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ALBANY, N.Y. — The candidates in a congressional special election that focused on President Barack Obama and his economic policy were separated by 65 votes Tuesday, meaning absentee ballots will decide the race.
With all precincts reporting, Democrat Scott Murphy led Republican Jim Tedisco in the race to replace Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, picked to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Senate.
Murphy had 77,344 votes; Tedisco had 77,279 votes.
Nearly 6,000 of 10,000 mailed absentee ballots had been returned.
This story has been corrected in this online archive. Originally, due to an editing error, the headline said the special election was for a Senate seat, not a U.S. House seat.
