A recount held on Monday for the District 121 State House race in Cape Elizabeth failed to overturn Election Day results.

The original count gave Democrat Cynthia Dill the race in a 2,432 – 2,256 vote. Republican Jennifer Duddy requested a recount on the race after hearing about a mistake on vote counting in Cape. The close race inched closer with the recount, but still gave Dill the victory with a 2,345-2,201 final tally.

“It was exciting to win the first time and to win the second time,” said Dill, who was present for the recount in Augusta. She said she was glad the recount was what April Cohen-Tracy, the Cape town clerk, estimated it would be, because it gave her confidence in the town’s voting system.

During the vote count, 241 write-in ballots were possibly counted twice, once by machine and once by hand, said Cohen-Tracy. A ballot is normally counted electronically, but a machine cannot recognize a write-in candidate. Only the write-in races are supposed to be hand counted, but all the races on the write-in ballots may have been hand counted as well, she said.

For the District 121 race, a total of 92 write-in and blank ballots were recounted by the Secretary of State’s office.

Duddy was unavailable for comment by Current deadline Tuesday morning, but said last Thursday she did not expect a change in the results, but wanted an accurate final tally. Duddy had to pay $500 for the recount because the voting margin between the two candidates was more than 2 percent.