For less than 36 hours, 19-year-old Kurtis Coombs was Canada's youngest mayor ever, having won a place at the helm of Paradise, Nfld., by a mere three votes. But a recount and a name-drawing later ...

Age of Kurtis Coombs, the youngest mayor in Canada: 19. Votes by which Coombs led at one point on election night: 51. Final number of votes cast for Coombs: 1821.

Kurtis Coombs, who narrowly lost a teenage bid to become mayor of Paradise in 2009, has made an 11th-hour bid to win the race this year. Coombs, 23, filed nomination papers shortly before Thursday ...