On the original vote count, votes against the proposition were ten more than those in favor. In 1989 – A Lansing, Michigan School District millage proposition failed when the final recount produced a tie vote 5,147 for, and 5,147 against. Nixon resigned when the State House determined, after a recount, that he had actually lost to his opponent Robert Emond 572 to 571.
In 1977 – Vermont State representative Sydney Nixon was seated as an apparent one vote winner, 570 to 569. In 1962 – Governors of Maine, Rhode Island and North Dakota were elected by an average of one vote per precinct. Johnson over ex-Governor Coke Steven in a contested Senatorial election. In 1948 – A Texas Convention voted for Lyndon B. In 1941 – Congress amended the active-service component of the Selective Service Act from one year to two-and-a-half years by one vote, 203 to 202. In 1876 – Samuel Tilden won the presidential popular vote but came up one electoral vote shy and lost to Rutherford B. In 1868 – President Andrew Johnson was Impeached but not convicted because the Senate was one vote shy of the necessary two thirds required. In 1867 – The Alaska purchase was ratified in the Senate by two votes: 37-2, paving the way for future statehood. In 1846 – President Polk’s request for a Declaration of War against Mexico passed by one vote. Senate passed the convention annexing Texas by two votes (27/25). In 1824 – Andrew Jackson won the presidential popular vote but lost by one vote in the House of Representatives to John Quincy Adams after an Electoral College dead-lock. In 1800 – Thomas Jefferson was elected President by one vote in the House of Representatives after a tie in the Electoral College.
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