points single winner elections where the winning candidate was less than 0 1 ahead of the second placed candidate as well as party list elections where a party was less than 0 1 short of the electoral threshold or two lists that obtained seats are less than 0 1 Percentage points apart This list is limited to elections in which at least 1 000 votes were cast To provide context the section on Distribution of elections shows the distribution of winning margins in different areas Depending on the area from 1 in 40 to 1 in 500 election contests is decided by less than 1 vote in 1 000 According to a 2001 study of state and federal elections in the United States between 1898 and 1992 one of every 100 000 votes cast in U S elections and one of every 15 000 votes cast in state elections mattered in the sense that they were cast for a candidate that officially tied or won by one vote 1 While not an election a member of Congress once owed his seat to the drawing of lots In 1902 after more than 7 000 votes at three conventions the Democrats were unable to decide among three candidates for nomination to Texas s 12th congressional district Two candidates put their names in a hat drew one out and the loser agreed to withdraw and support the winner Oscar W Gillespie won the game of lots the nomination and the following general election serving in Congress for eight years 2 There are a variety of ways in which tied elections are settled Some are decided by drawing lots or other games of chances Others lead to a runoff or special election Still others are decided by some third party such as the legislature or a high ranking elected official In one case in Waynetown Indiana in 1891 two candidates for town treasurer agreed to settle their 339 339 tie by a foot race 3 However despite some fictionalized accounts the town board overruled the agreement and determined that then incumbent William Simms would remain in office for another term and the proposed race never occurred 4 Contents 1 Table of close national and state elections 1 1 Tied elections 1 2 List of close election results in single winner majoritarian and STV races 1 3 List of close election results between parties passing the threshold in party list proportional races 1 4 List of parties close to the threshold in proportional races 2 Distribution of elections by winning margin 3 See also 4 Notes 5 ReferencesTable of close national and state elections editTied elections edit Year Country Region Election District Race Total votes cast for winner Description1985 nbsp nbsp Victorian Legislative Council Nunawading 54 821 Bob Ives tied with Rosemary Varty but won the seat with a vote cast by the returning officer who drew Ives name from a hat Adding to the drama the seat decided control of the Legislative Council Before Ives could take his seat the result was subsequently voided by a Court of Disputed Returns on the grounds that 44 votes had been incorrectly excluded from the count and the court ordered a by election Varty then won the by election 5 2011 nbsp Swiss federal Ticino 23 979 6 Marco Romano and Monica Duca Widmer both had 23 979 votes 7 Initially a computer program was used to draw lots and Widmer was declared the winner Following complaints and appeals the Federal Supreme Court ruled against the Canton s decision to use a computer program for the lottery and ordered new manual lottery This was conducted on November 25 and Marco Romano emerged as the winner 8 9 There were 760 995 votes cast in total for 8 seats The PPD won two seats Romano and Widmer both of the PPD were tied for the PPD s second seat 1994 nbsp nbsp National Assembly of Quebec Saint Jean 16 536 Incumbent Liberal Michel Charbonneau tied with Parti Quebecois candidate Roger Paquin Consequently a new vote was held 42 days later which Paquin won by 532 votes 10 1971 nbsp nbsp Virginia House of Delegates District 19 16 410 The initial vote count had Republican William Moss ahead of Democrat Jim Burch by 1 vote for the sixth at large seat in what was then a six member district But then a three judge circuit court ruled that one of the ballots was defaced because the names of two candidates were crossed out with the notation Do not desire to vote for these two They did this even though the person who cast this vote which was known because it was a signed absentee ballot testified that he intended to vote for Moss Throwing out the ballot created a tied vote 11 The names of the two candidates were placed in sealed envelopes and a blindfolded Elections Board chairman plucked one from a silver loving cup Moss won 12 Two years later Moss would lose re election by 0 03 of the vote 13 2003 nbsp nbsp National Assembly of Quebec Champlain 11 852 PQ candidate Noella Champagne tied with Liberal Pierre Brouillette Consequently a new vote was held 36 days later which Champagne won by 642 votes 14 2017 nbsp nbsp Virginia House of Delegates District 94 11 608 The initial vote count had incumbent Republican David Yancey ahead by 13 votes After a canvas that included provisional ballots Yancey s lead was cut to 10 votes 15 Following a recount Yancey trailed Democratic challenger Shelly Simonds by one vote out of 23 215 cast 16 17 After review by a three judge panel appointed by the Virginia Supreme Court a disputed ballot that had been excluded as an overvote was instead counted for Yancey and the race was certified as a tie with the candidates to draw lots to determine a winner 18 16 The drawing of lots was later postponed after Simonds asked a state court to reconsider the disputed ballot 19 On January 4 2018 the names of each candidate was placed inside a film canister both canisters were placed in a bowl and one canister was drawn at random by State Board of Elections chairman James Alcorn David Yancey won the draw and the seat giving Republicans control of the House 51 49 20 Had Simonds won instead a 50 50 split would have prompted a power sharing arrangement between the two major parties 21 In 2019 the two met in a rematch in a redrawn district and Simonds won 2010 nbsp nbsp Massachusetts House of Representatives 6th Worcester district 6 587 After Peter J Durant was initially declared the winner by 1 vote judge Richard T Tucker ruled that one absentee ballot that was initially discarded was to be counted for Geraldo Alicea creating an exact tie 22 Six months later a special election was held where Durant beat Alicea by 56 votes 23 1963 nbsp nbsp House of Commons of Canada Pontiac Temiscamingue 6 448 Paul Martineau Progressive Conservative and Paul Oliva Goulet Liberal each received 6 448 votes in the Quebec electoral district of Pontiac Temiscamingue Because the vote was tied the returning officer cast his vote for Martineau 24 1988 nbsp nbsp Massachusetts Senate Democratic Primary Plymouth District 4 543 George F Buckley and Michael Creedon tied but Creedon secured the nomination and later the seat 25 1996 nbsp nbsp South Dakota House of Representatives District 12 4 191 Four candidates Democrats John R McIntyre and Dick Casey and Republicans Hal Wick and Judy Rost were contesting two seats In the initial tally they had respectively 4195 24 73 3889 22 93 4191 24 71 and 4687 27 63 votes 16 962 total votes McIntyre was initially declared to have been elected by a four vote margin Wick petitioned for a recount in accordance with SDCL 12 21 12 The recount was conducted in the presence of representatives for both candidates The results were certified on December 4 1996 and showed that Wick had been elected by one vote 4191 24 71 3891 22 94 4192 24 71 4689 27 64 16 963 total votes The South Dakota Supreme Court examined several ballots and invalidated one vote for Wick The House then voted mostly along party lines 46 20 to seat Wick 26 27 28 Remarkably two years later McIntyre and Wick would again tie at least on the initial count 1999 nbsp nbsp Nova Scotia House of Assembly Shelburne 3 206 Progressive Conservative Cecil O Donnell tied with Liberal Clifford Huskilson 3 206 3 206 29 The returning officer broke the tie by pulling Mr O Donnell s name from a box 30 1886 nbsp House of Commons of the United Kingdom Ashton under Lyne 3 049 Conservative incumbent John Edmund Wentworth Addison and Liberal challenger and English cricketer 31 Alexander Butler Rowley were tied 3 049 3 049 The Returning Officer and also mayor 32 33 34 James Walker 35 broke the tie by casting a vote for Addison 36 37 38 39 1978 nbsp nbsp Rhode Island Senate Senatorial District 29 4 110 Both Russell and Flynn had exactly 4 110 votes in the general election On Jan 9th 1979 a special election was held where Flynn beat Russell 2 546 2 038 40 1980 nbsp nbsp New Hampshire Senate Republican Primary District 16 2 438 Incumbent Frank Wageman found himself in a tied election after a hospitalization left him unable to vote in the election Two numbered balls were placed in a black leather bottle and the first one to roll out was the winner Wageman s ball came out first and challenger Eleanor P Podles demanded a recount that did not change the outcome 41 Podles won a rematch in 1982 1994 nbsp nbsp Wyoming House of Representatives District 21 1 941 Republican Randall Luthi and independent candidate Larry Call each received 1 941 votes in a state House race in northern Lincoln County On live TV NBC s Today Show Secretary of State Kathy Karpan drew a ping pong ball with Luthi s name out of Governor Sullivan s rumpled cowboy hat 42 43 1826 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Pennsylvania s 2nd District 1 597 Adams Federalist John Sergeant and Jacksonian Henry Horn tied at 1 597 with a 3rd candidate getting 1 391 votes The governor treated it as a vacancy but did not call a new election until both Sergeant and Horn relinquished their claims Sergeant defeated former Representative Joseph Hemphill in the special election a year later and was seated Residents of the district contested the election arguing that ballots were found that would ve swung the regular election to Horn but the House dismissed the contest because Horn had voluntarily relinquished his rights 44 2006 nbsp nbsp Alaska House of Representatives Democratic Primary District 37 1 534 After a recount a state Supreme Court