Sylvie Parent has been confirmed as mayor of Longueuil after a judge ordered a judicial recount of the Nov. 5 election results.
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Ten teams of election staff recounted 200 of the 495 ballot boxes after second-place candidate Josée Latendresse requested it.
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The first time the ballots were counted, Parent beat Latendresse for the mayoralty by 118 votes.
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Her victory has now been confirmed. The margin of victory now stands at 110 votes.
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Lawyers for Latendresse say they will go back and ask the court to approve a recount of all 58,326 ballots.
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There were 1,200 ballots that were deemed invalid in the original count.
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