Overview
- Palm Beach County’s Supervisor of Elections certified the final tally at 7,572 for Andy Thomson to 7,567 for Mike Liebelson after machine and manual reviews.
- An automatic recount cut Thomson’s election-night lead from six votes to one before a manual review of overvotes and undervotes set the margin at five.
- The City of Boca Raton said Thomson will be sworn in at an organizational meeting on March 31, 2026.
- Liebelson questioned 109 late-arriving vote-by-mail ballots and indicated he may pursue a legal challenge, with no court action confirmed.
- The flip ends more than 30 years without a Democratic-aligned mayor following a campaign centered on development, taxes, traffic and affordability, with organizing and voter-protection support from state and national Democrats.