challenge and wrangling over five disputed ballots the race was decided by a coin toss using a special coin with a walrus on one side and the seal of Alaska on the other 45 Bryce Edgmon the winner of the coin toss went on to be Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives 46 1887 nbsp House of Commons of Canada Joliette 1 532 Conservative Edouard Guilbault tied Liberal F Neveu but won the seat after the deciding vote was cast by the returning officer 47 1896 nbsp House of Commons of Canada Assiniboia West 1 502 Conservative Nicholas Flood Davin tied independent John K McInnes The deciding vote in Davin s favor was cast by the returning officer after the two candidates tied 48 2015 nbsp Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island Vernon River Stratford 1 173 On Declaration Day Mary Ellen McInnis and Alan McIsaac had 1 172 1 174 votes McInnis filed a petition for a judicial recount Provincial Court Judge John Douglas discovered that a vote for Ms McInnis was mistakenly put in the pile for Mr McIsaac The result of the recount was thus that they were tied 1 173 1 173 Pursuant to section 102 of the Election Act the toss of a coin was completed by the Returning Officer The results of the coin toss were in favour of Alan McIsaac 49 50 51 52 53 2022 nbsp New Hampshire House of Representatives Strafford District 8 970 The November 2022 election to this seat in the city of Rochester ended in a tie of 970 970 between Democrat Chuck Grassie and Republican David Walker Despite rumors that the Republican controlled state House would vote to seat Walker anyways a special election was called for February 21 54 In the end Chuck Grassie won with over 55 of the vote a 4 over performance for Democrats 55 56 List of close election results in single winner majoritarian and STV races edit Year Country Region Election District Race Margin Margin votes Total votes cast for winner Description1974 nbsp nbsp United States Senate New Hampshire 0 000901 2 110 926 57 On election day Republican Louis Wyman won with a margin of just 355 votes out of more than 220 000 His opponent John A Durkin then won the recount by 10 votes After a second recount Wyman won by just 2 votes The Democratic controlled Senate at first agreed to seat Wyman who served the last 3 days of Noris Cotton s term but began to deliberate again when the new Senate took office When the Senate deadlocked for months Durkin agreed to Wyman s proposal for a new election The Senate declared the seat vacant and the governor appointed Cotton to hold the seat for six weeks until a special election on September 16 Durkin won the special by 27 000 votes 58 1839 nbsp nbsp Massachusetts gubernatorial Governor of Massachusetts 0 00098 1 51 034 59 Marcus Morton and the incumbent Whig Edward Everett received 51 034 50 725 votes respectively with the remaining 307 votes went to scattering The constitution of Massachusetts required a candidate to receive a majority of votes cast in order to win the office outright otherwise the legislature would have the authority to choose among the leading candidates Morton exceeded this threshold by just 1 vote 50 of the 102 066 ballots cast and had he not the Whig controlled legislature would have been allowed to select the governor The legislature could successfully deprive Morton of a majority if it disqualified the return from the town of Westfield There was moreover an argument for doing so the Westfield return was irregular and improper under the laws of the state because the attestation of its authenticity was not under seal Instead the return had been sealed first and only afterward affixed with an attestation from the relevant local official Despite pressure from partisans to contest this result Everett refused Historian and former Ohio Solicitor General Edward B Foley notes In the annals of American history there is not an equivalent example of a candidate in a major statewide election willing to forgo a victory so tantalizingly within reach based on first such a narrow margin and second such a readily available legal argument for invalidating disputed ballots 60 2020 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Iowa s 2nd District 0 00152 6 196 964 In the House election Democrat Rita Hart lost by only 6 votes to Republican Mariannette Miller Meeks Unofficial results shortly after election day showed Miller Meeks with a 282 vote lead Official results which included late arriving absentee ballots and corrected canvassing errors narrowed that lead to 44 A recount narrowed that vote still further to 6 votes Hart chose not to appeal the election in the contest court arguing that Iowa law didn t allow enough time as from the November 30 certification date the court would ve had only 8 days to organize and then carry out the recount 61 Instead she contested the election in the House of Representatives asking for another recount on the grounds that 22 votes were erroneously excluded due to poll worker error and Iowa law had no way to remedy this and that the recount was not done uniformly over the district 62 Miller Meeks was provisionally sworn in and requested the House Committee on Administration dismiss the contest but that request was denied On March 31 after several Democratic House members publicly stated that they wouldn t vote to change the result Hart withdrew her contest 63 It was the 2nd closest House race in US history and the closest since 1824 1984 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Indiana s 8th District 0 00171 4 116 645 The initial count showed that Democrat Frank McCloskey had won by 72 votes but Indiana s Republican Secretary of State refused to certify him pending a legal challenge by his Republican challenger Rick McIntyre 64 After a tabulation error was found a month later McIntyre took the lead by 34 votes and was certified by the Secretary even though a recount was on going 65 When the House opened it chose to seat neither person but to pay them as though they were both members The statewide recount was completed in late January and gave McIntyre a 418 vote lead but against the Democratic controlled House chose not to seat McIntyre against the wishes of Republicans 66 The House conducted their own recount in which they made several controversial decisions and seated McCloskey after declaring him the winner by just four votes Republicans who sought to declare the election void and call for a special election staged a procedural protest and a walk out to protest what they viewed as a stolen seat 67 68 2013 nbsp Australian Senate Western Australia 0 002125 1 23 532 69 Before senate electoral reform in 2016 the Australian senate was elected by a series of complex preference deals At one point the next party to be eliminated was between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the Australian Christians The margin was effectively one vote at that point in the count and depending on which party was ahead either the Labor Party and PUP or the Sports Party and the Greens would have been elected As the recount was taking place it became apparent that there were some missing ballots which was greater than the margin so the election was voided and a re run was conducted in 2014 70 2023 nbsp nbsp Caddo Parish sheriff Sheriff of Caddo Parish 0 002312 1 21 624 In the runoff election Henry Whitehorn a Democrat defeated Republican John Nickelson by one vote After a court challenge the election was reran Whitehorn won again with a larger margin 71 1910 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives New York s 36th District 0 00242 1 20 685 Charles Bennett Smith a Democrat defeated the incumbent Representative De Alva S Alexander a Republican by one vote 20 685 to 20 684 72 1988 nbsp nbsp Massachusetts Governor s Council Democratic Primary 3rd District 0 00340 1 14 716 Herbert L Connolly lost to Robert B Kennedy by one vote and it was his own Connolly arrived at his precinct a few minutes after the polls closed and wasn t able to vote Kennedy won the following general 73 74 2003 nbsp nbsp Russian legislative Sverdlovsk Oblast District 163 0 00342 5 73 083 Incumbent Georgy Leontyev held the seat by five votes 75 despite allegations of vote manipulations later rejected by the Supreme Court 76 1919 nbsp Australian House of Representatives Ballarat 0 00369 1 13 569 Edwin Kerby defeated incumbent MP Charles McGrath by a single vote The result was voided by the Court of Disputed Returns which criticised the almost incredible carelessness of the electoral officers McGrath won the subsequent by election 77 1997 nbsp United Kingdom general Winchester 0 00383 2 26 100 In the General Election Mark Oaten led Gerry Malone by 2 votes 26 100 26 098 78 A total of 55 ballot papers were excluded from the count for want of official mark of which 18 were votes in favor of Oaten and 22 in favor of Malone Therefore Malone would have had a majority of 2 votes had they been included in the count On hearing an Election Petition in the High Court on 6 October 1997 Lord Justice Brooke and Mr Justice Gage ordered that there should be a fresh election The petition also stated that four voters cast tendered ballots after claiming to have been impersonated but the impersonators could not be found and the allegation was not pursued 79 In the subsequent by election Oaten easily beat Malone 37 006 15 450 1992 nbsp Philippine Senate At large 0 00398 966 3 964 966 The Philippine Senate is elected via multiple non transferable vote The 24th placed candidate Butz Aquino of LDP edged out Alfredo Bengzon of Lakas to win out the last Senate seat 2023 nbsp nbsp Buenos Aires Province local Pinamar Partido 0 00414 1 8 115 80 Juan Ibarguren PRO JxC won the mayorship against Gregorio Estanga PJ UP An initial lead of 19 votes was reduced to a single vote after Estanga asked for a vote recount 81 1882 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Virginia s 1st District 0 00476 1 10 505 The initial tally had incumbent Democrat George T Garrison up 70 votes on Readjuster challenger Robert M Mayo The Readjuster controlled State Board of Canvassers then threw out the votes of Gloucester County and Hog Island precinct Garrison had received all 14 votes