List of close election results
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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 percentage points): single-winner elections where the winning candidate was less than 0 % ahead of the second-placed candidate, as well as party-list elections where a party was less than 0 % short of the electoral threshold or two lists that obtained seats are less than 0 % 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 . [House of Representatives] elections, and one of every 15,000 votes cast in state [legislative] elections, 'mattered' in the sense that they were cast for a candidate that officially tied or won by one vote." 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. There are a variety of ways in which tied elections are settled. Some are decided by drawing lots or other games of chance. 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. 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.
Tables
· Table of close national and state elections › Tied elections
1985
1985
Year
1985
Country /
region
Election
Victorian Legislative Council
District/race
Nunawading
Total votes
cast for winner
54,821
Description
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 voided by a Court of Disputed Returns on the grounds that 44 votes had been incorrectly excluded from
2011
2011
Year
2011
Country /
region
Election
Swiss federal
District/race
Ticino
Total votes
cast for winner
23,979
Description
Marco Romano and Monica Duca Widmer both had 23,979 votes. 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 a new manual lottery. This was conducted on November
1994
1994
Year
1994
Country /
region
Election
National Assembly of Quebec
District/race
Saint-Jean
Total votes
cast for winner
16,536
Description
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.
2003
2003
Year
2003
Country /
region
Election
National Assembly of Quebec
District/race
Champlain
Total votes
cast for winner
11,852
Description
PQ candidate Noëlla Champagne tied with Liberal Pierre Brouillette. Consequently, a new vote was held 36 days later, which Champagne won by 642 votes.
1988
1988
Year
1988
Country /
region
Election
Massachusetts Senate Democratic primary
District/race
Plymouth District
Total votes
cast for winner
4,543
Description
George F. Buckley and Michael Creedon tied, but Creedon secured the nomination and later the seat.
1978
1978
Year
1978
Country /
region
Election
Rhode Island Senate
District/race
Senatorial District 29
Total votes
cast for winner
4,110
Description
Both Russell and Flynn had exactly 4,110 votes in the general election. On January 9, 1979, a special election was held where Flynn beat Russell 2,546–2,038.
1980
1980
Year
1980
Country /
region
Election
New Hampshire Senate Republican primary
District/race
District 16
Total votes
cast for winner
2,438
Description
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. Podles wo
1958
1958
Year
1958
Country /
region
Election
Alaska Senate
District/race
District B
Total votes
cast for winner
1,953
Description
Republican candidate Boardman and Democrat "Bo" Smith both received 1,953 votes in Senate District B in Southeastern Alaska around Ketchikan. The Democratic-controlled Alaska Senate resolved the tie in favor of Smith.
2015
2015
Year
2015
Country /
region
Election
Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island
District/race
Vernon River-Stratford
Total votes
cast for winner
1,173
Description
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
| 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 voided by a Court of Disputed Returns on the grounds that 44 votes had been incorrectly excluded from |
| 2011 | | Swiss federal | Ticino | 23,979 | Marco Romano and Monica Duca Widmer both had 23,979 votes. 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 a new manual lottery. This was conducted on November |
| 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. |
| 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". Th |
| 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. |
| 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. Following a recount, Yancey trailed Democratic challenger Shelly Simonds by one vote out of 23,215 cast. After review by a three-judge panel appointed by the Virginia Supreme Court, a d |
| 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. Six months later, a special election was held where Durant beat Alicea by 56 votes. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 %), 3889 (22 %), 4191 (24 %), and 4687 (27 %) votes (16,962 total votes). McIntyre was initially declared to have been elected by a four-vote margin. Wick petitio |
| 2008 | | West Virginia House of Delegates | District 10 | 3,304 | Four candidates were vying for three spots in the Democratic nomination primary. In initial returns, Iris McCrady appeared to place third, beating out Tim Fittro for the third nomination by three votes. However, after the canvass, McCrady and Fittro were shown to be tied with both receiving 3,304 votes, with Daniel Poling placing second and Brenda |
