A special Vaughan city council meeting got back to business Wednesday after shouting crowds disrupted a vote on whether to order a recount in the city's tight mayoral race.

Councillors unanimously voted in support of a machine recount of completed ballots after outgoing Mayor Michael Di Biase disputed his 90-vote loss to Linda Jackson in the Nov. 13 municipal election.

Twenty minutes into the meeting, it was temporarily adjourned when police and security officers were called to Vaughan City Hall to control audience members after a number of outbursts.

Those shouting said they felt city councillors were in a conflict of interest because they had supported Di Biase in his campaign for re-election.

Nearly an hour later, councillors returned to the chambers to vote.

Di Biase did not attend the special council meeting. Jackson, a councillor, was there, but excused herself during the vote, saying she was in a conflict of interest.

No date has been set for the recount, but councillors hope to have it done before the end of the month.

The mayoral race in the city north of Toronto has been a bitter one between Di Biase and Jackson, daughter of late former mayor Lorna Jackson.