Republican Tom McClintock is now officially the congressman-elect from California’s Fourth District after his Democratic rival, Charlie Brown, conceded the race this afternoon.
McClintock declared victory earlier in the week, but Brown’s campaign hinted it would ask for a recount. But with McClintock leading by 1,576 votes, Brown today decided not to contest the race.
"Unfortunately, we've come up less than one half of one percent -- just under 1,800 votes -- short of victory," Brown said in a statement. "So a short time ago, I called Senator Tom McClintock to congratulate him on a hard fought victory, and to wish him well in Congress."
This puts the current tally of the new House of Representatives at:
Democrats: 255
Republicans: 176
Only four House races have yet to be resolved.
In Ohio's 15th district, Republican Steve Stivers leads Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy by 594 votes. But the outcome of this election depends on an imminent decision by the Ohio Supreme Court about whether to count about 27,000 disputed provisional ballots from Democratic-leaning Franklin County, which is also Kilroy's native county. If the court rules in favor of counting the ballots, the Democrats will pick up this seat.
In Virginia's 5th district, Democrat Tom Perriello leads Republican incumbent Virgil Goode by 745 votes after the final tally. But state law requires a margin of that size to give way to an automatic recount, which will take place on December 16. Perriello's lead is expected to hold, but nothing will be official until all of the 316,679 votes are recounted on that day.
There will be elections in Louisiana's 2nd and 4th districts on Saturday, which were postponed by Hurricane Ike. I'll have more on those races later this week.
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