{"id":381363,"date":"2026-08-26T05:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T05:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381363\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T05:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T05:30:12","slug":"leon-county-certifies-primary-results-derzypolski-holds-lead-after-recount-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381363\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon County certifies primary results; Derzypolski holds lead after recount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. &#8212; Leon County\u2019s Canvassing Board has certified the official results of the 2026 Primary Election after completing a manual recount in a closely watched Tallahassee City Commission race.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, August 24, the Leon County Canvassing Board completed the manual recount of the City Commission, Seat 3 race and certified the official results of the 2026 Primary Election. The recount results are posted online at <a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.leonvotes.gov%2FPortals%2F0%2FFiles%2FReports%2FElection%2520Results%2F26Primary%2FResults%2FElectionSummaryReport_Groups_Recount.pdf%3Ffbclid%3DIwcGRvZgFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFLRkNUd1dFaUNVSVlOeVlDc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHhXRrLubWF4GKToHshMHb9AN4K_zo7bcSnxk5lw9pTda8aKxhBYduRZ1-RD__aem__WjMCGnsQgzafMff8NX_fg&amp;h=AUBAKsDWjjdITlrotUm4nVVIvB3f4QlVzXnUdLDGddgt9WNDXvy3exlf4auyC4SXwnoXYCFwvl3OR8PMiL14qVP9hY5UPFYq4wXJOlrQ3vs_vfr-IFiqS0u0riKNRG1T2rYf395fk091Zw&amp;__tn__=-UK-R&amp;c[0]=AUCbBIWn9uOL3UlOUNiqUNOXydnys14K9YEnrs5Hs-6OmxP4_sAp-OTPl5PWpI5VwuF3oYIE-217k2-7tTrazt4wYaQoRzwoBY5YP1RJ3_-6_I8GAfhhZPujAnNoTylaRHvtbEXXJQvpIvPE-smESgNQyuSP422Rzu3y2Y1vHJm95ZPB34NgRmqZoC5ZHenQ3k4KYBpQbQKvJijo3HuLbaRd2A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.leonvotes.gov\/&#8230;\/ElectionSummaryReport<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Following the recount, Tom Derzypolski picked up an additional vote and remained 15 votes ahead of Talethia O. Edwards. Derzypolski will now face P.J. Perez in the November runoff election.<\/p>\n<p>The Canvassing Board also completed all remaining business for the 2026 Primary Election on August 24. As a result, the Canvassing Board meeting scheduled for Tuesday, August 25, was canceled.<\/p>\n<p>The board\u2019s next scheduled meeting is set for 4 p.m. Wednesday, October 7, to review the Logic and Accuracy test results for the 2026 General Election.<\/p>\n<p>ElectionSummaryReport_Groups_RecountPDF previewPreview PDF<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"PdfEmbed_downloadLink__tZFvP\" href=\"https:\/\/fox49.tv\/resources\/pdf\/4fb13b9c-0f2f-44ec-9555-1863a1665354-ElectionSummaryReport_Groups_Recount.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">View PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. &#8212; Leon County\u2019s Canvassing Board has certified the official results of the 2026 Primary Election after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-381363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}