NEW: Councilman Jackson Will Retain 3rd Ward Council Seat
Wednesday, November 05, 2014
One of the most passionate subtexts of the Providence Mayor's race between Jorge Elorza and Vincent "Buddy" Cianci was an Elorza attempt to take out Jackson - Cianci's Co-Chair - with a write in candidate.
After machine's Elorza's candidate had a slight advantage -- Marcus Mitchell.
Machine Count:
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTWRITE-IN 1829 ( 50% )
Kevin E. JACKSON(DEM) 1807 ( 49% )
Now, after a recount of ballots and a count of mail ballots, Jackson has taken an "unsurpassable" lead of 1,942 votes for Jackson to 1,864 votes for Mitchell.
Some ballots are disputed, but Jackson's legal team tells GoLocal that this lead will hold and Mitchell is most likely to lose votes.
Jackson is poised to become the Council Majority Leader and he and Councilman Luis Aponte have teamed to take control of the Providence City Council.
Mayor-elect Elorza may now be facing a City Council looking to extract a little revenge.
Jackson has served as Councilman in the Third Ward since 1995.
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Each week, the Providence Police Department releases its "Weekly Crime Comparison Report" on its website. The breakdown covers how many crimes have occured in the past week, past month, and year to date in each Police District and comparing them with the same time interval from the year prior, reflecting changes in crime rates. GoLocal has distilled the key data points from this weeks report to reflect YTD crime data grouped by general category- violent, property, other, and total. For the full report as filed by the PPD, click here.
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