from Hog Island The new totals then had Mayo up one 10 505 10 504 A third candidate the Republican John W Woltz received 168 votes 82 Mayo was seated and served for a little over a year but Garrison contested the result The Committee of Elections then chose to accept the Gloucester County and Hog Island ballots and the House voted unanimously to seat Garrison 83 1868 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives North Carolina s 7th District 0 004841 1 10 329 Plato Durham D was initially declared elected over Alexander H Jones R with an 18 vote majority 10 347 10 329 When Republicans began to complain of fraud the votes were sent to General Canby at Charleston who threw out enough for Jones to defeat Durham Jones was then elected by 1 vote 10 329 10 328 84 85 86 87 88 2004 nbsp nbsp Washington gubernatorial Governor of Washington 0 004842 133 1 373 361 89 Democrat Christine Gregoire defeated Republican Dino Rossi following two recounts after the initial count and first recount showed Rossi as the winner 1931 nbsp United Kingdom general Ilkeston 0 00569 2 17 587 A J Flint National Labour gained the seat from George Oliver Labour After the polls closed it became clear that the Ilkeston election was very close There were four recounts overnight and the Returning Officer decided to call a halt in the early hours to return later in the day At the end of the fifth recount the Returning Officer declared Flint elected by a majority of two votes over the sitting Labour MP This result remains the joint smallest majority in any individual constituency election since universal suffrage 90 2002 nbsp Irish general Limerick West 0 00584 1 8 564 91 92 Going into the fourth and final count sitting Fine Gael TD Dan Neville trailed his party colleague Michael Finucane also an outgoing TD 7 862 to 7 867 in the race for the third and final seat He picked up 702 votes transferred from the eliminated candidates six more than his opponent to win by one vote Finucane requested a recount but when it became clear that the margin of his defeat would only increase he requested the returning officer to terminate the recount thus leaving the official margin of defeat at one vote I am happy enough with the findings and I accept it Democracy has spoken and I am sure there are many people out there feeling sorry at this stage that they didn t vote for me to tip me over the line 93 94 1854 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Illinois 7th District 0 00592 1 8 452 On the initial tally incumbent Democrat James C Allen was ahead of challenger Republican William B Archer by one vote 8452 8451 Archer contested Livingston precinct had initially certified Allen and Archer s votes as 47 100 in that precinct But they later certified that they had made a mistake and the vote in that precinct should instead have been 46 102 In which case the overall vote should have been 8 451 8 453 The Committee of Elections concluded that Allen had won by at least 1 and probably 2 votes and recommended that he be seated However the House voted 94 90 that Allen was not qualified and also voted 91 89 that Archer would not be seated either The seat was thus vacated 95 96 A special election in 1856 was a rematch between Allen and Archer and Allen soundly defeated Archer 13 081 10 136 97 2000 nbsp South Korean legislature Gwangju 0 00614 3 16 675 GNP Park Hyuk kyu defeated MDP Moon Hak jin by an official tally of 3 vote difference 98 1966 nbsp United Kingdom general Peterborough 0 00626 3 23 944 Conservative Party incumbent Sir Harmar Nicholls defeated Labour Party challenger Michael Ward 23 944 23 941 Ward would again challenge and lose in 1970 and Feb 1974 but would win in Oct 1974 1847 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Indiana s 6th District 0 0067 1 7 455 Whig George G Dunn defeated Democrat David M Dobson 7 455 7 454 99 2017 nbsp United Kingdom general North East Fife 0 00727 2 13 743 Stephen Gethins of the Scottish National Party saw off a challenge by Elizabeth Riches of the Liberal Democrats to retain the seat of former leader Menzies Campbell 100 1962 nbsp nbsp Minnesota gubernatorial Governor of Minnesota 0 00734 91 619 842 The vote count after election day had Governor Elmer L Andersen in the lead by 142 votes Then Lieutenant Governor Karl Rolvaag went to court and won the right for a recount 101 After the recount it was determined that Rolvaag of the DFL had defeated Andersen Republican by 91 votes out of over 1 2 million cast Rolvaag collected 619 842 votes to Andersen s 619 751 2020 nbsp nbsp North Carolina Judicial Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court 0 00744 401 2 695 951 Following a count recount and hand to eye recount in 1 of precincts Incumbent Chief Justice Cheri Beasley was defeated by Justice Paul Newby The result meant that Republicans won all 8 statewide judicial races in the 2020 general election 102 1916 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Iowa s 11th District 0 00768 4 26 033 In the initial vote count the sitting member Republican George C Scott won by a majority of 131 votes which Thomas J Steele contested alleging failure to count votes cast for the contestant and illegal counting of votes for the contestee After a series of recounts during which the lead switched back and forth and the contest was even tied at one point the tally changed to 26 033 26 029 and after some legal wrangling about lost ballots and votes by Iowa National Guardsmen serving at the Texas border Scott was declared elected by the Democratically controlled House 103 1991 nbsp nbsp Virginia House of Delegates District 53 0 00770 1 6 493 After a recount Jim Scott won by a single vote earning him the nickname Landslide Jim 104 2018 nbsp nbsp Kentucky House of Representatives 13th Representative District 0 0079 1 6 319 In the initial count Democrat Jim Glenn defeated Republican incumbent DJ Johnson by 1 vote which was confirmed by a recanvass Johnson filed for a recount and Glenn was seated on January 8 2019 The House later ordered another recount which was carried out over the weekend of January 30 105 106 Following that recount Glenn emerged as the winner by 3 votes but then the County Board of Electors voted to reinstate one of the votes taken from Johnson earlier in the day and later to count five of 17 rejected absentee ballot The result was a 6 323 6 323 tie 107 108 On February 8 2019 when Glenn threatened to sue if a coin toss were held and he lost Johnson withdrew his challenge thus settling the election 109 2014 nbsp nbsp North Carolina District Court District 5 0 00813 5 30 746 Lindsey McKee Luther defeated Kent Harrell for North Carolina District Court District 5 by five votes 30 746 30 741 110 1974 nbsp United Kingdom general Carmarthen 0 00851 3 17 165 Labour Party incumbent Gwynoro Jones defeated Plaid Cymru candidate Gwynfor Evans 17 165 17 162 111 Jones had also beaten Evans in 1970 but would lose to Evans in Oct 1974 2002 nbsp nbsp Washington House of Representatives Republican Primary 26th Legislative District 0 00852 1 5 870 Ed Mitchell defeated Kevin Entze by one vote 5 870 5 869 112 113 Adding insult to injury one of Entze s friends admitted that they never got their ballot mailed He left his ballot on his kitchen counter and it never got sent out Entze said 114 Mitchell went on to narrowly lose the general election 115 1912 nbsp nbsp Kansas gubernatorial Governor of Kansas 0 00866 29 167 437 George H Hodges defeated the popular Republican Arthur Capper by a razor thin margin of 29 votes out of 359 684 cast 116 117 118 1948 nbsp nbsp United States Senate Democratic Primary Runoff Texas 0 00880 87 494 191 Lyndon B Johnson is declared the winner over Coke R Stevenson despite suspicion about 202 votes reported six days after the election from Precinct 13 of Jim Wells County 1996 nbsp nbsp Vermont Senate Rutland County 0 00911 2 10 978 119 There were six candidates for the three Rutland County Senate seats On the night of the election John H Bloomer Jr and Cheryl M Hooker received the first and second highest vote totals Hull Maynard received the third highest total with 10 952 votes and Thomas Macaulay received the fourth highest total with 10 934 votes Macaulay petitioned for a recount whereupon the Rutland Superior Court determined that Maynard still beat Macaulay by two votes 10 978 10 976 Macaulay s petition for further relief was dismissed by the Senate 120 121 122 2000 nbsp nbsp United States presidential Florida 0 00921 537 2 912 790 Republican George W Bush was ahead of Democrat Al Gore after the initial count by 1 784 votes After a mandatory statewide recount his lead was cut to 327 123 After military and overseas ballots were added in his lead increased to 930 124 An additional hand recount was halted by the United States Supreme Court which resulted in the certified margin Florida was the tipping point state for Bush s presidential victory 2001 nbsp Italian Senate Marino 0 00929 14 62 330 Olive Tree candidate Severino Lavagnini it was elected but the defeated House of Freedoms candidate won a seat via levelling seats 1982 nbsp nbsp New Hampshire Senate District 8 0 00934 1 5 352 Incumbent George Wiggins R defeated Fred Belair D by 1 vote 125 2010 nbsp United Kingdom general Fermanagh and South Tyrone 0 00939 4 21 304 Michelle Gildernew Sinn Fein defeated independent Rodney Connor 126 2022 nbsp nbsp Connecticut House of Representatives District 81 0 00944 1 10 593 Democrat Chris Poulos defeated Republican Tony Morrison by 1 vote 127 2022 nbsp nbsp California State Senate District 16 0 009495 13 68 461 Democratic incumbent Melissa Hurtado defeated Republican David Shepard by 13 votes 128 1970 nbsp nbsp Missouri House of Representatives District 116 0 01037 1 4 819 Both the initial count and a recount showed that incumbent Gus Salley R Warsaw had defeated Morran D Harris D Osceola though a clerical error cost Salley 100 votes indicating the real result was not nearly as close 1 Harris brought the case to the House Election Committee to decide but they chose not to overturn the results 129 1832 nbsp nbsp United States presidential Maryland 0 01044 4 19 160 National Republican Henry Clay carried Maryland by