Representative-elect John Driscoll (D-Spokane) has finally won the race for the 6th Legislative District, position 2, exactly one month after election day.

Spokane County elections officials have announced that, after a mandatory hand recount required from an initial margin of victory of less than 0.25 percent, Driscoll remains ahead of Rep. John Ahern (R-Spokane), though the vote counted changed slightly from the original tally.

When election results were certified in late November, Driscoll led Ahern by 74 votes, and after the recount the official margin dropped slightly to 72, with Driscoll totaling 35,106 votes to Ahern's 35,034.

Driscoll will join a fellow challenger in the decidedly swing 6th District, Rep.-elect Kevin Parker (R-Spokane) as a freshman Representative in Olympia this January.

 "I am very pleased," Driscoll told PolitickerWA.com of the official ruling on his race in his favor. "I'm humbled and honored to be here. I got in on a very narrow margin and what that tells me is I've got a lot of work to do for my district, and I am ready for it."