Conservative Kathy Borrelli narrowly upholds win in federal Windsor-area riding recount [Video]

A ballot recount in Windsor—Tecumseh—Lakeshore has confirmed a Conservative win in the border city riding, formalizing the party’s blue wave in Canada’s most southern tip. 

The recount, which started Tuesday and wrapped up Thursday, narrowed Conservative candidate Kathy Borrelli’s margin of victory over Liberal incumbent Irek Kusmierczyk to a mere four votes, according to Elections Canada.

The recount took place in a Tecumseh strip mall and took three days to complete.

Borrelli finished with 32,090 or 45.8 per cent of the votes. Kusmierczyk ended with 32,086 votes or 45.7 per cent. There were 458 rejected ballots listed as well.

Unofficial results for the riding after the April 28 federal election showed Borrelli had won by 233 votes. But once Elections Canada validated the results, that lead dropped to 77 — just seven votes shy of triggering an automatic recount based on the total number of votes cast in the riding.