four votes over Democratic President Andrew Jackson but this is trivial since all of the electors were chosen based on the outcome in four districts Had Jackson won the statewide vote it wouldn t have changed the electoral college vote 130 1910 nbsp United Kingdom general Exeter 0 0105 1 4 777 Henry Duke Conservative the incumbent at the time of the general election re gained the seat from Harold St Maur Liberal on an election petition in 1911 The court changed the original result under which the Liberal had won by four votes The revised result was the smallest numerical majority in a UK Parliamentary election in the twentieth century 131 2015 nbsp nbsp Mississippi House of Representatives District 79 0 0109 1 4 585 After Democratic incumbent Blaine Eaton tied Republican Mark Tullos with 4 589 votes each he won re election by drawing the long straw 132 However Tullos asked the State House to review the results which they did resulting in them throwing out five affidavit ballots for Eaton The ballots were cast by people who had moved within 30 days prior to the election and hadn t updated their address The vote that seated Tullos was largely a party line vote and gave Republicans a super majority 133 Which five ballots were invalidated was never publicly stated but they were all for Eaton and so the committee stopped evaluation the votes because even if the other four were for Tullos and also invalid Tullos would still win by 1 vote The final official count is unknown and the count here is based on that decision 134 2022 nbsp nbsp Arizona general Arizona Attorney General 0 01116 280 1 254 809 Democrat Kris Mayes originally defeated Republican Abraham Hamadeh by 511 votes but after a recount her lead narrowed to 280 votes 135 2001 nbsp Cape Verdean presidential President of Cape Verde 0 0112 17 75 828 136 Pedro Pires African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde defeated Carlos Veiga Movement for Democracy in the second round of the election after neither won more than 50 in the first round 137 1924 nbsp United Kingdom general Leeds West 0 0114 3 13 057 Labour Party candidate Thomas Stamford defeated Conservative Party candidate A F G Renton 13 057 13 054 This was the lowest margin of victory in a Leeds parliamentary election 138 1908 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Massachusetts s 10th District 0 0121 4 16 533 139 Representative Joseph F O Connell a Democrat defeated J Mitchel Galvin a Republican by four votes 16 553 to 16 549 140 The record does not disclose the official returns but a recount before a bipartisan board under the laws of Massachusetts gave O Connell 16 553 votes Galvin 16 549 votes and two other candidates 1 380 and 1 187 votes respectively a plurality of 4 votes for Galvin the sitting Member 141 1923 nbsp United Kingdom general Devon Tiverton 0 0122 3 12 303 Liberal Party incumbent Francis Dyke Acland defeated Conservative Party candidate Gilbert John Acland Troyte 12 303 12 300 Acland had also defeated Acland Troyte in the by election earlier that same year but Acland Troyte would defeat Acland in 1924 142 1972 nbsp nbsp Canadian federal Ontario 0 0123 4 16 328 Liberal incumbent Norman Cafik defeated Progressive Conservative Frank Charles McGee 143 A PC win in this district would have resulted in a 108 108 tie with the Liberals in the overall seat count 2018 nbsp Italian Chamber of Deputies Guidonia Montecelio 0 01269 19 55 360 M5S candidate Sebastiano Cubeddu it defeated CDX candidate Barbara Saltamartini 2008 nbsp nbsp United States Senate Minnesota 0 01287 312 1 212 629 After the first count Norm Coleman edged out Al Franken by 215 votes but following a state mandated recount Al Franken defeated Norm Coleman by 225 144 Coleman contested the recount after which Franken s lead grew to 312 After the Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously rejected Coleman s appeals he conceded the race to Franken on June 30 2009 238 days after the election 145 1929 nbsp United Kingdom general Cheshire Northwich 0 01292 4 15 477 In this three way race Conservative Party incumbent Lord Colum Crichton Stuart defeated Labour Party candidate Mrs Barbara Ayrton Gould 15 477 15 473 Chrichton Stuart also defeated Mrs Gould in 1924 and 1931 146 1994 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Connecticut s 2nd district 0 0133 21 79 188 In this three way race between Democrat Sam Gejdenson Republican Edward Munster and Connecticut Party candidate David Bingham the initial official tally was 79 169 79 167 27 729 186 065 total votes 147 Following a recount Gejdenson and Munster were 79 160 79 156 with 186 030 total votes cast The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled instead that the correct final tally was 79 188 79 167 awarding the seat to Gejdenson 148 However the Court did not mention what the correct total number of votes cast was Munster originally contested the election in the Republican controlled House but withdrew his contest citing the expense and time it would take 149 1964 nbsp nbsp Selangor State Legislative Assembly Kepong 0 0134 2 7 487 Tan Chee Khoon president of the Labour Party of Selangor defeated the incumbent Chan Keong Hon of the Malaysian Chinese Association by two votes 150 At the time Chan was a member of the state executive council 2016 nbsp nbsp Vermont Senate Democratic Primary Washington County District 0 0135 1 3 709 Superior Court Judge Timothy Tomasi determined that Francis K Brooks defeated fourth place finisher Ashley Hill by one vote in the Democratic primary for the three member at large Washington County district 3 709 to 3 708 151 The victory hinged on a disputed ballot from Worcester that Tomasi determined contained a vote for Brooks but not one for Hill 151 Brooks went on to finish third in the general election that fall unseating longtime incumbent Republican Bill Doyle by 191 votes 152 1968 nbsp nbsp South Australian House of Assembly Seat of Millicent 0 0138 1 3 635 153 On 2 March 1968 Martin Cameron contested the seat of Millicent for the House of Assembly standing against the sitting member and minister in the Labor Cabinet Des Corcoran Narrowly losing the seat by one vote 3635 3634 the Liberal and Country League challenged the decision and the election was referred to the South Australian Court of Disputed Returns The court ordered a by election which was held on 22 June This was won comfortably by Corcoran 3994 3564 the Dunstan led Australian Labor Party running the campaign on electoral reform 154 1930 nbsp Canadian federal Yamaska 0 0143 1 3 505 Liberal incumbent Aime Boucher defeated Conservative Paul Francois Comtois 155 The riding result was later declared void and Boucher won the by election in 1933 by 84 votes 0 1 1968 nbsp Canadian federal Leeds 0 01478 4 13 536 Progressive Conservative Desmond Code defeated Liberal incumbent John Matheson 156 1945 nbsp United Kingdom general Worcester 0 01479 4 13 523 In this three way race Conservative Party candidate George Ward defeated Labour Party Co operative Party candidate J Evans 13 523 13 519 157 2020 nbsp nbsp Queensland Legislative Assembly Bundaberg 0 0148 9 30 287 Australian Labor Party candidate Tom Smith won the seat unseating Liberal National Party MP David Batt by just 9 votes after distribution of minor candidate preferences The margin had been initially reported as 11 votes but was reduced to 9 votes after a formal recount 158 1949 nbsp Canadian federal Annapolis Kings 0 0152 4 13 202 Liberal Angus Alexander Elderkin defeated Progressive Conservative incumbent George Nowlan 159 2020 nbsp nbsp Florida State Senate District 37 0 01529 32 104 630 After the initial tally challenger Ileana Garcia led incumbent Jose Javier Rodriguez by 21 votes An automatic hand recount extended that lead to 32 votes The race was marred by fraud as a 3rd party candidate also with the last name Rodriquez received more than 6000 votes after being funded by a mysterious donor who funded an ad campaign that seemed designed to confuse voters 160 A few months after the election the candidate Alex Rodriguez pleaded guilty to accepting illegal campaign donations and lying on campaign documents and agreed to testify against former Sen Frank Artiles who had been charged with felony campaign fraud charges in March 2021 161 1968 nbsp nbsp Wisconsin House of Representatives District 25 0 01533 2 6 523 Official count showed a margin of 3 vote for Joseph L Looby D over Wilmer R Waters R but it was 1 after a recount A case was filed with the circuit court where the judge declared the margin was two votes An election committee investigated but could make no proclamation of the true margin After Waters appealed to the Republican controlled assembly it voted unanimously to seat Looby 1 162 2002 nbsp nbsp Connecticut House of Representatives District 65 0 0155 1 3 236 Republican Anne Ruwet defeated Democrat John S Kovaleski by one vote 3 236 3 235 163 1922 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives New York s 21st District 0 0156 10 32 089 Sitting Member Royal H Weller had been returned by an official plurality of 245 votes which the contestant Martin C Ansorge contested Following a recount the tally was 32 089 32 079 and Weller was declared elected 164 1964 nbsp United Kingdom general Brighton Kemptown 0 0157 7 22 308 Labour Party challenger Dennis Hobden defeated incumbent Conservative Party David James 22 308 22 301 165 2022 nbsp 2022 North Carolina state legislature Republican primary North Carolina House of Representatives District 115 0 0159 1 3 146 After a hand eye recount that added one vote to his total Pratik Bhakta defeated Sherry M Higgins 166 1870 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Indiana s 4th District 0 0159 4 12 561 Republican Jeremiah M Wilson defeated Democrat David S Gooding by 4 votes 12561 12557 167 Gooding contested The Committee s majority report gave Wilson a clear legal majority of 8 while the minority report gave Gooding a majority of 17 The US House then voted 105 64 71 abstentions on strictly party lines to reject the minority report accept the majority report and thereby seat Wilson 168 169 170 1950 nbsp nbsp Maryland Senate Garrett County 0 0162 1 