Fewer than 200 votes separated Shannon Nordstrom and Luke McCarthy in the race to represent Ward 2 on the Las Vegas City Council as of Sunday.

But it was Nordstrom, a former Las Vegas Municipal Court judge, who declared victory in one of Clark County’s closest races in a Facebook post on Saturday.

As of Sunday, more than 32,000 votes have been counted in the race for Ward 2, which is home to more than 116,000 Las Vegans and encompasses parts of the west valley, including Summerlin.

Nordstrom told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that McCarthy, a longtime Clark County firefighter, called her to concede the race on Friday evening. McCarthy even delivered her a bottle of champagne to celebrate, she said.

“I appreciated his phone call.…