Gerardo Vildostegui (D) keeps Surfside Commission seat after recount
Gerardo Vildostegui, the only incumbent who ran to keep his seat on the Surfside Commission this past Tuesday, has officially won re-election following recounts triggered by a too-close vote margin on Election Day.
Vildostegui edged challenger Yonathan Berdugo by just six votes in an at-large contest for four Town Commission seats, where voters could pick up to four candidates among eight total whom they wanted to see elected.
He won by 0.1 percentage points — well within the 0.5-point threshold that triggers a machine recount and the 0.25 points that require a manual tally of ballots.
But he’ll return to Town Hall to an otherwise newly populated Commission; candidates Donna Dayana Benmergui, Dovid “David” Weingot and Andrea Travani all won seats after respectively taking 15.8%, 15.7% and 14.8% of the vote Tuesday.
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