A Machine Recount in Florida House District 33 Confirms Dan McDow's Win Over Incumbent Monique Miller by 286 Votes: 73,759 People Voted, the Split Was 50.2 Percent to 49.8 Percent, and Brevard County's Canvassing Board Certifies on Friday
MELBOURNE, Brevard County, Florida — After a day of machine recounts at the Brevard County Supervisor of Elections office, the Florida House of Representatives District 33 race was decided with Democrat Dan McDow as the winner, maintaining his margin of less than half a percent to defeat Republican incumbent Monique Miller, Florida Today reported. The recount results put McDow 286 votes ahead of his opponent, and Supervisor of Elections data shows 73,759 people voted in the race.
McDow, a former West Melbourne city councilman, will now represent Palm Bay and West Melbourne in Tallahassee, and will be Brevard's only Democrat in a state office after unseating Miller, who won the legislative race by nearly 13 points in 2024. With McDow receiving 50.2 percent to Miller's 49.8 percent, neither candidate's total share of the vote budged after the recount. McDow lost two votes in the recount, and Miller gained only one vote after the elections board determined one of McDow's votes was a stray mark on the ballot. Both candidates were present watching the recount take place. After the recount, McDow left to prepare for the legislative orientation in Tallahassee taking place November 11.
The House race was one of two Brevard County races to go to a recount after the November 3 election. In the Cape Canaveral City Council race, results were tallied by machine on November 10 at the Election Support Center in Melbourne, and staff planned to conduct a manual recount of the 8,222 votes cast on November 11. Supervisor of Elections Tim Bobanic said in a statement that after the machine recount for the Cape Canaveral race there was no change in the total number of votes, so the race was still at a margin of 0.2 percent, which triggers a manual recount. In that race, Dan Coon led Brad Pervell by just 17 votes out of more than 8,000 cast for the third seat.
The District 33 seat had appeared to be a Republican stronghold. According to Supervisor of Elections data, Republicans in District 33 outnumber Democrats 54,289 to 39,004 out of the district's 134,213 total registered voters. State rules call for the ballots from the recount races to be rerun through tabulating machines, and if the recounted totals are separated by less than 0.25 percent, the canvassing board examines the ballots rejected by the machines for clear indications of voter choice. The Brevard County Canvassing Board is scheduled to certify the election results on Friday. A statewide media compilation put McDow's win as the seat that brought Democrats to 50 in the Florida House.
Source: Florida Today
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