| 1999 | | Nova Scotia House of Assembly | Shelburne | 3,206 | Progressive Conservative Cecil O'Donnell tied with Liberal Clifford Huskilson (3,206–3,206). The returning officer broke the tie by pulling Mr. O'Donnell's name from a box. |
| 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) Alexander Butler Rowley were tied, 3,049–3,049. The Returning Officer (and also mayor) James Walker broke the tie by casting a vote for Addison. |
| 1978 | | Rhode Island Senate | Senatorial District 29 | 4,110 | Both Russell and Flynn had exactly 4,110 votes in the general election. On January 9, 1979, a special election was held where Flynn beat Russell 2,546–2,038. |
| 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. Podles wo |
| 1958 | | Alaska Senate | District B | 1,953 | Republican candidate Boardman and Democrat "Bo" Smith both received 1,953 votes in Senate District B in Southeastern Alaska around Ketchikan. The Democratic-controlled Alaska Senate resolved the tie in favor of Smith. |
| 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. |
| 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. R |
| 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. Bryce Edgmon, the winner of the coin toss, went on to be Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives. |
| 2004 | | Montana House of Representatives | District 12 | 1,559 | The November 2, 2004 election resulted in the district 12 race being a 1,559–1,559 vote tie between Democratic candidate Jeanne Windham and Constitution candidate Rick Jore. On December 28, the Montana Supreme Court invalidated a small handful of ballots, which was enough to resolve the tie and give control of the state house to the Democratic Part |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
· Table of close national and state elections › List of close election results in single-winner, majoritarian and STV races
(%)
(%)
Year
(%)
Country
region
(votes)
2008
2008
Year
2008
Country
region
Election
Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
District/race
Nathdwara
Margin
0 %
Margin
1
Total votes
cast for winner
62,216
Description
In the 2008 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election, the result for the Nathdwara Assembly constituency became one of India's most significant electoral anomalies. Kalyan Singh Chauhan of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) defeated incubment four term representative C . Joshi of the Indian National Congress (INC) by a margin of exactly one vote as c
1974
1974
Year
1974
Country
region
Election
United States Senate
District/race
New Hampshire
Margin
0 %
Margin
2
Total votes
cast for winner
110,926
Description
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 Norris Cotton's term, but began to delibe
1839
1839
Year
1839
Country
region
Election
Massachusetts gubernatorial
District/race
Governor of Massachusetts
Margin
0 %
Margin
1
Total votes
cast for winner
51,034
Description
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 leadin
2025
2025
Year
2025
Country
region
Election
Canadian federal
District/race
Terrebonne
Margin
0 %
Margin
1
Total votes
cast for winner
23,352
Description
Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste defeated Bloc Québécois incumbent Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné by one vote after a judicial recount.
2013
2013
Year
2013
Country
region
Election
Australian Senate
District/race
Western Australia
Margin
0 %
Margin
1
Total votes
cast for winner
23,532
Description
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 La
2023
2023
Year
2023
Country
region
Election
Caddo Parish sheriff
District/race
Sheriff of Caddo Parish
Margin
0 %
Margin
1
Total votes
cast for winner
21,624
Description
In the runoff election, Henry Whitehorn, a Democrat, defeated Republican John Nickelson by one vote. After a court challenge, the election was rerun; Whitehorn won again with a larger margin.
2025
2025
Year
2025
Country
region
Election
German federal
District/race
Stuttgart I
Margin
0 %
Margin
5
Total votes
cast for winner
45,668
Description
Grüne's Simone Fischer defeated CDU's Elisabeth Schick-Ebert by 5 votes. The original count saw Fischer win with 16 votes.
1988
1988
Year
1988
Country
region
Election
Massachusetts Governor's Council Democratic primary
District/race
3rd District
Margin
0 %
Margin
1
Total votes
cast for winner
14,716
Description
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 was not able to vote. Kennedy won the following general.
2003
2003
Year
2003
Country
region
Election
Russian legislative
District/race
Sverdlovsk Oblast District 163
Margin
0 %
Margin
5
Total votes
cast for winner
73,083
Description
Incumbent Georgy Leontyev held the seat by five votes, despite allegations of vote manipulation, later rejected by the Supreme Court.
