List of close election results

This is a list of close election results at national and state level.

It lists results that have been decided by a margin of less than 1 vote in 1000 (a margin of victory of less than 0.1%).

Lists

Year	Country / Region	Election	Race	Margin (%)	Margin (votes)	Total votes cast	Description
1994		Quebec general	Saint-Jean	0%	0	38,894	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.[1]
2003		Quebec general	Champlain	0%	0	33,919	PQ candidate Noëlla Champagne tied with Liberal Pierre Brouillette. Consequently, a new vote was held 36 days later, which Champagne won by 642 votes.[2]
1963		Canadian general	Pontiac—Témiscamingue	0%	0	16,587	Progressive Conservative incumbent Paul Martineau defeated Liberal Paul-Oliva Goulet. A deciding vote was cast by the returning officer after the two candidates tied.[3]
2015		Mississippi state	Legislative district 79	0%	0	9,178	Democrat incumbent Blaine Eaton initially won re-election over Republican Mark Tullos by drawing the long straw.[4] However, Tullos asked the State House to seat him, and they did so in a largely party-line vote.[5]
2013		Philippine local	San Teodoro, Oriental Mindoro	0%	0	6,472+	The vote was tied, so a coin toss was the agreed upon way to determine the winner. A second round was held after both candidates were still tied in the first round.[6]
1886		UK general	Ashton-under-Lyne	0%	0	6,099	The vote was tied, so, under the law of the day, the returning officer was given a casting vote.[7]
1999		Nova Scotia general	Shelburne	0%	0	3,206	Progressive Conservative Cecil O'Donnell defeated Liberal Clifford Huskilson. The deciding vote was cast by the returning officer after the two candidates tied.
1887		Canadian federal	Joliette	0%	0	3,065	Conservative Édouard Guilbault defeated Liberal F. Neveu. The deciding vote was cast by the returning officer after the two candidates tied.[8]
1896		Canadian federal	Assiniboia West	0%	0	3,005	Conservative Nicholas Flood Davin defeated independent John K. McInnes. The deciding vote was cast by the returning officer after the two candidates tied.[9]
2014		French municipal	Lescar	0%	0	2,670	Christian Laine (socialist) tied Philippe Coy. By virtue of French Law, the oldest candidate (Christian Laine) has been elected. The election was canceled by French Court, and Christian Laine finally won by a 71-vote margin.[10]
2011		Swiss federal election	Ticino	0%	0	23,979	Marco Romano and Monica Duca both had 23,979 votes.[11] On 25 November 2011, lots were then drawn to determine who had won the seat, and Marco Romano was declared the winner.[12]
1968		South Australian House of Assembly	Seat of Millicent	0.01362%	1	7,342	Des Corcoran of the Australian Labor Party beat Martin Cameron of the Liberal and Country League, 3635 votes to 3634.
1974		New Hampshire senate		0.00090%	2	223,363	Louis Wyman beat John A. Durkin after several recounts. The US Senate called for a re-vote, which Durkin won.[13]
1984		Indiana state	8th Congressional district	0.00171%	4	233,286	Indiana's Secretary of State (a Republican) certified Rick McIntyre as the winner by 34 votes, ignoring other recounted tallies that actually showed Frank McCloskey was in the lead. The Democratic-controlled House conducted their own recount. The House seated McCloskey after declaring him the winner by just four votes.
1839		Massachusetts gubernatorial		0.00195%	2	102,066	Marcus Morton won the governorship by two votes.
2003		Russian legislative	Sverdlovsk Oblast District 163	0.00221%	5	225,484	Incumbent Georgy Leontyev held the seat by five votes,[14] despite allegations of vote manipulations, later rejected by the Supreme Court [15]
1997		UK general	Winchester	0.00322%	2	62,054	Mark Oaten gained the seat from the Conservatives (the result was later annulled and Oaten won by 21,000 votes in the subsequent by-election). This was the smallest percentage majority and the joint smallest numerical majority, in a UK Parliamentary election, since universal adult suffrage.
2004		Washington gubernatorial		0.00473%	133	2,810,058	Democrat Christine Gregoire defeated Republican Dino Rossi, following two recounts, after the initial count and first recount showed Rossi as the winner.
