New Hampshire, 1974: a 355-vote GOP win turns into a 10-vote Democratic recount triumph turns into a two-vote Republican win.
And then the U.S. Senate declared the seat vacant and ordered a special election. The Democrat won.
Entertaining reading on the U.S. Senate’s official site.
Thank you. A little perspective will help us all get through this without hysteria.
Wait, it’s Coleman and Franken … well, a minimum of hysteria, at least.
Might not be the closest in raw numbers, but I believe it might be when considering percentage of total votes cast. Couldn’t find total number of ’74 NH votes in linked article…
According to the Star Tribune:
http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/34064674.html
the initial recount results in that New Hampshire race were 110,924 to 110,914. That’s about 222,000 before counting third-party votes. So they probably didn’t even have 10% of the total ballots of our current race (2.9 million).