The final results of an automatic recount for this year’s Boulder’s City Council race confirmed that climate advocate Ryan Schuchard has won the fourth and final open council seat.

Schuchard will join fellow Councilmember-elects Tina Marquis and Taishya Adams at the dais for their first-ever council meeting on Thursday evening. Incumbent Councilmember Tara Winer, who won reelection this year, will begin her second term in office.

The recount results come after an incredibly close council election — four seats were available on City Council this year, and the final unofficial results showed Schuchard in fourth place, only 47 votes ahead of fifth-place candidate Terri Brncic.

In Boulder County, an automatic recount is triggered when the margin of votes between the candidate who won with the fewest votes and the candidate who lost with the most votes — in this case, Schuchard and Brncic — is within 0.5% of the total votes for the candidate who won with the fewest votes. The recount results showed Schuchard winning over Brncic by 46 votes, a one-vote difference.

Although the recount was unlikely to flip the results of the council race, Schuchard’s win was finally sealed when the recount was complete.

Reached for comment Wednesday afternoon, Schuchard said he’s ready for his first meeting and anxious to start in his new role as a councilmember.

“I’m really grateful for the work of all the staff and volunteers that have put this together. The team has been so diligent in ensuring we have trustworthy and transparent results,” Schuchard said. “There are a lot of exciting things on the agenda tomorrow and coming up. I’m really looking forward to getting started.”

The newly elected councilmembers and mayor will be sworn in at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Penfield Tate II Municipal Building, 1777 Broadway. At 6 p.m., the new council will convene at the same location for its first meeting.