Recount withdrawn; Brick re-elected

Bob Brick has been re-elected to Place 1 on the College Station City Council after Thursday’s recount was withdrawn.

After absentee and mail-in ballots were recounted with no changes to the outcome, challenger Jason Cornelius withdrew. The rest of the Election Day ballots will not be recounted.

Brick defeated Cornelius by just five votes in one of the closest elections in College Station history. Brick received 15,395 votes, and Cornelius had 15,390. Cornelius filed a petition for a manual recount last Friday.

One council seat remains to be decided. Place 5 incumbent John Nichols faces Craig Regan in a run-off election on Dec. 15.

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