3 080 Republican incumbent Neil C Fraley defeated Democratic challenger Bernard I Gonder by one vote 3 080 3 079 171 172 173 174 Gonder contested the result but to no avail 175 1983 nbsp United Kingdom general Leicester South 0 0163 7 21 424 Conservative Party challenger Derek Spencer defeated Labour Party incumbent Jim Marshall 21 424 21 417 2004 nbsp nbsp Kelantan State Legislative Assembly Kemuning 0 01646 2 6 078 The Kemuning state constituency was shifted east in the 2004 redelineation absorbing most of the abolished Banggol Judah constituency Incumbent Banggol Judah assemblyman Zakaria Yaacob retained the seat for PAS by two votes against UMNO candidate Wan Mohamad Zin Mat Amin 6 078 6 076 Crucially this allowed PAS to maintain control of the Kelantan assembly throughout the term as it won 24 seats to UMNO s 22 and UMNO subsequently cut PAS margin to one seat by winning the 2005 Pengkalan Pasir by election 1988 nbsp Canadian federal London Middlesex 0 0165 8 18 534 Progressive Conservative MP Terry Clifford narrowly edged out Liberal Garnet Bloomfield 176 2005 nbsp nbsp Virginia General Virginia Attorney General 0 01663 323 970 886 Bob McDonnell was certified as the victor over Creigh Deeds following a recount 177 1988 nbsp nbsp Massachusetts Governor s Council Democratic Primary 3rd District 0 0170 5 14 709 In the recount Robert B Kennedy led Herbert Connolly by one vote 14 716 14 715 178 Connolly had actually failed to vote for himself 179 In the recount Kennedy again led by one vote 14 691 14 690 Connolly contested the result The Supreme Judicial Court considered 116 contested votes and decided ultimately that Kennedy won by five votes 14 709 14 704 180 1829 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Kentucky s 2nd District 0 0179 1 5 591 Jacksonsian candidate Nicholas D Coleman defeated Adams candidate Adam Beatty 2520 2519 181 2018 nbsp Pakistani general Mardan II 0 0181 35 78 911 Awami National Party s Ameer Haider Hoti defeated Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf s Atif Khan 78 911 78 876 182 2011 nbsp Canadian federal Montmagny L Islet Kamouraska Riviere du Loup 0 0189 9 17 285 Conservative incumbent Bernard Genereux was initially declared the winner by 311 votes Subsequently the returning officer determined that approximately 300 votes for the New Democratic candidate Francois Lapointe had been allocated to the Green Party candidate in error After the correction Lapointe was declared elected by 5 votes prompting an automatic judicial recount As a result of this recount Lapointe was confirmed as the victor over Genereux by 9 votes 17 285 17 276 183 1936 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives New Hampshire s 1st District 0 0193 20 51 702 After the initial count Republican Arthur B Jenks was declared the winner by 550 votes however a recount left the vote tied at 51 690 votes each Both parties contested ballots 108 in total to the state ballot law commission which after ruling on each determined that Alphonse Roy had won 51 695 51 678 After those hearings were over Jenks argued that there was a 36 ballot discrepancy between those cast and those counted in Newton The ballot law commission called for another recount finding the count was now 51 702 to 51 678 but also that 34 ballots were missing and that they should be awarded to Jenks making him the winner by 10 votes Roy contested and though Jenks wasn t sworn in until 2 days after Congress met he did take office During Roy s contest the majority of the Committee on Elections found that though there was a discrepancy between the ballots and the tally sheet there was no evidence that any ballots had disappeared due to fraud or mistake and that in such a conflict the ballots should be considered the best evidence of the votes cast and they found that four additional ballots should be awarded to Jenks raising his total to 51 682 The minority of the committee argued that they could establish both by testimony and the tally sheets that more people had voted in Newton than there were ballots to count that in every race in Newton Republicans had lost 34 votes in the recount and Democrats had lost zero and that the number of ballots used and unused returned to the state was 34 lower than what was sent In the end the Democratically controlled House decided to accept the majority s position and on June 9 1938 Jenks was removed from office and Roy was seated Jenks then won election five months later and served until 1943 184 185 2003 nbsp Somaliland presidential President of Somaliland 0 0195 80 205 595 Dahir Riyale Kahin of the For Unity Democracy and Independence party narrowly defeated the Peace Unity and Development Party s Ahmed M Mahamoud Silanyo in a three way race 186 unreliable source 1974 nbsp United Kingdom general Bodmin 0 0196 9 20 283 Liberal challenger Paul Tyler defeated Conservative Party incumbent Robert Hicks 20 283 20 274 187 2021 nbsp nbsp Northern Territory local government Mayor of Alice Springs 0 020437 2 4 894 After distribution of preferences independent candidate Matt Paterson led fellow independent Jimmy Cocking by 2 votes Cocking requested a new recount but it was rejected 188 2001 nbsp Italian Senate Rome Centre 0 0196 29 68 773 House of Freedoms candidate Giulio Maceratini was elected but the defeated The Olive Tree Tana De Zulueta candidate won a seat via levelling seats 2006 nbsp nbsp Oklahoma House of Representatives District 25 0 0208 2 4 798 Initially Democrat Darrel Nemecek beat Republican Todd Thomsen by two votes for the Oklahoma House of Representatives seat in its 25th district But during the recount a Hughes County judge threw out four votes for Nemecek when it was discovered the voters who cast the contested ballots were not registered to vote in the district Though Nemecek argued that the straight party option was confusing and voter intent was clear on some ballots that were not counted for him Thomsen was declared the winner and sworn in 189 190 191 2004 nbsp nbsp Commonwealth s Attorney Special Election Radford District 0 0211 1 2 375 Chris E Rehak defeated Patrick Moore by 1 vote and a recount didn t change the margin 192 1820 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Maryland s 6th District 0 02136 1 2 341 The race for Maryland s 6th District House Seat was originally declared a tie and so the Governor and Council of Maryland in what they thought was accordance of the law decided to seat Jeremiah Cosden Phillip Reed who like Cosden was a Democratic Republican contested the election The House decided that the Governor and Council were not allowed to choose a winner that two votes for Reed that were excluded ought to count and that one that was counted for him was illegal As a result Cosden who had been seated for 15 days was removed and Reed was seated for the remainder of the term 44 193 2021 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Democratic Primary Florida s 20th District 0 02144 5 11 662 In the Democratic primary for the chance to replace Alcee Hastings who had died in April healthcare executive Sheila Cherfilus McCormick defeated Broward County Commissioner Dale Holness by just 5 votes The election day results had Cherfilus McCormick ahead by 12 votes but a recount narrowed that lead to 5 194 1896 nbsp Canadian federal Ontario North 0 0215 1 2 328 Liberal Conservative John Alexander McGillivray defeated Patrons of Industry Duncan Graham 48 2022 nbsp nbsp New York State Assembly New York s 99th State Assembly district 0 021575 8 18 539 Democrat Chris Eachus defeated Republican Kathryn Luciani by 8 votes following a hand recount 195 1900 nbsp Canadian federal Selkirk 0 0230 1 2 172 Liberal William Forsythe McCreary defeated Conservative John Herber Haslam 196 This was the second time in a row that a Liberal candidate defeated his Conservative rival in this riding by a single vote 1904 nbsp nbsp United States presidential Maryland 0 0233 51 109 497 Republican President Theodore Roosevelt barely carried Maryland over Democrat Alton Parker on his way to an electoral landslide 197 1970 nbsp United Kingdom general Ipswich 0 0234 13 27 704 Conservative Party challenger Ernle Money defeated Labour Party incumbent Dingle Foot 27 704 27 691 198 1959 nbsp United Kingdom general South East Derbyshire 0 0236 12 25 374 Conservative Party challenger John Jackson defeated Labour Party incumbent Arthur Champion 25 374 25 362 199 2010 nbsp nbsp Texas House of Representatives District 48 0 02398 12 25 023 Election Day results gave Democrat Donna Howard a 16 vote victory Following a recount that lead was cut to 12 votes Republican Dan Neil requested the election by investigated by the House of Representatives 200 After a four day hearing headed up by Representative Will Hartnett Howard was found to have won the election by 4 votes and Neil ultimately dropped the contest 200 The Secretary of State still reports an official margin of 12 votes 201 1964 nbsp United Kingdom general Reading 0 02402 10 20 815 Conservative Party incumbent Peter Emery defeated Labour Party challenger John Lee 20 815 20 810 Lee would later defeat Emery in 1966 202 1822 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives New York s 29th District 0 0241 1 2 072 Initially Isaac Wilson and Parmenio Adams had 2 093 2 077 votes On a recount the tally changed to 2 071 2 072 There were also irregularities raised The committee of elections considered it doubtful from the evidence who ought to have been returned The House then voted 116 85 to seat Adams 203 2021 nbsp Canadian federal Chateauguay Lacolle 0 02412 12 18 029 Liberal incumbent Brenda Shanahan Defeats Bloc Quebecois candidate Patrick O Hara after a recount 1900 nbsp Canadian federal Bruce North 0 02418 1 2 065 Liberal Conservative incumbent Alexander McNeill defeated Liberal J E Campbell 196 Later the election was voided 2022 nbsp Italian Chamber of Deputies Ravenna 0 02419 44 75 596 CDX candidate Alice Buonguerrieri it defeated CSX candidate Ouidad Bakkali it 1964 nbsp United Kingdom general Eton and Slough 0 024255 11 22 681 Conservative Party challenger Anthony Meyer defeated Labour Party incumbent Fenner Brockway 22 681 22 670 204 1923 nbsp United Kingdom general