1997
1997
Year
1997
Country
region
Election
United Kingdom general
District/race
Winchester
Margin
0 %
Margin
2
Total votes
cast for winner
26,100
Description
In the General Election, Mark Oaten led Gerry Malone by 2 votes (26,100–26,098). 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 Pe
1992
1992
Year
1992
Country
region
Election
Philippine Senate
District/race
At-large
Margin
0 %
Margin
966
Total votes
cast for winner
3,964,966
Description
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.
2004
2004
Year
2004
Country
region
Election
Washington gubernatorial
District/race
Governor of Washington
Margin
0 %
Margin
133
Total votes
cast for winner
1,373,361
Description
Democrat Christine Gregoire defeated Republican Dino Rossi, following two recounts, after the initial count and first recount showed Rossi as the winner.
2024
2024
Year
2024
Country
region
Election
Indian general
District/race
Mumbai North West
Margin
0 %
Margin
48
Total votes
cast for winner
452,644
Description
Ravindra Waikar (Shiv Sena) won with a 48-vote-lead against Amol Gajanan Kirtikar (Shiv Sena (UBT)).
2024
2024
Year
2024
Country
region
Election
Budapest local
District/race
Mayor of Budapest
Margin
0 %
Margin
41
Total votes
cast for winner
371,578
Description
The candidate of the centre-left opposition candidate Gergely Karácsony defeated LMP candidate Dávid Vitézy who was backed by the Fidesz–KDNP alliance by 324 votes (0 %). Vitézy demanded a recount, asserting that a large portion of the ballots had been wrongfully deemed invalid. After recounting these ballots, the Hungarian National Election Of
1931
1931
Year
1931
Country
region
Election
United Kingdom general
District/race
Ilkeston
Margin
0 %
Margin
2
Total votes
cast for winner
17,587
Description
A . 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 declare
2002
2002
Year
2002
Country
region
Election
Irish general
District/race
Limerick West
Margin
0 %
Margin
1
Total votes
cast for winner
8,564
Description
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 whe
2022
2022
Year
2022
Country
region
Election
Alabama State Senate Republican primary
District/race
District 27
Margin
0 %
Margin
1
Total votes
cast for winner
8,373
Description
Jay Hovey defeated incumbent Tom Whatley.
2000
2000
Year
2000
Country
region
Election
South Korean legislature
District/race
Gwangju
Margin
0 %
Margin
3
Total votes
cast for winner
16,675
Description
GNP Park Hyuk-kyu defeated MDP Moon Hak-jin by an official tally of a three-vote difference.
1966
1966
Year
1966
Country
region
Election
United Kingdom general
District/race
Peterborough
Margin
0 %
Margin
3
Total votes
cast for winner
23,944
Description
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.
2017
2017
Year
2017
Country
region
Election
United Kingdom general
District/race
North East Fife
Margin
0 %
Margin
2
Total votes
cast for winner
13,743
Description
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.
1962
1962
Year
1962
Country
region
Election
Minnesota gubernatorial
District/race
Governor of Minnesota
Margin
0 %
Margin
91
Total votes
cast for winner
619,842
Description
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. After the recount, it was determined that Rolvaag of the DFL had defeated Andersen, Republican, by 91 votes out of over 1 million cast. Rolvaag collected 619,842 votes to A
2020
2020
Year
2020
Country
region
Election
North Carolina Judicial
District/race
Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
Margin
0 %
Margin
401
Total votes
cast for winner
2,695,951
Description
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.
2022
2022
Year
2022
Country
region
Election
New York State Senate
District/race
District 50
Margin
0 %
Margin
10
Total votes
cast for winner
61,579
Description
Incumbent Democrat John Mannion defeated Republican Rebecca Shiroff.
2014
2014
Year
2014
Country
region
Election
North Carolina District Court
District/race
District 5
Margin
0 %
Margin
5
Total votes
cast for winner
30,746
Description
Lindsey McKee Luther defeated Kent Harrell for North Carolina District Court, District 5 by five votes: 30,746–30,741.