1931		UK general	Ilkeston	0.00569%	2	35,172	A.J. Flint (National Labour) gained the seat from George Oliver (Labour) in a straight fight (the joint smallest numerical majority in a UK Parliamentary election, since universal adult suffrage).[16]
2001		Cape Verdean presidential		0.00791%	12	153,406	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.[17]
2010		UK general	Fermanagh and South Tyrone	0.00855%	4	46,803	Michelle Gildernew (Sinn Féin) defeated independent Rodney Connor.[18]
1948		Texas senate	Democratic primary runoff	0.00880%	87	988,295	Lyndon Johnson is declared the winner over Coke Stevenson, despite suspicion about 200 mysterious votes from precinct 13 of Jim Wells County.
2000		United States presidential, Florida		0.00901%	537	5,962,657	Republican George W. Bush defeated Democrat Al Gore after a mandatory statewide recount. An additional hand recount was halted by the United States Supreme Court.
1972		Canadian federal	Ontario	0.00949%	4	42,150	Liberal incumbent Norman Cafik defeated Progressive Conservative Frank Charles McGee.[19]
2008		Alaska	District 7	0.00997%[20]	1[20]	10,035[20]	Incumbent Republican Mike Kelly defeated Democratic challenger Karl Kassel by one vote following a recount.[21]
1832		United States presidential	Maryland	0.01044%	4	38,316	National Republican Henry Clay carried Maryland by four votes over Democratic President Andrew Jackson, but Jackson was reelected handily.[22]
1910		UK general	Exeter	0.01047%	1	9,553	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.[23]
2008		United States Senate, Minnesota		0.0108%	312	2,887,646	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.[24] 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.[25]
1994		Connecticut	Second Congressional district	0.01129%	21	186,071	After two recounts, Sam Gejdenson had 21 more votes than Edward Munster.
2002		German federal		0.01256%[26]	6,027	47,996,480 valid (in a total of 48,582,761)
1968		Canadian federal	Leeds	0.01376%	4	29,073	Progressive Conservative Desmond Code defeated Liberal incumbent John Matheson.[27]
2009		British Columbia general	Delta South	0.1363%	32	23,477	Independent candidate Vicky Huntington defeats Attorney General Wally Oppal, running for the first time in Delta South in a recount called after Oppal was leading by 2 votes in the initial count.[28]
1930		Canadian federal	Yamaska	0.01427%	1	7,009	Liberal incumbent Aimé Boucher defeated Conservative Paul-François Comtois.[29] The riding result was later declared void, and Boucher won the by-election in 1933 by 84 votes (0.1%).
1949		Canadian federal	Annapolis—Kings	0.01515%	4	26,400	Liberal Angus Alexander Elderkin defeated Progressive Conservative incumbent George Nowlan.[30]
2003		Somaliland presidential		0.01637%	80	488,543	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.[31]
1988		Canadian federal	London—Middlesex	0.01654%	8	48,358	Progressive Conservative MP Terry Clifford narrowly edged out Liberal Garnet Bloomfield.[32]
2005		Virginia	Attorney General	0.01662%	323	1,943,250	Bob McDonnell was certified as the victor over Creigh Deeds following a recount.[33]
2012		ACT general		0.0185%	41	221,172	The Canberra Liberal Party received more first preference votes than the ruling Labor Party.[34] Ultimately the Labor Party formed a minority government with the support of the sole ACT Greens MLA.
2006		Oklahoma state		0.020846%	2	9,594	After a recount, Republican Todd Thomsen beat Democrat Darrel Nemecek by two votes for the Oklahoma House of Representatives seat in its 25th district.[35][36][37]
1935		Canadian federal	Vancouver—Burrard	0.02133%	6	28,130	Liberal Gerald Grattan McGeer defeated Co-operative Commonwealth Arnold Alexander Webster.[38]
1896		Canadian federal	Ontario North	0.02148%	1	4,655	Liberal-Conservative John Alexander McGillivray defeated Patrons of Industry Duncan Graham.[9]
1997		UK general	Torbay	0.02250%	12	53,322	Liberal Democrat candidate Adrian Sanders gained the seat from the sitting Conservative MP Rupert Allason. It was subsequently reported that Allason lost the seat through failing to leave a tip when dining at a restaurant in his constituency shortly before polling day. It was estimated that 14 voters (restaurant staff and their close family members) switched allegiance from Allason to other candidates as a result. He lost by 12 votes.
