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We have a winner: Mary Jo Kilroy (D) defeats former OH House Rep. Steve Stivers (R)


Finally:

Now it’s official: Mary Jo Kilroy will be going to Washington as the first Democrat to represent any part of Franklin County in Congress in a generation. 

Final vote tallies released this evening by the Franklin County Board of Elections show that Kilroy defeated Republican state Sen. Steve Stivers by 2,311 votes out of 304,053, outside of the 0.5 percent margin to trigger a recount.

Kilroy, a Franklin County commissioner who ran unsuccessfully for Congress two years ago, declared victory within an hour of the release of the vote tallies.

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Pryce defeated Kilroy by 1,062 votes after a recount in 2006.

Don’t know if it will be enough to put the percentage of women in Congress over 18% but a win is a win. Many congratulations to Rep.-elect Kilroy and her tenacity and stamina.

Hattip Plunderbund.

Stivers is conceding the race and will not request a recount, spokesman Rob Nichols said.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:15 pm December 7th, 2008 in Congress, Democrats, Elections, Ohio, Politics, Statehouse, Voting, Women 

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