Recount gives NDP historic seat total

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The New Democratic Party has captured one more seat in Quebec after a judicial recount of ballots from the May 2 federal election determined its candidate upended a Conservative incumbent by nine votes.

Conservative Bernard Généreux was declared the winner on election night in the eastern Quebec riding of Montmagny-L'Islet-Kamouraska-Rivière-du-Loup, with a 110-vote lead over the NDP's François Lapointe.

But a tabulation error awarded about 100 NDP votes to the Green Party, and when the results were validated the next day, Lapointe came out on top by five votes.

The narrow victory margin prompted a judicial recount that began Wednesday and concluded Friday evening with Lapointe being confirmed the winner by nine votes. Elections Canada calls in a judge every time the margin of victory is less than a thousandth of the total votes cast.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/05/14/cv-election-recount-ndp-quebec-seat.html