1904		United States presidential	Maryland	0.02274%	51	224,229	Republican President Theodore Roosevelt barely carried Maryland over Democrat Alton Parker on his way to an electoral landslide.[39]
1900		Canadian federal	Selkirk	0.02303%	1	4,343	Liberal William Forsythe McCreary defeated Conservative John Herber Haslam.[40] This was the second time in a row that a Liberal candidate defeated his Conservative rival in this riding by a single vote.
1900		Canadian federal	Bruce North	0.02422%	1	4,129	Liberal-Conservative incumbent Alexander McNeill defeated Liberal J. E. Campbell.[40]
2010		Illinois gubernatorial	Republican primary	0.02515%	193	767,485	Bill Brady defeated Kirk Dillard.[41][42]
1912		United States presidential	California	0.02567%	174	677,944	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.[43]
1930		Canadian federal	Norfolk—Elgin	0.02654%	5	18,843	Liberal William H. Taylor defeated Conservative John Lawrence Stansell.[29]
2007		Australian federal	Division of McEwen	0.02794%	31	96,647	Liberal Fran Bailey defeated Labor Rob Mitchell following a recount and court challenge.[44][45]
2012		United States presidential	Iowa Republican caucuses	0.02798%	34	121,503	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.[46] Romney had been declared the winner by 8 votes on caucus night.
2008		Canadian federal	Kitchener—Waterloo	0.02808%	17	60,534	Conservative Peter Braid defeated Liberal Andrew Telegdi after a recount.[47]
1891		Canadian federal	Wentworth South	0.02821%	1	3,545	Conservative Franklin Carpenter defeated Liberal James T. Russell.[48]
1935		Canadian federal	Souris	0.02833%	3	10,589	Liberal-Progressive George William McDonald defeated Progressive Conservative incumbent Errick French Willis.[38]
1887		Canadian federal	Haldimand	0.02865%	1	3,491	Conservative Walter Humphries Montague defeated Liberal incumbent Charles Wesley Colter.[8]
1896		Canadian federal	Selkirk	0.02920%	1	3,425	Liberal John Alexander MacDonell defeated Conservative Hugh Armstrong.[9]
2011		Scottish general	Glasgow Anniesland	0.02927%	7	23,918	Incumbent Labour MSP Bill Butler was defeated by Bill Kidd of the Scottish National Party (SNP).[49]
2011		New Zealand general	Waitakere	0.02927%	9	30,747	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.[50][51]
2010			Kitchener City Council	0.02961%	1	3,377	Frank Etherington defeated Debbie Chapman.[52]
1968		Canadian federal	Comox—Alberni	0.02967%	9	30,331	Liberal Richard Durante defeated New Democrat incumbent Thomas Speakman Barnett.[27] The riding result was later declared void and Durante lost the by-election to Barnett in 1969.
2013		Australian federal	Division of Fairfax	0.03%	53	84,607	Clive Palmer (Palmer United Party) defeated Ted O'Brien of the Liberal National Party of Queensland following two recounts.[53]
1891		Canadian federal	Nicolet	0.03016%	1	3,316	Liberal Joseph Hector Leduc defeated Conservative E. C. Prince.[48]
1945		Canadian federal	Colchester—Hants	0.03273%	8	24,439	Progressive Conservative Frank Stanfield defeated Liberal incumbent Gordon Timlin Purdy.[54]
1968		Canadian federal	Oshawa—Whitby	0.03309%	15	45,332	New Democrat Ed Broadbent defeated Progressive Conservative incumbent Michael Starr.[27]
2000		Canadian federal	Champlain	0.03325%	15	45,111	Bloc Québécois candidate Marcel Gagnon narrowly edged out Liberal Julie Boulet.[55]
1993		Canadian federal	Edmonton Northwest	0.03410%	12	35,195	Liberal candidate Anne McLellan narrowly edged out Reform candidate Richard Kayler.[56]
1974		Canadian federal	Drummond	0.03521%	13	36,925	Liberal Yvon Pinard defeated Social Credit incumbent Jean-Marie Boisvert.[57]
1964		United States Senate, Nevada		0.03565%	48	134,624	Democratic incumbent Howard Cannon defeated Republican Paul Laxalt.[58]
1979		Canadian federal	Halifax	0.03662%	15	40,961	Progressive Conservative George Cooper defeated Liberal Brian Flemming.[59]
1990		Ohio	Attorney General	0.03672%	1,234	3,360,162	Democratic candidate Lee Fisher defeated Republican Paul Pfeifer after a six-week recount, earning him the ironic nickname "Landslide Lee".[60]
1896		Canadian federal	York East	0.03841%	1	3,425	Independent Conservative incumbent William F. McLean defeated Liberal Henry R. Frankland.[9]
2013		Virginia Attorney General		0.04097%	907	2,214,075	Democratic candidate Mark Herring defeated Republican candidate Mark Obenshain after a recount.