1974
1974
Year
1974
Country
region
Election
United Kingdom general
District/race
Carmarthen
Margin
0 %
Margin
3
Total votes
cast for winner
17,165
Description
Labour Party incumbent Gwynoro Jones defeated Plaid Cymru candidate Gwynfor Evans 17,165–17,162. Jones had also beaten Evans in 1970, but would lose to Evans in Oct 1974.
1912
1912
Year
1912
Country
region
Election
Kansas gubernatorial
District/race
Governor of Kansas
Margin
0 %
Margin
29
Total votes
cast for winner
167,437
Description
George H. Hodges defeated the popular Republican Arthur Capper by a razor-thin margin of 29 votes out of 359,684 cast.
1948
1948
Year
1948
Country
region
Election
United States Senate Democratic primary runoff
District/race
Texas
Margin
0 %
Margin
87
Total votes
cast for winner
494,191
Description
Lyndon B. Johnson was 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
1996
Year
1996
Country
region
Election
Vermont Senate
District/race
Rutland County
Margin
0 %
Margin
2
Total votes
cast for winner
10,978
Description
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 f
2000
2000
Year
2000
Country
region
Election
United States presidential
District/race
Florida
Margin
0 %
Margin
537
Total votes
cast for winner
2,912,790
Description
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. After military and overseas ballots were added in, his lead increased to 930. An additional hand recount was halted by the United States Supreme Court which resulted in the certified margin. Fl
1982
1982
Year
1982
Country
region
Election
New Hampshire Senate
District/race
District 8
Margin
0 %
Margin
1
Total votes
cast for winner
5,352
Description
Incumbent Republican George Wiggins defeated Democrat Fred Belair by 1 vote.
2010
2010
Year
2010
Country
region
Election
United Kingdom general
District/race
Fermanagh and South Tyrone
Margin
0 %
Margin
4
Total votes
cast for winner
21,304
Description
Michelle Gildernew (Sinn Féin) defeated Independent Unionist Rodney Connor by 4 votes. Connor had the support of the Democratic Unionist Party and the Ulster Unionist Party, the two main unionist parties in Northern Ireland. Connor lodged an election petition against Gildernew alleging irregularities in the counting of the votes, but the High Cour
2022
2022
Year
2022
Country
region
Election
California State Senate
District/race
District 16
Margin
0 %
Margin
13
Total votes
cast for winner
68,461
Description
Democratic incumbent Melissa Hurtado defeated Republican David Shepard by 13 votes.
1832
1832
Year
1832
Country
region
Election
United States presidential
District/race
Maryland
Margin
0 %
Margin
4
Total votes
cast for winner
19,160
Description
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 would not have changed the electoral college vote.
1910
1910
Year
1910
Country
region
Election
United Kingdom general
District/race
Exeter
Margin
0 %
Margin
1
Total votes
cast for winner
4,777
Description
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
2022
2022
Year
2022
Country
region
Election
Arizona general
District/race
Arizona Attorney General
Margin
0 %
Margin
280
Total votes
cast for winner
1,254,809
Description
Democrat Kris Mayes originally defeated Republican Abraham Hamadeh by 511 votes, but after a recount, her lead narrowed to 280 votes.
2001
2001
Year
2001
Country
region
Election
Cape Verdean presidential
District/race
President of Cape Verde
Margin
0 %
Margin
17
Total votes
cast for winner
75,828
Description
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.
1924
1924
Year
1924
Country
region
Election
United Kingdom general
District/race
Leeds, West
Margin
0 %
Margin
3
Total votes
cast for winner
13,057
Description
Labour Party candidate Thomas Stamford defeated Conservative Party candidate A . Renton 13,057–13,054. This was the lowest margin of victory in a Leeds parliamentary election.
1923
1923
Year
1923
Country
region
Election
United Kingdom general
District/race
Devon, Tiverton
Margin
0 %
Margin
3
Total votes
cast for winner
12,303
Description
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.
1972
1972
Year
1972
Country
region
Election
Canadian federal
District/race
Ontario
Margin
0 %
Margin
4
Total votes
cast for winner
16,328
Description
Liberal incumbent Norman Cafik defeated Progressive Conservative Frank Charles McGee. A PC win in this district would have resulted in a 108–108 tie with the Liberals in the overall seat count.
