The Associated Press will not declare winners in the races for Florida governor and Senate until state officials certify the results next week.
In the race for governor, Republican Ron DeSantis leads Democrat Andrew Gillum by 33,684 votes of more than 8.2 million votes counted.
In the race for Senate, Republican Rick Scott leads Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson by 12,562 votes.
Both races were the subject of machine ballot recounts due Thursday afternoon, and results were pending.
Gillum initially conceded the governor’s race on election night but later said he wanted to see every vote counted once a state-mandated recount was initiated.
Florida counties have until Sunday to report final vote tallies, and state officials would certify those results next Tuesday.
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Florida counties have reached the deadline for submitting the results of their election recounts.
A federal judge earlier rejected a request to give counties more time beyond the 3 p.m. Thursday deadline to finish their recounts. Palm Beach County’s election supervisor had warned that the county would not be able to complete the recount on time.
The election will be certified Tuesday.
The state’s 67 counties were required to do machine recounts of more than 8 million ballots cast in the contentious midterms. The U.S. Senate and governor’s races were among the three within the vote margin to trigger a machine recount.
Several lawsuits have been filed by Democrats and Republicans in the wake of the close election.
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