Talk:List of narrow elections

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It is fairly common in UK local elections for exact ties to occur where two candidates receive exactly the same number of votes. Such an incident occured, for example, in the Osterley ward of the London Borough of Hounslow in 1998. In such cases, the Returning Officer uses 'any random method' to award the casting vote to one of the candidates and thus determine the winner.

A couple of such incidents occur in every set of local elections (i.e. every year) and they'd probably be too numerous to list in this table. Perhaps a List of tied elections article should be set up? --81.19.57.170 10:17, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Marcus Morton

This article says Marcus Morton won the Massachusetts gubernatorial election of 1839 by two votes. The article on Marcus Morton says that he won by one vote. According to snopes at http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/onevote.asp the election was by one vote. Nightkey (talk) 17:50, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Actually, the snopes article says that Morton recieved 51,034 votes out of 102,066 cast. Doing the math, his opponent must have received 51,032 votes -- 2 votes less than Morton. While one vote may have changed the ultimate outcome, the margin was 2 votes, and while it may be correct to say that "he won by 1 vote," the table's listing of the elector margin is correct. - Sethant (talk) 19:19, 14 January 2008 (UTC)