2006
2006
Year
2006
Country
region
Election
Hungarian general election
District/race
District 8 of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county
Margin
0 %
Margin
3
Total votes
cast for winner
11,871
Description
Socialist candidate Nándor Gúr defeated incumbent, conservative, Fidesz-candidate Oszkár Molnár by 9 votes. At Molnár's request, the Court decided to recount the votes and Gúr finally won by three votes.
2018
2018
Year
2018
Country
region
Election
Italian Chamber of Deputies
District/race
Guidonia Montecelio
Margin
0 %
Margin
19
Total votes
cast for winner
55,360
Description
M5S candidate Sebastiano Cubeddu defeated CDX candidate Barbara Saltamartini.
2008
2008
Year
2008
Country
region
Election
United States Senate
District/race
Minnesota
Margin
0 %
Margin
312
Total votes
cast for winner
1,212,629
Description
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. 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
1929
1929
Year
1929
Country
region
Election
United Kingdom general
District/race
Cheshire, Northwich
Margin
0 %
Margin
4
Total votes
cast for winner
15,477
Description
In this three-way race, Conservative Party incumbent Lord Colum Crichton-Stuart defeated Labour Party candidate Mrs Barbara Ayrton-Gould 15,477–15,473. Crichton-Stuart also defeated Mrs Gould in 1924 and 1931.
2024
2024
Year
2024
Country
region
Election
North Carolina Supreme Court
District/race
Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
Margin
0 %
Margin
734
Total votes
cast for winner
5,540,090
Description
Following a count, recount and hand-to-eye recount in 1% of precincts, Incumbent Justice Allison Riggs defeated Court of Appeals judge Jefferson Griffin. Griffin filed hundreds of legal challenges to the vote, claiming that nearly 60,000 people voted illegally and on January 7, 2025, the Republican-controlled state Supreme Court blocked the certifi
1964
1964
Year
1964
Country
region
Election
Selangor State Legislative Assembly
District/race
Kepong
Margin
0 %
Margin
2
Total votes
cast for winner
7,487
Description
Tan Chee Khoon, president of the Labour Party of Selangor, defeated the incumbent Chan Keong Hon of the Malaysian Chinese Association by two votes. At the time Chan was a member of the state executive council.
2016
2016
Year
2016
Country
region
Election
Vermont Senate Democratic primary
District/race
Washington County District
Margin
0 %
Margin
1
Total votes
cast for winner
3,709
Description
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. The victory hinged on a disputed ballot from Worcester that Tomasi determined contained a vote for Brooks, but not one for Hi
2026
2026
Year
2026
Country
region
Election
Japanese general
District/race
Hokkaido 10th district
Margin
0 %
Margin
21
Total votes
cast for winner
74,908
Description
Centrist Reform Alliance incubment Hiroshi Kamiya defeated Liberal Democratic Party Candinate Koichi Watanabe by 21 votes (0 %)
1930
1930
Year
1930
Country
region
Election
Canadian federal
District/race
Yamaska
Margin
0 %
Margin
1
Total votes
cast for winner
3,505
Description
Liberal incumbent Aimé Boucher defeated Conservative Paul-François Comtois. The riding result was later declared void, and Boucher won the by-election in 1933 by 84 votes (0 %).
1968
1968
Year
1968
Country
region
Election
Canadian federal
District/race
Leeds
Margin
0 %
Margin
4
Total votes
cast for winner
13,536
Description
Progressive Conservative Desmond Code defeated Liberal incumbent John Matheson.
1945
1945
Year
1945
Country
region
Election
United Kingdom general
District/race
Worcester
Margin
0 %
Margin
4
Total votes
cast for winner
13,523
Description
In this three-way race, Conservative Party candidate George Ward defeated Labour Party/Co-operative Party candidate J. Evans 13,523–13,519.
2020
2020
Year
2020
Country
region
Election
Queensland Legislative Assembly
District/race
Bundaberg
Margin
0 %
Margin
9
Total votes
cast for winner
30,287
Description
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.
