BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. — Residents of Brooklyn Park will need to wait just a bit longer to learn who won the city's special election for Mayor.
Candidate Lisa Jacobson won the initial count by just one vote Aug. 10, setting the stage for a recount. That recount will take place more than a week after the last voters cast their ballots.
After the polls closed, Jacobson had 3,415 votes -- followed closely by Hollies Winston with 3,414 votes. There were 26 votes for write-in candidates.
City officials said Winston requested the recount Friday at a City Council meeting.
"This race could not have been closer and a recount is part of the process," Winston wrote on Twitter. He called the night of the election an "emotional rollercoaster."
The recount is set to begin at 9 a.m. Thursday in the city's Community Activity Center. Each precinct will announce recount results that day, and compare them to the initial results.
The recount results will be brought to the city's Canvassing Board on Monday, Aug. 23.
The winner will take over the seat of former mayor Jeffrey Lunde, who is now a Hennepin County Commissioner.
