At the end of the night, everybody agreed that Scott Murphy (D) was just ahead of James Tedisco by 85 votes. Since, there have been a number of contradictory reports–all maintaining that the lead is dwindling–but with frequently changing leads.

Scorecard, Politico’s election blog, has changing numbers for instance. First, it was down to 25, but then citing a “high-level GOP” source, the lead had shrank to 13 votes–but then acknowledged the official AP count as Murphy leading Tedisco by 25. The same article says an anonymous Democrat pegs the magic number at 30.

Now, it’s only a couple votes either way, but obviously each vote is going to count. For now, based on consensus (several political blogs, including Taegan Goddard at CQ and First Read) are citing the Albany Times-Union’s number:

25.