1946
1946
Year
1946
Country
region
Election
Philippine Senate
District/race
At-large
Margin
0 %
Margin
384
Total votes
cast for winner
557,156
Description
The Philippine Senate is elected via multiple non-transferable vote. The 8th placed candidate, Salipada Pendatun of the Liberal Party, edged out partymate Prospero Sanidad to win out the last Senate seat. Sanidad later won an election protest to enter the Senate.
1949
1949
Year
1949
Country
region
Election
Canadian federal
District/race
Annapolis—Kings
Margin
0 %
Margin
4
Total votes
cast for winner
13,202
Description
Liberal Angus Alexander Elderkin defeated Progressive Conservative incumbent George Nowlan.
2020
2020
Year
2020
Country
region
Election
Florida State Senate
District/race
District 37
Margin
0 %
Margin
32
Total votes
cast for winner
104,630
Description
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 s
| Year | Country region | Election | District/race | Margin | Total votes cast for winner | Description | |
| (%) | (votes) | ||||||
| 2008 | | Rajasthan Legislative Assembly | Nathdwara | 0 % | 1 | 62,216 | In the 2008 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election, the result for the Nathdwara Assembly constituency became one of India's most significant electoral anomalies. Kalyan Singh Chauhan of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) defeated incubment four term representative C . Joshi of the Indian National Congress (INC) by a margin of exactly one vote as c |
| 1974 | | United States Senate | New Hampshire | 0 % | 2 | 110,926 | 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 Norris Cotton's term, but began to delibe |
| 1839 | | Massachusetts gubernatorial | Governor of Massachusetts | 0 % | 1 | 51,034 | 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 leadin |
| 2020 | | United States House of Representatives | Iowa's 2nd District | 0 % | 6 | 196,964 | In the House election, Democrat Rita Hart lost by only six 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 |
| 2025 | | Canadian federal | Terrebonne | 0 % | 1 | 23,352 | Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste defeated Bloc Québécois incumbent Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné by one vote after a judicial recount. |
| 1984 | | United States House of Representatives | Indiana's 8th District | 0 % | 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. 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 rec |
| 2013 | | Australian Senate | Western Australia | 0 % | 1 | 23,532 | 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 La |
| 2023 | | Caddo Parish sheriff | Sheriff of Caddo Parish | 0 % | 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 rerun; Whitehorn won again with a larger margin. |
| 1910 | | United States House of Representatives | New York's 36th District | 0 % | 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. |
| 2025 | | German federal | Stuttgart I | 0 % | 5 | 45,668 | Grüne's Simone Fischer defeated CDU's Elisabeth Schick-Ebert by 5 votes. The original count saw Fischer win with 16 votes. |
| 1988 | | Massachusetts Governor's Council Democratic primary | 3rd District | 0 % | 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 was not able to vote. Kennedy won the following general. |
| 2003 | | Russian legislative | Sverdlovsk Oblast District 163 | 0 % | 5 | 73,083 | Incumbent Georgy Leontyev held the seat by five votes, despite allegations of vote manipulation, later rejected by the Supreme Court. |
| 1919 | | Australian House of Representatives | Ballarat | 0 % | 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. |
| 1997 | | United Kingdom general | Winchester | 0 % | 2 | 26,100 | In the General Election, Mark Oaten led Gerry Malone by 2 votes (26,100–26,098). 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 Pe |
| 1992 | | Philippine Senate | At-large | 0 % | 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. |
| 2022 | | Massachusetts House of Representatives | 2nd Essex | 0 % | 1 | 11,763 | Kristin Kassner (D) defeated incumbent Leonard Mirra (R). |
| 1882 | | United States House of Representatives | Virginia's 1st District | 0 % | 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 |
| 1868 | | United States House of Representatives | North Carolina's 7th District | 0 % | 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. |