2011		Canadian federal	Nipissing—Timiskaming	0.04258%	18	42,271	Conservative Jay Aspin defeated Liberal incumbent Anthony Rota.[61]
2004		Montana house	District 12	0.04735%	2	4,224	Democrat Jeanne Windham defeated Constitution Party candidate Rick Jore.
2008		Canadian federal	Vancouver South	0.04779%	20	41,852	Liberal Ujjal Dosanjh defeated Conservative Wai Young after two recounts.[62]
1887		Canadian federal	Montmorency	0.05328%	1	1,877	Liberal Charles Langelier defeated Conservative P. V. Valin.[8]
1959		Sinaporean general	River Valley	0.05328%	5	9,384	People's Action Party candidate Lim Cheng Lock defeated Soh Ghee Soon of the Singapore People's Alliance.[63]
1892		United States presidential	California	0.0545234%	147	269,609	Former President Grover Cleveland narrowly carried California over Republican President Benjamin Harrison and went on to reclaim the presidency in a rematch of the 1888 presidential elections, thus becoming both the 22nd and 24th president of the United States.[64]
2010		Ohio	Lakeview Local Schools tax levy	0.05602%	2	3,570	The tax levy passed by two votes.[65]
2006		Canadian federal	Parry Sound—Muskoka	0.06064%	28	46,171	Conservative candidate Tony Clement narrowly edged out Liberal MP Andy Mitchell.[66]
2000		United States presidential	New Mexico	0.06114%	366	598,605	Since Florida's electoral votes decided George W. Bush's electoral college win over Al Gore, little attention was paid to the fact that New Mexico's outcome was even closer (in terms of raw vote) than the Florida result, this time with Gore coming out ahead.[67]
1988		Canadian federal	Northumberland, Ontario	0.06190%	28	45,235	Liberal candidate Christine Stewart narrowly edged out Progressive Conservative Reg Jewell.[32]
1896		United States presidential	Kentucky	0.0621177%	277	445,928	William McKinley was elected president twice by comfortable Electoral College majorities, but his only victory in a Southern state was his razor-thin win over William Jennings Bryan in Kentucky in his initial presidential run.[68]
1960		United States presidential	Hawaii	0.0622614%	115	184,705	Just a year after becoming the 50th State, Hawaii surprised many political experts by voting for Democrat John F. Kennedy over Republican Richard Nixon, albeit by a very small margin.[69]
1916		United States presidential	New Hampshire	0.0628317%	56	89,127	Although the 0.38% victory margin for President Woodrow Wilson in California—which gave Wilson the 13 electoral votes he needed to win reelection over Republican Charles Evans Hughes—garnered most of the attention, Wilson's surprise 56-vote victory over Hughes in New Hampshire (the only Northeastern state that Hughes didn't carry) was the closest contest in the election.[70]
2004		Ohio Senate	14th District Republican primary	0.06517%	22	33,760	Jean Schmidt won the first count by 62 votes, but Tom Niehaus prevailed in a recount and went on to win the general election.[60]
1891		Canadian federal	Grey South	0.06572%	3	4,565	Liberal incumbent George Landerkin defeated Conservative John Blyth.[48]
2006		Italian general		0.06583%	25,115	38,153,343	The centre-left coalition The Union led by Romano Prodi defeated the centre-right House of Freedoms of incumbent Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.[71]
1972		Canadian federal	Selkirk	0.06690%	30	44,841	New Democrat incumbent Doug Rowland defeated Progressive Conservative Dean Whiteway.[19]
1940		Canadian federal	Cumberland	0.06842%	12	17,537	Liberal Percy Chapman Black defeated National Government incumbent Kenneth Judson Cochrane.[72]
2002		Colorado	7th Congressional district	0.06877%	121	175,938	In the first race in this newly created Congressional district, Republican Bob Beauprez narrowly beat out Democrat Mike Feeley.[73]
2004		North Carolina State Agriculture Commissioner		0.07066%	2,353	3,330,187	Republican Steve Troxler defeated Democrat Britt Cobb.
