The Region - News from Dec. 2, 1986

David D. Vest, who asked for a recount after his campaign fell 89,000 votes short of victory, picked up one vote in the first day of ballot counting. So did his opponent, incumbent Rep. William E. Dannemeyer (R-Fullerton). “I would have loved to have walked out of there with a victory today,” Vest said, “but I realized the chances of that were very dim.” Vest lost the Nov. 4 election by a 3-1 margin--131,603 to 42,377--but some of his backers doubted Dannemeyer’s wide margin of victory in Villa Park and part of Anaheim. The doubters, whom Vest declined to name, persuaded him to request a recount, beginning in those precincts. Based on first-day results, it seems “that Mr. Dannemeyer’s 90,000-vote plurality will hold,” Orange County Registrar of Voters A.E. Olson predicted.