WARWICK — David Bennett, who apparently lost his bid for the Democratic nomination for Senate by just 11 votes, has requested a recount and the Board of Elections has scheduled one for Monday.

When the polls closed on Tuesday the tally showed Bennett with 847 votes and Erin P. Lynch, the party-endorsed candidate, with 858 votes for the District 31 seat from which four-decade incumbent Democrat John C. Revens Jr. is stepping down.

The recount will decide whether political newcomers Bennett or Lynch, a lawyer, will face Republican Thomas M. Madden in November. Madden has run for the seat before.

Regardless of the outcome, Bennett, a nurse at Butler Hospital, said in a statement this week, he considers his first-time bid for elective office a success.

“… [O]ur grass-roots campaign has always been about strengthening the voice of the working people in Warwick,” he said.

Lynch, who has a local law practice, said yesterday that Bennett’s call for a recount was reasonable. “It’s so close that I understand,” she said. “I think we all just want to get a certified answer … And I am hopeful that I do get to move on to the general election.”

Lynch chalked up the close vote to hard work by both camps. “We’ve both spent so much time the past couple of months,” she said. “We were able to run vigorous campaigns and maintain our congeniality and civility.”

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