Durham Sedgefield 0 0252 6 11 093 Conservative Party challenger Leonard Ropner defeated Labour Party incumbent John Herriotts 11 093 11 087 205 2016 nbsp nbsp New York Senate 8th District 0 0256 33 64 499 John Brooks secured a spot in the State Senate by defeating incumbent Republican Michael Venditto 206 1980 nbsp nbsp Utah House of Representatives District 44 0 0259 1 1 931 A recount gave Republican Bob Curran a 1 vote victory over the incumbent Democrat Jen Patterson after leading by 2 votes following the official canvass 1 207 1914 nbsp Australian House of Representatives Werriwa 0 0266 7 13 162 John Lynch defeated the sitting member Alfred Conroy by seven votes 77 1930 nbsp Canadian federal Norfolk Elgin 0 0266 5 9 424 Liberal William H Taylor defeated Conservative John Lawrence Stansell 155 1832 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Ohio s 7th District 0 02675 2 3 739 William Allen later 31st Governor of Ohio defeated General and 11th Governor of Ohio Duncan McArthur by two votes 3739 3737 208 According to Niles National Register a third candidate by the name of Murphy also won 55 votes 209 1899 nbsp New Zealand House of Representatives Riccarton 0 02678 1 1 867 Incumbent MP William Rolleston lost his seat to Liberal challenger George Warren Russell after a margin of only 1 vote separated the two on the final count 210 1876 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Massachusetts 3rd District 0 0268 5 9 313 211 depending on which count use After much investigation the Committee of Elections gave Walbridge Field the 5 vote majority over Benjamin Dean 1970 nbsp nbsp Massachusetts House of Representatives Democratic Primary 14th Essex 0 02722 3 5 513 In a 3 way race Edward J Grimley Jr topped Gerard A Guilmette by 3 votes but Guilmette ran in the general and topped him by 2 2 The two would meet again in both the 1972 primary and general with Grimley winning both also in close races Guilmette would then serve two terms representing 25th Essex 212 1970 nbsp nbsp Massachusetts House of Representatives Democratic Primary 17th Worcester 0 02723 2 3 674 Andrew Collaro defeated Robert J Bohigian but then Bohigian defeated him by 900 votes in the general Collaro and Bohigian would repeat this process in 1972 and then Collaro would represent 22nd and 15th Worcester from 1974 to 1992 Bohigian would serve until he lost re election in 1990 213 2017 nbsp French legislative 2nd round Loiret s 4th constituency 0 0275 8 14 561 Four term incumbent Jean Pierre Door of The Republicans LR narrowly defeated Melusine Harle of La Republique En Marche by 8 votes in the second round Harle filed an appealed the result to the Constitutional Council 214 which annulled the election on 18 December 2017 due to the number of ballots not corresponding to the number of signatures in one commune and the improper dissemination of electoral materials which was considered sufficient to potentially have altered the result of the election 215 Door won the seat in a 2018 election 1843 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Indiana s 7th District 0 0276 3 5 441 Democrat Joseph A Wright defeated Whig Edward W McGaughey 5 441 5 438 216 2022 nbsp nbsp New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 16 District 0 0278 1 1 799 After initially being behind by 23 votes Democrat Maxine Mosley defeated Republican Larry Gagne by 1 vote after a recount 217 2007 nbsp Australian federal Division of McEwen 0 02794 31 48 339 Liberal Fran Bailey defeated Labor Rob Mitchell following a recount and court challenge 218 219 1891 nbsp Canadian federal Wentworth South 0 02821 1 1 773 Conservative Franklin Carpenter defeated Liberal James T Russell 220 1914 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives New York s 1st District 0 02822 10 17 726 Initial election returns handed Republican Frederick C Hicks a 15 vote win over Representative Lathrop Brown a Democrat A review of ballots by the New York Supreme Court took more than a year and when it was completed the lead was cut to four votes 17 726 to 17 722 140 221 A review by the Court of Appeals changed the plurality to 10 votes Hicks was issued a certificate of election on December 21 1915 more than 13 months after he election making this one of the longest in the history of the House Brown contested the election arguing that there were errors made by the inspectors and that some precinct workers were drunk on election day but the House found that they could not review the ballots unless the returns had been discredited which they had not 222 1970 nbsp nbsp Rhode Island House of Representatives District 26 0 0284 1 1 760 After recounts Democrat John F Hagan beat the Republican nominee Benedetto A Cerilli 1 223 1997 nbsp United Kingdom general Torbay 0 0285 12 21 094 Liberal Democrat candidate Adrian Sanders gained the seat from the sitting Conservative MP Rupert Allason 224 1887 nbsp Canadian federal Haldimand 0 02865 1 1 746 Conservative Walter Humphries Montague defeated Liberal incumbent Charles Wesley Colter 47 2022 nbsp nbsp Maryland County Executive Democratic Primary Montgomery County Executive 0 0287 32 111 246 Marc Elrich originally defeated challenger David Blair by 35 votes but after a recount that narrowed to 32 The race was a rematch of 2018 where Elrich defeated Blair by only 77 votes 0 103 225 1896 nbsp Canadian federal Selkirk 0 02920 1 1 713 Liberal John Alexander MacDonell defeated Conservative Hugh Armstrong 48 1979 nbsp nbsp Virginia Senate District 37 0 0293 9 15 379 Madison Marye D defeated Edwin E Stone R by 20 votes and a December 4 1979 narrowed the margin to 9 226 1935 nbsp Canadian federal Vancouver Burrard 0 0294 6 10 215 Liberal Gerald Grattan McGeer defeated Co operative Commonwealth candidate Arnold Alexander Webster by 6 votes 227 2016 nbsp Philippine House of Representatives Northern Samar s 1st District 0 02951 47 80 157 Liberal incumbent Raul Daza defeated Nacionalista Harlin Abayon in a rematch of the 2013 election where Abayon won by 52 votes Daza won against Abayon s protest in the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal 228 2020 nbsp Bosnia and Herzegovina mayoral Kalesija 0 0305 5 5 572 The incumbent mayor of Kalesija Sead Dzafic declared victory while leading in the preliminary results by 58 votes but postal votes put his challenger Zijad Kulanic ahead by just one vote After discarding invalid ballots from one polling station Dzafic took the lead again with 5 votes 229 230 1912 nbsp nbsp United States presidential California 0 0307 174 283 610 Former President Theodore Roosevelt running on the Republican and Progressive ballot lines in California Republican President William Howard Taft was not on the ballot in the state although he did receive 3 914 write in votes narrowly edged out Democrat Woodrow Wilson in California but Wilson won a landslide in the Electoral College due to divided Republican opposition 231 1998 nbsp nbsp New Hampshire Senate District 16 0 0318 5 7 867 Patricia Krueger R defeated Stephen DeStefano D by 16 votes Following a recount that was narrowed to 7 DeStefano appealed the recount but the count was only changed by 2 votes 232 1945 nbsp United Kingdom general Manchester Rusholme 0 0324 10 15 408 Labour Party candidate unofficial Hugh Lester Hutchinson defeated Conservative Party incumbent Frederick William Cundiff 15 408 15 398 233 1976 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Democratic Primary Massachusetts s 1st District 0 0330 13 19 694 Edward McColgan beat Edward O Brien and then lost the general election 234 1917 nbsp Australian House of Representatives Macquarie 0 0331 9 13 566 Samuel Nicholls defeated the sitting member Ernest Carr by nine votes 77 1935 nbsp Canadian federal Souris 0 0333 3 4 504 Liberal Progressive George William McDonald defeated Progressive Conservative incumbent Errick French Willis 227 2011 nbsp New Zealand general Waitakere 0 0334 9 13 465 National incumbent Paula Bennett retained her seat over Labour challenger Carmel Sepuloni after a judicial recount was requested by Bennett The original official result had Sepuloni winning with a margin of 11 votes 235 236 1929 nbsp United Kingdom general Birmingham Ladywood 0 0335 11 16 447 Labour Party candidate Wilfred Whiteley defeated Conservative Party candidate Geoffrey Lloyd 16 447 16 436 237 2011 nbsp nbsp Scottish Parliament Glasgow Anniesland 0 0339 7 10 329 Incumbent Labour MSP Bill Butler was defeated by Bill Kidd of the Scottish National Party SNP 238 1964 nbsp United Kingdom general Preston North 0 0340 14 20 566 Conservative Party incumbent Julian Amery defeated Labour Party challenger Russell Kerr 20 566 20 552 202 2016 nbsp Jamaican general Saint Mary South Eastern 0 0341 5 7 324 People s National Party incumbent Winston Green defeated Jamaica Labour Party challenger Norman Alexander Dunn 7 324 7 319 239 2006 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Connecticut s 2nd District 0 0342 83 121 248 Democratic challenger Joe Courtney was up 167 votes on Republican incumbent Rob Simmons after the initial vote 240 On the recount Courtney remained the victor by 83 votes 121 248 121 165 241 1955 nbsp nbsp Virginia House of Delegates District 55 0 0346 2 2 891 John A Mackenzie D defeated William J Moody D 242 2020 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives New York s 22nd District 0 0349 109 156 098 Republican Claudia Tenney after a lengthy set of recounts and court cases defeated Anthony Brindisi by 109 votes in a race that wasn t decided until early February When the polls initially closed Tenney held a large 28 422 vote lead based on the in person vote But as mail in ballots poured in her lead dwindled to 12 votes As the courts reviewed ballots the lead grew and shrank until a judge ruled the race over and that Tenney should be certified With appeals still pending Brindisi conceded and dropped all legal challenges on February 8 2021 243 2015 nbsp nbsp Cordoba Legislature Pocho Department 0 03546 1 1 106 Hugo Cuello Union for Cordoba won the seat for the Pocho Department by 1 106 votes against Raul Recalde Together for Cordoba 1 105 votes 1978 nbsp nbsp New Hampshire Senate Republican Primary District 