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Vaughan retains mayor's seat as Outling concedes race

Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan. DAVID FORD/WFDD

Challenger Justin Outling has conceded to incumbent Nancy Vaughan in the race for Greensboro mayor. 

Outling, a city councilman in District 3, had been trying to unseat Vaughan, who has been mayor since 2013, and he came close to doing just that.

In complete but unofficial results from last week's election, Outling trailed by just over 400 votes. But that was enough to be outside of the 1 percent threshold needed to call for a recount.

In the days after the election, Outling declined to concede, saying he was waiting for mail-in ballots to be counted.

But on Monday, Outling changed course, posting on Facebook that given the small number of ballots left to be counted, it was apparent Vaughan would prevail. He thanked his volunteers and supporters for their work on the campaign.

The race featured a write-in campaign by businessman Chris Meadows that may have played a spoiler role in the race. Write-ins received 15 percent of the tally.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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