4 TIMES IN HISTORY WHEN ONE VOTE MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE

If you think that one vote doesn’t make a difference then you couldn’t be more wrong. There have been many examples in history where everything came down to that one vote. Here are some of the most popular ones when one vote turned the tables.

1. C. P. Joshi; during 2008, Rajasthan Assembly Elections, he lost to his opponent Kalyan Singh Chouhan by a count of 62,216 to 62,215. He was one of the Chief Ministerial candidates. The senior leader had a great chance of becoming the Chief Minister of the state if he had won the elections. Not only did he lose by just one vote but surprisingly, it was his own mother, wife, and the driver who reportedly didn’t turn up to vote on the polling day.

2. Conservative Henry Duke; he maintained his seat in the House of Commons table by getting 4777 to his opponent’s 4776. In the long history of Britain, it is still the only significant election which had such a low margin of victory. Initially, it was St. Maur who had won by four-vote. But later, this result was challenged and when the final results were declared Henry Duke had defeated his opponent by a single vote.

3. Rutherford B. Hayes; 1876, it was one vote that ultimately made him the 19th president of the United States. The 1876 presidential elections were fought between Hayes and Tilden. Tilden had comfortably won the popular vote, by a healthy margin of 250,000. The tables turned when the electoral votes were counted. Hayes managed to receive 185 electoral votes, while Tilden could only manage 184.

4. Randall Luthi and Larry Call; in 1994, both, Republican Randall Luthi, and Independent Larry Call finished with 1,941 votes. Later, a ping pong ball was drawn out of cowboy hat to determine the winner. The 1994 elections for the Wyoming’s House of Representatives seat was perhaps one of the most memorable electoral battles of recent times. In this election, both Luthi and his opponent received the same number of votes. This led the then Governor Mike Sullivan to settle the problem in a quite unheard way. Well, Luthi made most of his luck and later went on to become the speaker of the House.

So, next time somebody gives you this excuse just tell them about these people. It might just change their mind.