[EL] History of statewide recounts

[Adam Bonin]

According to Wikipedia - so it might be true! - in modern history that race
is first (in terms of closeness percentage of overall vote), Gregoire-Rossi
in WA-GOV 2004 is second, and the LBJ-Coke Stevenson primary of 1948 is
third.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_close_election_results 

 

--Adam

 

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
[mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of John
Fund
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 3:33 PM
To: Michael P McDonald; law-election at UCI.edu
Subject: Re: [EL] History of statewide recounts

 

how about New Hampshire US Senate race of 1974, so close It had a makeover
in 1975

On Sunday, November 10, 2013 3:26 PM, Michael P McDonald <mmcdon at gmu.edu>
wrote:
 

In Virginia we are narrowing down to an election outcome where the two
candidates for Attorney general will be separated by perhaps less than 100
votes out of 2.2 million. Reporters want to know if this will be the closest
statewide margin in history where there were, say, over 1 million vote cast.
So, I throw the question to the combined wisdom of the list serve: what was
the closest statewide election in history?

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