An additional 5,511 Republican write-in votes for McCarthy meant that in the overall tally he trailed the President by a scant 230 votes.
He won his home state of Minnesota by a scant 3,800 votes (less than 0.2 percent).
The PRD's presidential candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, lost the national election by a scant 244,000 votes, 0.58% of the total, to Felipe Calderón of the centre-right National Action Party.
The result was confirmed just before Thanksgiving after a recount in Newark that gave Mr. Baer the victory by a scant eight votes.
In a special election last March, voters in Assembly District 31, in Far Rockaway, Springfield Gardens and South Ozone Park, elected Pauline Rhodd-Cummings, candidate of the Queens Democratic Party, by a scant 211 votes.
Mr. Cleland, who won his first Senate term in 1996 by a scant 30,000 votes, ran strongly in the cities, while Mr. Chambliss, a friend to gun owners and an ardent foe of abortion, won handily in rural Georgia.
The race had been decided by a scant 3,117 votes out of more than 1.3 million cast and was one of the last unfinished contests of this month's election.
Final results, minus 300 absentee ballots that remained to be counted, showed Jacobs leading by a scant 19 votes--45.9%, compared with Yarbrough's 45.8%.
Cityhood was approved by voters there in June 1983 by a scant 15 votes out of 3,500, but cityhood opponents challenged the count, saying that pro-incorporation campaign workers had completed absentee ballots for many voters and delivered them illegally.
Those who bothered to go to the polls cast their ballots for almost anyone but the governing Labor Party candidates, who got a scant 26percentt of the vote in local elections.
The party has won just one presidential contest in the past 44 years, in 1976, when Jimmy Carter eked out victory with a scant 51% of the vote.
