Name: Rich Gillespie wins the 2010 Charlevoix County commissioner primary
Start: 2010-08-03
End: 2010-08-03
Location: Beaver Island

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Event

Date: 2010-08-03
Kind: Election
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: governancegovernment
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

Rich Gillespie won the August 3, 2010 Republican primary for Charlevoix County Commission by 570–446. The issue also reports Beaver Island township races and successful local roads, landfill, airport, fire, operations, library, and health center measures.

Evidence limits

This is a primary-election report, not the general-election result or certified canvass.

Sources

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Sources

Beaver Island Forum, "Gillespie wins primary," August 4–5, 2010.
Community and candidate posts report Rich Gillespie’s primary victory and quote his response; a later post repeats an unverified township turnout percentage. The Beacon’s reported county totals remain the stronger held election account, and neither source is treated as a certified canvass.
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Beaver Beacon, August 2010, "Gillespie Wins Big!"
Reports Gillespie's 570–446 county primary win, his Beaver Island margins, and passage of St. James roads, landfill, airport, fire, operations, library, and health-center measures. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, August 2010, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the election report.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Rich Gillespie wins the 2010 Charlevoix County commissioner primary”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-gillespie-primary-election-2010/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, "Gillespie wins primary," August 4–5, 2010. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

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