Unalaska, AK – Shirley Marquardt has officially been reelected mayor of Unalaska.

After local elections officials counted the 46 outstanding absentee and question ballots, Marquardt defeated Shannon Morrison by five votes, 283 to 278. Katherine McGlashan came in third with 138 votes. Of the newly counted ballots, 20 went to Morrison, 18 to Marquardt and eight to McGlashan.

Those numbers made the election incredibly close. If just three people who cast their ballots for Marquardt had voted differently, it would've been enough to either win the race for Morrison or send the election to a runoff between Marquardt and Morrison. A runoff is triggered when neither candidate gets more than 40 percent of the vote; as it stands now, Marquardt received 40.3 percent.

Marquardt wasn't available for comment this afternoon.

Morrison said that even though the margin is a slim one, he's not planning on challenging the vote count. He said that even though he lost, he hopes the mayor will take into consideration what the voters who cast their ballot for him were trying to say.

"Hopefully the mayor will look at that, and evaluate what those folks want." he said "They want more outward communication, they want the honesty level to come back into that mayor's seat."

The absentee and question ballots added 29 votes to Roger Rowland's already safe margin in the race for City Council Seat C. Valarie Lemas picked up 15 more votes and Joanna Aldridge, who had dropped out of the race, got two.

The new vote count also didn't change anything in the race for Seat D. David Gregory picked up 20 more votes, Randall Baker got 19, Kris Flanagan got 7 and Chris Bobbitt got 5. That election will go to a runoff between Baker and Gregory.

City Council will certify the results of the election at its meeting on Tuesday, where it will also pick the date of the runoff for Seat D.