Mr. Green, who came within 44,000 votes of being elected mayor in 2001, said last night that he would never run again.

Although the Conservatives never won the seat, they came within 1200 votes of doing so in 1983.

The teachers came within two votes of having a dress code of their own earlier this month.

The final result ended up being closer than expected as Young, who had never run for or held city-wide office, came within 10,000 votes.

Last fall we came within six votes, and it will probably be close again this time.

The close election saw three other candidates come within 3,000 votes of Shumlin.

That year he came within 500 votes of Bischof, and was asked to run again during the next election cycle.

However, Balfour came within 70 votes of winning the seat.

She campaigned aggressively and came within less than 1,000 votes of winning.

Peters came within 5,200 votes of Cox-less than a 0.17 percent margin.