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Originally posted by bluebomber
<SNIP> you'll find that there are a number of local elections that were decided by less than a hundred votes. Several were overturned on recount (including a tie that was decided in a recount).
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My favourite Voting Counts story:
On 18 January 1961, in Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania), the Afro-Shirazi Party won the general elections by a single seat, after the seat of Chake-Chake on Pemba Island was won by a single vote.
Now I don't know how many people didn't vote in that election but you can bet all those who didn't like the result and didn't vote were kicking themselves.