14 0 03560 3 4 215 Incumbent Thomas J Claveau D defeated Phyllis Keeney R 244 1922 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Illinois 6th District 0 03564 42 58 928 Democrat James R Buckley defeated incumbent Republican John J Gorman by 42 votes Gorman contested the election on the basis that there were many errors mistakes and irregularities and a recount would show he had won However Gorman failed to submit his evidence within the 30 days required and therefore had no standing In a rematch in 1924 Gorman regained his seat 245 1964 nbsp nbsp United States Senate Nevada 0 03565 48 67 336 Democratic incumbent Howard Cannon defeated Republican Paul Laxalt 246 2013 nbsp Philippine House of Representatives Northern Samar s 1st District 0 03569 52 72 857 Nacionalista Harlin Abayon defeated Liberal incumbent Raul Daza Daza won on a recount by the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal and replaced Abayon but Abayon won an appeal in the Supreme Court Abayon was still not seated in the last day of the 16th Congress 247 1945 nbsp Canadian federal Colchester Hants 0 0357 8 11 141 Progressive Conservative Frank Stanfield defeated Liberal incumbent Gordon Timlin Purdy 248 1982 nbsp nbsp Maine House of Representatives District 69 0 03606 1 1 387 Unofficial counts said it was tied but all subsequent counts were 1 387 1 386 1 Winner was Walter R Sherburne 1916 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives North Carolina s 10th District 0 03611 13 18 008 When ballots were originally canvassed James J Britt held a scant 13 vote lead over challenger Zebulon Weaver However Buncombe County decided to accept 90 unmarked ballots ballots that were printed as either Republican or Democratic ballots and those ballots gave Weaver an 8 vote lead Weaver was certified and provisionally seated while Britt contested the election The House found in his favor but by the time he was sworn in there was only 4 days remaining in his term 249 1990 nbsp nbsp Ohio general Ohio Attorney General 0 03672 1 234 1 680 698 Democratic candidate Lee Fisher defeated Republican Paul Pfeifer after a six week recount earning him the ironic nickname Landslide Lee 250 2000 nbsp Canadian federal Champlain 0 03674 15 20 423 Bloc Quebecois candidate Marcel Gagnon narrowly edged out Liberal Julie Boulet 251 1859 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Tennessee s 9th District 0 0371 7 9 437 Emerson Etheridge defeated Democrat John DeWitt Clinton Atkins 9 437 9 430 252 253 1922 nbsp United Kingdom general Manchester Clayton 0 0372 11 14 800 Conservative Party candidate William Henry Flanagan defeated Labour Party candidate John Edward Sutton 14 800 14 789 254 Sutton had beaten Flanagan in the by election earlier that year 2018 nbsp nbsp Victoria Legislative Assembly Electoral district of Ripon 0 03745 15 20 035 Incumbent Louise Staley of the Liberal Party defeated Sarah de Santis of the Labor Party 255 2018 nbsp nbsp Alaska House of Representatives District 1 0 03755 1 2 663 Republican nominee Bart LeBon defeated Democrat Kathryn Dodge 2 663 2 662 following a recount and a state supreme court challenge 256 257 Dodge challenged the findings of the Division of Elections on three ballots two that were counted and one that was not but the Supreme Court upheld the count and Dodge conceded The race decided control of the Alaska House of Representatives technically giving Republicans a majority but due to defections created a 20 20 tie instead of Democratic control 258 After weeks of deadlock Bryce Edgmon who originally won his seat with a coin toss switched his party affiliation from Democratic to Independent and was re elected Speaker and several committees were set up with bipartisan leadership 1951 nbsp United Kingdom general Belfast West 0 03769 25 33 174 Irish Labour candidate Jack Beattie defeated UUP incumbent Thomas Teevan 33 174 33 149 259 1968 nbsp Canadian federal Comox Alberni 0 03771 9 11 939 Liberal Richard Durante defeated New Democratic incumbent Thomas Speakman Barnett 156 The result was later declared void and Durante lost the by election to Barnett in 1969 1935 nbsp United Kingdom general Kingswinford 0 0382 16 20 925 Labour Party challenger Arthur Henderson defeated Conservative Party incumbent Alan Livesey Stuart Todd 20 925 20 909 260 1896 nbsp Canadian federal York East 0 03841 1 3 907 Independent Conservative incumbent William F McLean defeated Liberal Henry R Frankland 48 F2008 nbsp Canadian federal Kitchener Waterloo 0 0390 17 21 830 Conservative Peter Braid defeated Liberal Andrew Telegdi after a recount 261 1828 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives New York s 20th District 0 03917 7 8 939 In 1828 the 20th district had two representatives and all candidates ran in one race Jacksonian Silas Wright Jr finished in 3rd place 7 votes behind Adams supporter George Fisher Wright contested the outcome and a House investigation found that 130 votes for Wright had not been returned for him because of mistakes by election officials The House removed Fisher who did not object to the outcome and resigned and gave the seat to Wright Wright in the meantime had been elected state comptroller and so he refused to qualify for the seat which was later filled by a special election 262 263 1992 nbsp United Kingdom general Vale of Glamorgan 0 03923 19 24 220 Conservative Party challenger Walter Sweeney defeated Labour Party incumbent John William Patrick Smith 24 220 24 201 Smith would beat Sweeney in 1997 264 2008 nbsp nbsp Alaska House of Representatives District 7 0 0398 4 5 024 Incumbent Republican Mike Kelly defeated Democratic challenger Karl Kassel 5 024 5 020 following a recount 265 266 267 1990 nbsp nbsp Illinois House of Representatives 55th district 0 0406 6 7 392 Initially Rosemary Mulligan and Penny Pullen were certified as having 7 431 7 400 votes and Mulligan was declared the winner The trial court ordered a recount that then had them tied at 7 387 7 387 The Illinois Compiled Statutes required that ties be resolved by lot 268 Mulligan won the coin flip and was declared the winner by the trial court Pullen then appealed and the Illinois Supreme Court decided that the correct vote count was 7 392 7 386 with Pullen declared the winner Two years later Mulligan took another swing at the seat and defeated Pullen in a race so close it also required a recount 269 1991 nbsp nbsp Virginia House of Delegates District 58 0 0408 7 8 561 C Timothy Lindstrom D was originally declared the winner but later it was discovered that election officials in Greene County misread a 9 as a 0 and Peter Way R went on to win the election 270 271 2013 nbsp nbsp Virginia General Virginia Attorney General 0 0411 907 1 105 045 Democratic candidate Mark Herring defeated Republican candidate Mark Obenshain The initial count was 1 103 777 1 103 612 a 165 or 0 01 margin The recount was 1 105 045 1 104 138 a 907 or 0 04 margin 1994 nbsp nbsp Massachusetts Governor s Council Democratic Primary 4th District 0 0420 26 30 989 Christopher A Iannella Jr defeated John J Kerrigan Iannella won the general unopposed 272 1870 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives South Carolina s At large District unrecognized 0 0425 61 71 803 South Carolina was readmitted to Congress in 1868 after passage of the 14th Amendment That amendment ended the three fifths rule effectively raising the population of states that once had slavery As a result South Carolina and other slave states tried to seat extra members of Congress South Carolina choose two additional congress members during at large election In one of those Johann Peter Martin Epping defeated Lucius W Wimbush by 61 votes 71 803 71 742 But the House refused to seat him and the other at large winner A number of southern states upon readmission claimed that since their slaves were emancipated they were entitled to larger delegations in the House Epping s election falls in this category The claims were rejected by the House 273 274 275 276 1995 nbsp nbsp Queensland Legislative Assembly Mundingburra 0 04301 16 18 600 General election saw return of Australian Labor Party MP Ken Davies over his Liberal Party rival Frank Tanti after distribution of preferences of minor candidates by just 16 votes However due to the non arrival of some overseas military ballots a Court of Disputed Returns required a fresh election at which Tanti won As this seat was the difference between a Labor Party majority and a Liberal Party supported by an Independent MP the overturning of the result was a rare example of the fate of an entire government resting on a challenge to an ultra close constituency 2014 nbsp nbsp Parliament of South Australia Fisher state by election 0 04371 9 10 299 By election caused by the death of sitting independent MP Bob Such The Australian Labor Party candidate Nat Cook beat the Liberal Party candidate Heidi Harris by 9 votes 277 1974 nbsp Canadian federal Drummond 0 0447 13 14 561 Liberal Yvon Pinard defeated Social Credit incumbent Jean Marie Boisvert 278 1979 nbsp Canadian federal Halifax 0 0453 15 16 570 Progressive Conservative George Cooper defeated Liberal Brian Flemming 279 2006 nbsp nbsp Vermont Auditor of Accounts Vermont Auditor of Accounts 0 0456 102 111 770 The initial count gave the victory to Randy Brock R by 137 votes but after a recount Thomas M Salmon D was declared the winner by just 102 votes The final tally gave Salmon 111 770 votes and Republican Brock 111 668 280 1922 nbsp United Kingdom general Portsmouth Central 0 0457 7 7 666 In this four way race Conservative Party candidate Frank Privett defeated National Liberal candidate T Fisher 7 666 7 659 281 2005 nbsp British Columbia general Vancouver Burrard 0 0458 11 12 009 282 On election night Tim Stevenson of the British Columbia New Democratic Party had the lead over Lorne Mayencourt of the British Columbia Liberal Party but Mayencourt had a 17 vote lead after a recount When the absentee ballots were counted later Maynecourt widened his lead by 1 vote 283 Following an additional recount ordered by the courts Maynecourt retained an 11 vote lead and was declared the winner 284 Stevenson sued arguing that 71 absentee ballots had