| 2004 | | Washington gubernatorial | Governor of Washington | 0 % | 133 | 1,373,361 | Democrat Christine Gregoire defeated Republican Dino Rossi, following two recounts, after the initial count and first recount showed Rossi as the winner. |
| 2024 | | Indian general | Mumbai North West | 0 % | 48 | 452,644 | Ravindra Waikar (Shiv Sena) won with a 48-vote-lead against Amol Gajanan Kirtikar (Shiv Sena (UBT)). |
| 2024 | | Budapest local | Mayor of Budapest | 0 % | 41 | 371,578 | The candidate of the centre-left opposition candidate Gergely Karácsony defeated LMP candidate Dávid Vitézy who was backed by the Fidesz–KDNP alliance by 324 votes (0 %). Vitézy demanded a recount, asserting that a large portion of the ballots had been wrongfully deemed invalid. After recounting these ballots, the Hungarian National Election Of |
| 1931 | | United Kingdom general | Ilkeston | 0 % | 2 | 17,587 | A . 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 declare |
| 2002 | | Irish general | Limerick West | 0 % | 1 | 8,564 | 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 whe |
| 1854 | | United States House of Representatives | Illinois' 7th District | 0 % | 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 |
| 2022 | | Alabama State Senate Republican primary | District 27 | 0 % | 1 | 8,373 | Jay Hovey defeated incumbent Tom Whatley. |
| 2000 | | South Korean legislature | Gwangju | 0 % | 3 | 16,675 | GNP Park Hyuk-kyu defeated MDP Moon Hak-jin by an official tally of a three-vote difference. |
| 1966 | | United Kingdom general | Peterborough | 0 % | 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 % | 1 | 7,455 | Whig George G. Dunn defeated Democrat David M. Dobson 7,455–7,454. |
| 2024 | | Colorado House of Representatives | House District 16 | 0 % | 3 | 41,279 | Republican Rebecca Keltie defeated incumbent Democrat Stephanie Vigil by just 3 votes. The initial count had Keltie win by 6, and a one-point during the recount the two were tied but 3 votes were determined to have been erroneously counted for Vigil and they were removed. The race carried extra importance as the seat cost Democrats their supermajor |
| 2017 | | United Kingdom general | North East Fife | 0 % | 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. |
| 1962 | | Minnesota gubernatorial | Governor of Minnesota | 0 % | 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. After the recount, it was determined that Rolvaag of the DFL had defeated Andersen, Republican, by 91 votes out of over 1 million cast. Rolvaag collected 619,842 votes to A |
| 2020 | | North Carolina Judicial | Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court | 0 % | 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. |
| 1916 | | United States House of Representatives | Iowa's 11th District | 0 % | 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 |
| 1991 | | Virginia House of Delegates | District 53 | 0 % | 1 | 6,493 | After a recount, Jim Scott won by a single vote, earning him the nickname "Landslide Jim". |
| 2018 | | Kentucky House of Representatives | 13th Representative District | 0 % | 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. Following that recount, Glenn emerged as the winner by 3 |
| 2022 | | New York State Senate | District 50 | 0 % | 10 | 61,579 | Incumbent Democrat John Mannion defeated Republican Rebecca Shiroff. |
| 2014 | | North Carolina District Court | District 5 | 0 % | 5 | 30,746 | Lindsey McKee Luther defeated Kent Harrell for North Carolina District Court, District 5 by five votes: 30,746–30,741. |
| 1974 | | United Kingdom general | Carmarthen | 0 % | 3 | 17,165 | Labour Party incumbent Gwynoro Jones defeated Plaid Cymru candidate Gwynfor Evans 17,165–17,162. 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 % | 1 | 5,870 | Ed Mitchell defeated Kevin Entze by one vote: 5,870–5,869. 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. Mitchell went on to narrowly lose the general election. |
| 1912 | | Kansas gubernatorial | Governor of Kansas | 0 % | 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. |
| 1948 | | United States Senate Democratic primary runoff | Texas | 0 % | 87 | 494,191 | Lyndon B. Johnson was 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 % | 2 | 10,978 | 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 f |
