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ST. JOSEPH COUNTY ELECTION RECORD · AS USED FOR THE CURRENT SEATS
What it is: the record class on which every "current holder" line in the Government leg stands, and the class whose two tiers the build keeps separate. The first tier is the county Clerk's own publication: the official May 5, 2026 primary precinct summary, reached through the county's DocumentCenter and read first-hand — the document that settles, against the candidate's own filing and the press's shorthand, that Council President Gene Reese lost the Ward 2 Republican primary to Rick Coffman, and with it the dated end (December 31, 2026) of a council service running since January 1990. The second tier is the carrier press for the November 2026 general election — WNDU, the St. Joe Current, the South Bend Tribune — on which the build prints the November outcomes as reported, unofficial until certification. Between the tiers stands the build's standing settler for three towns at once: the Clerk's certified November precinct summary, not yet posted when these passes ran, which on its posting converts the carrier-grade lines to Clerk-grade in a single update motion (for Walkerton: GAP-WKGOV-1, the Ward 2 general result). Election facts are only ever as strong as their tier, and the build's government lines print their tier with them.
Principal sources: St. Joseph County Clerk, official primary precinct summary, May 2026 (DocumentCenter; read first-hand); WNDU, St. Joe Current and South Bend Tribune November 2026 returns coverage as cited in the Government and Current-Today legs.