 However, he recaptured the seat in 2010, beating Skartados by a wafer thin margin of 15 votes.The results of the election took over one hundred days to certify, and when completed on February 16, 2011, was the last legislative race in the United States to be decided.The dramatic litigation over the recount occurred because the historic win eventually broke Speaker of the New York State Assembly Sheldon Silver's long-held Democratic supermajority in the Assembly Chamber by giving Assembly Republicans their 51st seat in the chamber, which would allow them to prevent the override of a gubernatorial veto.