Mayfield Heights Councilman Retains Seat After Recount

Councilman was declared the winner of the race to serve the remaining two years of the late Councilman David Sasak's term.

A recount by the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections had Monaco with 2,368 votes, 18 more than the 2,350 cast for . Those were the same numbers in official results certified by the board on Nov. 29.

An automatic recount was performed because less than 0.5 percentage points separated the candidates – Monaco had 50.19 percent of the vote and DeJohn had 49.81.

Monaco was appointed to council in August. He is building director for Pepper Pike and had been a building inspector for Mayfield Heights.