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Runoff, recounts for three races
Posted: 05.08.2010 at 11:33 PM
Sergio Chapa

Sergio is KGBT's Interactive Manager and a reporter for VALLEYCENTRAL.COM.

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Action 4 News followed 71 elections across the Rio Grande Valley on Saturday night but three of them may not be settled.

One race is headed to a runoff while one is headed towards a recount and a third might also need a recount.

The Weslaco mayor's race ended without a clear victor on Saturday night.

Challenger Miguel Wise got more votes than incumbent Buddy de la Rosa but failed to get more than 50 percent of the vote.

Miguel Wise1,888  (49 percent)
Buddy de la Rosa1,162  (30 percent)
Andrew Levine795  (21 percent)

In Harlingen, challenger Elaine Flores got three more votes than incumbent Robert Leftwich for the City Commission District 1 seat.

Leftwich told the race will got to an automatic recount and that provisional ballots and mail-in ballots will be scrutinized.

In La Feria, the school district Trustee Place 4 race with a narrow margin.

Pancho Cobarrubias defeated Lalo Sosa by nine votes.

Action 4 News could not reach either candidate in the La Feria ISD Trustee Place 4 race.

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