improperly certified and thus uncounted and that a new election was needed but then dropped the suit to run for a seat on the city council 285 1960 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Indiana s 5th District 0 0461 99 107 357 In the official count after election day Republican George O Chambers defeated Democrat J Edward Roush by 3 votes and by 12 votes after the canvas He was certified as the winner but Roush contested the outcome and the Democratically controlled House first decided that neither should be seated After a review of the ballots the House Committee determined that Roush had won the seat by 99 votes and on June 14 1961 passed a resolution to seat him 184 1993 nbsp Canadian federal Edmonton Northwest 0 0476 12 12 599 Liberal candidate Anne McLellan narrowly edged out Reform candidate Richard Kayler 286 1853 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Georgia s 3rd District 0 0478 5 5 232 Democrat David J Bailey defeated Whig Robert P Trippe 5232 5227 287 1972 nbsp nbsp Connecticut House of Representatives 65th district Democratic primary Connecticut 0 0481 1 2 079 288 Representatives Addo Bonetti and John J Miscikowski were both moved into the 65th district after legislative redistricting in 1972 289 Bonetti was initially defeated in the primary by Miscikowski by one vote and a recount maintained Miscikowski s one vote victory 288 290 However Judge George Saden invalidated the primary and ordered a new one due to a Republican having mistakenly voted in the primary 291 Bonetti defeated Miscikowski in the second primary and won in the general election against Republican nominee Edwin R Chadwick 292 293 2017 nbsp United Kingdom general Perth and North Perthshire 0 0482 21 21 804 The incumbent Scottish National Party narrowly defeated Conservative candidate Ian Duncan 294 1945 nbsp United Kingdom general Cheshire Northwich 0 0486 15 15 477 In this three way race Conservative Party candidate John Foster defeated Labour Party candidate Prof Robert Chorley 15 477 15 473 146 1968 nbsp Canadian federal Oshawa Whitby 0 0493 15 15 224 New Democrat Ed Broadbent defeated Progressive Conservative incumbent Michael Starr 156 2014 nbsp Ukrainian parliamentary 79th constituency Vasylivka 0 0495 17 17 197 An independent representative of Zaporizhia Iron Ore Works Oleksandr Hryhorchuk initially defeated the pro Party of Regions incumbent Volodymyr Bandurov by 138 votes Bandurov contested the result and obtained a recount and won with a margin of 17 votes following the recount Hryhorchuk contested the recount as irregular 295 2016 nbsp nbsp Vermont House of Representatives Windsor Orange 1 District 0 0498 1 1 004 This was the fourth matchup between incumbent Democrat Sarah Buxton and Republican David Ainsworth their first matchup had also been decided by one vote The initial tally had Buxton leading by 3 votes 1 003 1 000 The first recount had them both tied at 1 000 The second recount then had Ainsworth win by one vote 1 004 1 003 Buxton did not make any further appeals and this was the final result 296 297 1940 nbsp nbsp Kansas gubernatorial Governor of Kansas 0 0505 430 425 928 Burke came within 430 votes of beating Gov Ratner for reelection 298 299 1854 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Pennsylvania s 5th District 0 0510 8 7 842 Democrat John Cadwalader defeated anti Nebraska Whig Jones 7 842 7 834 2009 nbsp nbsp Party Leader second ballot Action democratique du Quebec 0 0511 2 1 957 After longtime leader Mario Dumont stepped down from the leadership of the party an election was held In a very close race Gilles Taillon defeated his opponent Eric Caire by just 2 votes 300 1833 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Indiana s 2nd District 0 0520 2 1 921 In this 6 way race Whig John Ewing defeated Democrat John W Davis by 2 votes 1921 1919 301 302 2020 nbsp nbsp Pennsylvania Senate District 45 0 0521 69 66 261 When this race was certified in early December after numerous court battles Democrat Jim Brewster had 69 votes more than Republican Nicole Ziccarelli However a dispute over 311 absentee and mail in ballots that were signed but not dated lingered in the courts into January Though Brewster was certified Republicans in the state Senate blocked Brewster from taking his oath of office and removed the Democratic lieutenant governor from his role overseeing the proceedings 303 A week later after Ziccarelli lost her appeal she conceded and Brewster was sworn in 304 1870 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Pennsylvania s 17th District 0 05324 11 10 335 Democratic challenger Milton Speer defeated Republican incumbent Daniel J Morrell by 11 votes 10335 10324 305 306 307 Morrell declined to contest the results blaming the loss on the base treachery and debauchery of professed Republicans 1887 nbsp Canadian federal Montmorency 0 05328 1 939 Liberal Charles Langelier defeated Conservative P V Valin 47 2016 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Republican Primary Arizona s 5th District 0 0535 27 85 595 On the night of the Republican Primary for the seat being vacated by Congressman Matt Salmon State Senator Andy Biggs lead by a total of 16 votes against Republican challenger Christine Jones After a recount that lead widened to 27 votes and Jones conceded the election 308 2000 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Minnesota s 2ndd District 0 0537 155 288 900 Republican Mark Kennedy won against DFL incumbent David Minge 138 957 138 802 309 1945 nbsp United Kingdom general Caithness and Sutherland 0 0539 6 5 564 In this very close three way race where each candidate received 33 of the vote Unionist Party candidate Eric Gandar Dower defeated Labour Party candidate Robert Ian Aonas MacInnes 5 564 5 558 The incumbent Liberal Party leader Archibald Sinclair had 5 503 votes 1974 nbsp United Kingdom general Peterborough 0 05407 22 20 353 Conservative Party incumbent Sir Harmar Nicholls defeated Labour Party challenger Michael Ward 20 353 20 331 Ward had also lost to Nicholls in 1966 and 1970 but would win in Oct 1974 1983 nbsp United Kingdom general Hyndburn 0 05414 21 19 405 Conservative Party candidate Ken Hargreaves defeated Labour Party candidate Arthur Davidson 19 405 19 384 This seat was created in 1983 310 1838 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives New Jersey s at large District 0 05455 31 28 426 For much of its early history New Jersey chose all of its Congressional delegation in an at large election with each voter getting to vote for however many candidates that there were seats and usually each party s slate of candidates would thus have similar numbers of votes In 1838 New Jersey had six seats and so each voter could vote for six candidates The voting for the parties was very close and at first it appeared that all 6 Whig candidates had been re elected and their election was certified by the Whig governor who applied the states broad seal to them The Democrats contested the election on the grounds that the votes of two townships were excluded and that if included would ve swung the election and this became known as the Broad Seal War The House which held a 2 seat majority without the NJ delegation decided to seat one of the Whigs but leave the other 5 seats vacant After the contest was investigated and the excluded votes counted 5 of the 6 Democrats were declared winners They were seated in July 1840 In the end only 197 votes separated the Democrat s best finisher from the Whig s worst Charles C Stratton came in 7th only 31 votes behind Democrat Joseph Kille a difference of only 0 05455 John P B Maxwell missed out by 40 votes or 0 0703 The 6 Democrats averaged 28 429 votes and the Whigs 28 360 for an average advantage of only 69 votes or 0 12 311 312 2014 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives Tennessee s 4th District 0 05464 38 69 548 Scandal plagued Republican candidate Scott DesJarlais defeated candidate Jim Tracy 313 1986 nbsp nbsp United States House of Representatives North Carolina s 6th District 0 05465 79 144 579 Republican candidate Howard Coble defeated Democratic candidate Robin Britt 1964 nbsp United Kingdom general Ealing North 0 0561 27 20 809 Labour Party challenger William Molloy defeated Conservative Party incumbent John Barter 20 809 20 782 314 2010 nbsp nbsp Vermont House of Representatives Windsor Orange 1 District 0 0567 1 882 On the initial tally challenger Democrat Sarah Buxton and incumbent Republican David Ainsworth had 882 881 votes On a recount they were tied with one mailed in military vote for Buxton rejected Buxton appealed and the Superior Court ruled that vote valid so that Buxton still won by one vote 881 880 Ainsworth then appealed but the House voted along party lines to uphold Buxton s one vote victory 122 315 316 Remarkably their fourth matchup in 2016 would again be decided by one vote but with the result reversed 2012 nbsp nbsp United States presidential Iowa Republican caucuses 0 0570 34 29 839 Former U S Senator Rick Santorum defeated former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in the statewide Republican caucuses the closest GOP primary election in United States history 317 Romney had been declared the winner by 8 votes on caucus night 1930 nbsp nbsp Kansas gubernatorial Governor of Kansas 0 0576 251 217 171 Harry H Woodring won a three way race between himself 217 171 votes Frank Haucke 216 920 and John R Hinckley 183 278 318 1903 nbsp Australian House of Representatives Riverina 0 0576 5 4 341 Robert Blackwood defeated the sitting member John Chanter by five votes The result was overturned and Chanter won a by election by 363 votes 77 2014 nbsp Ukrainian parliamentary 22nd constituency Lutsk 0 0578 28 24 245 Ihor Lapin People s Front defeated Iryna Konstankevych an ally of the incumbent Ihor Palytsia who was a candidate on the Petro Poroshenko Bloc party list instead 24 245 24 217 319 1959 nbsp United Kingdom general Birmingham All Saints 0 05806 20 17 235 Conservative Party challenger John Harold Hollingworth defeated Labour Party incumbent Denis Herbert Howell 17 235 17 215 320 2011 a, wikipedia, wiki, book, 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