Incumbent Côte Saint-Luc mayor Mitchell Brownstein to request recount after losing by a single vote

Longtime Côte Saint-Luc Mayor Mitchell Brownstein will be asking for a recount of Sunday’s election results after updated figures showed he lost by a single vote.

Sunday night’s unofficial results had Brownstein, the incumbent, defeating challenger David Tordjman by 50 votes.

But revised figures published Monday by Élections Québec, which were provided by the City of Côte Saint-Luc, showed Brownstein’s tally drop by 38 votes and Tordjman’s increase by 13 – putting the incumbent one vote behind.

Brownstein’s campaign Chair, Lawrence Bergman, told CityNews in a statement that updated vote tally “does not match our figures.”

“As such we will be asking for a recount and will not have any further statement until our request for recount is heard,” Bergman said.

The new numbers show Tordjman