Stein's tally of districts is well short of the total 9,163 across the state.
So far, the unofficial tally in the district, which stretches from the Upper East Side to East 14th Street, has Ms. Krueger ahead by 346 votes.
Lantos won with 76% of the vote in 2006, two percentage points higher than John Kerry's tally in the district against Bush in 2004.
Determining the precise voting tally in the district could still drag on for weeks: In California, election officials have until Dec. 7 to report final results to the secretary of state, who has an additional week to announce official winners.
Counting then proceeded painfully slowly, with the National Electoral Council suspending the tally in many districts, citing administrative problems like missing ballots or signatures leading the opposition to fear fraud.
Here, Board of Elections workers — not exactly the most error-free bunch to begin with — will print out the voting machine tapes, cut them into sections according to election districts, tally the votes by hand, enter the totals on sheets of paper and hand them to police officers, who will then carry the results to station houses, there to be entered into computers for public distribution.
The latest tally of the Senate district convention delegates on the Texas Democratic Party Web site showed Senator Barack Obama holding more than Mrs. Clinton.
Instead of winner-take-all, the results will be tallied in each Congressional district in key states Democrats usually win, so that the major population centers, in places such as Pennsylvania, will yield few net electoral votes for the President.
In fact, both parties are trying to change the system for electing the American president: the Republicans by taking account of the candidates' tallies in congressional districts (as Maine and Nebraska currently do) and the Democrats by eliminating the Electoral College altogether and replacing it with election by the popular vote.
Until very recently, it wasn't clear how votes that were filed from abroad would be collected and tallied, and what districts they would be apportioned to.
