Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.

Sentence 1:Patteson polled 873 votes ( 10.6 percent ) . Sentence 2:Angelo hence won by 150 votes of the some 8,200 ballots cast .
hence