Naples mayor and city council race headed for recount

Reporter: Amy Galo
Published: Updated:

The City of Naples has yet to announce a winner for mayor and city council.

According to the unofficial vote results, both the Naples Mayor and Naples City Council race are headed for a recount Tuesday night.

In the race for mayor, Heitmann and Price were separated by just .1% or just 12 votes.

In the race for city council, the third and fourth-place candidates (Barton and Perez-Benitoa) were separated by just .2%

According to the Collier County Supervisor Office of Elections: “A recount is trigged with a margin of one half of one percent. It’s not official, but it’s looking like it’s going that way.”

The Collier Supervisor of Elections Melissa R. Blazier said, “Machines recounts have been triggered in both races. Once the machine recounts have been completed, we will go into manual recounts on both.”

According to Blazier, the time and date for the machine recount will be decided in the morning.

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