| 2000 | | United States presidential | Florida | 0 % | 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. After military and overseas ballots were added in, his lead increased to 930. An additional hand recount was halted by the United States Supreme Court which resulted in the certified margin. Fl |
| 2001 | | Italian Senate | Marino | 0 % | 14 | 62,330 | Olive Tree candidate Severino Lavagnini was elected, but the defeated House of Freedoms candidate won a seat via levelling seats. |
| 1982 | | New Hampshire Senate | District 8 | 0 % | 1 | 5,352 | Incumbent Republican George Wiggins defeated Democrat Fred Belair by 1 vote. |
| 2010 | | United Kingdom general | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | 0 % | 4 | 21,304 | Michelle Gildernew (Sinn Féin) defeated Independent Unionist Rodney Connor by 4 votes. Connor had the support of the Democratic Unionist Party and the Ulster Unionist Party, the two main unionist parties in Northern Ireland. Connor lodged an election petition against Gildernew alleging irregularities in the counting of the votes, but the High Cour |
| 2022 | | Connecticut House of Representatives | District 81 | 0 % | 1 | 10,593 | Democrat Chris Poulos defeated Republican Tony Morrison by 1 vote. |
| 2022 | | California State Senate | District 16 | 0 % | 13 | 68,461 | Democratic incumbent Melissa Hurtado defeated Republican David Shepard by 13 votes. |
· Table of close national and state elections › List of close election results between candidates in the first round of a two-round election
1962
1962
Year
1962
Country /
region
Election
1962 Alabama Senate election
District/race
District 22 special Democratic primary
Margin
(%)
0 %
Margin
(votes)
1
Total votes cast for
higher-placed
candidate
1,047
Description
The first round of the special Democratic primary saw state representative Rush "Doc" Smith beat out Roy H. Coshatt for the second-place spot in the runoff by a single vote. After the results were made official, Coshatt contested the election results, but his case was thrown out by the state Democratic executive committee, allowing Smith to advance
2024
2024
Year
2024
Country /
region
Election
Romanian presidential
District/race
President of Romania
Margin
(%)
0 %
Margin
(votes)
2,742
Total votes cast for
higher-placed
candidate
1,769,761
Description
Prime minister Marcel Ciolacu was narrowly defeated by Elena Lasconi who went on to face the nationalist Călin Georgescu in a run-off. Ciolacu was ahead until 99 % of the votes were counted. This was the first time since 2000 that a nationalist candidate made it into the second round instead of either the National Liberals nor the now defunct Dem
2022
2022
Year
2022
Country /
region
Election
2022 Rio Grande do Sul gubernatorial election
District/race
Governor of Rio Grande do Sul
Margin
(%)
0 %
Margin
(votes)
2,441
Total votes cast for
higher-placed
candidate
1,702,815
Description
PT candidate Edegar Pretto was narrowly defeated by incumbent governor Eduardo Leite who went on to face the pro-government candidate Onyx Lorenzoni. Leite ended up winning the election and was reelected.
| Year | Country / region | Election | District/race | Margin (%) | Margin (votes) | Total votes cast for higher-placed candidate | Description |
| 1962 | | 1962 Alabama Senate election | District 22 special Democratic primary | 0 % | 1 | 1,047 | The first round of the special Democratic primary saw state representative Rush "Doc" Smith beat out Roy H. Coshatt for the second-place spot in the runoff by a single vote. After the results were made official, Coshatt contested the election results, but his case was thrown out by the state Democratic executive committee, allowing Smith to advance |
| 2024 | | Romanian presidential | President of Romania | 0 % | 2,742 | 1,769,761 | Prime minister Marcel Ciolacu was narrowly defeated by Elena Lasconi who went on to face the nationalist Călin Georgescu in a run-off. Ciolacu was ahead until 99 % of the votes were counted. This was the first time since 2000 that a nationalist candidate made it into the second round instead of either the National Liberals nor the now defunct Dem |
| 2022 | | 2022 Rio Grande do Sul gubernatorial election | Governor of Rio Grande do Sul | 0 % | 2,441 | 1,702,815 | PT candidate Edegar Pretto was narrowly defeated by incumbent governor Eduardo Leite who went on to face the pro-government candidate Onyx Lorenzoni. Leite ended up winning the election and was reelected. |
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