2014		Arizona	Second Congressional district	0.073398%	161	219,351	Martha McSally defeated Ron Barber, officially announced a month after the election, after a legally-mandated recount.[74] McSally had lost to Barber in 2012 by 2,454 votes.
2000		Canadian federal	Laval Centre	0.07667%	42	54,782	Bloc Québécois MP Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral narrowly edged out Liberal Pierre Lafleur.[55]
2013		New Jersey General Assembly	District 2	0.07954%	40	50,288	Democrat Vince Mazzeo defeated incumbent Republican John F. Amodeo after a recount.[75]
1988		Canadian federal	York North	0.08767%	77	87,825	Liberal Maurizio Bevilacqua narrowly edged out Progressive Conservative Michael O'Brien.[32]
1984		Canadian federal	Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke	0.08792%	38	43,219	Liberal MP Len Hopkins narrowly edged out Progressive Conservative Don Whillans.[76]
2014		Parliament of South Australia	Fisher state by-election	0.088%	9	20,559	By-election caused by the death of sitting independent MP Bob Such. The Australian Labor Party candidate Nat Cook beat the Liberal Party candidate by 9 votes.
2005		UK general	Crawley	0.08815%	37	41,973	Labour MP Laura Moffatt retains seat.
2012		French legislative	Eure second constituency	0.08928%	39	43,681	Socialist Jean-Louis Destans defeated incumbent Jean-Pierre Nicolas[77]
2000		Washington United States Senate		0.09055%	2,229	2,461,379	Democrat Maria Cantwell unseats Republican Slade Gorton following a mandatory recount.
1965		Canadian federal	Shefford	0.09334%	27	28,926	Liberal Louis-Paul Neveu defeated Progressive Conservative Paul-O. Trépanier.[78]
1874		Canadian federal	Leeds South	0.09372%	3	3,201	Conservative David Ford Jones beat challenger W. H. Fredenburgh.[79]
1962		Canadian federal	St. John's West	0.09391%	24	25,557	Liberal Richard Cashin defeated Progressive Conservative incumbent William Joseph Browne.[80]
2016		Taiwanese general	Taoyuan legislative district 4	0.09385%	162	172,622	KMT incumbent Yang Li-Huan claimed edged DDP challenger Cheng Pao-Ching by 30 votes, when latter Central Election Commission said Cheng won with 169 votes. The recount in 5 days saw Cheng won by 162 votes.[81]
2016		United States Senate, New Hampshire		0.09704%	716	737,772	Democrat Maggie Hassan defeated Republican incumbent Kelly Ayotte to win New Hampshire's Senate seat.
1884		United States presidential	New York	0.09844%	1,149	1,167,169	Democrat Grover Cleveland edged out James G. Blaine to win New York's decisive 36 electoral votes.
1878		Canadian federal	Jacques Cartier	0.09911%	2	2,018	Conservative Désiré Girouard defeated Liberal incumbent Rodolphe Laflamme.[82]
1921		Canadian federal	Calgary West	0.09955%	16	16,073	Labour Joseph Tweed Shaw defeated Conservative R. B. Bennett who was, at the time, Minister of Justice.[83]
2000		South Korean legislative election, 2000	Gwangju	0.00614%	3	48,828	GNP Park Hyuk-kyu defeated MDP Moon Hak-jin by an official tally of 3 vote difference. Subsequent re-counting closed down the difference to 2 votes, with no effect to the outcome of the election.[84]

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