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Arnold will face Harris for Indiana Senate seat
May 08, 2012|By KEVIN ALLEN - Follow me @KevinAllenSBT | South Bend Tribune

There will be five state representatives and four state senators who represent portions of St. Joseph County in the next Indiana General Assembly.

Eight of those nine seats are up for grabs in this year's elections, but they produced just four primary contests for voters to decide Tuesday.

Two of those competitive primaries were for the District 8 seat in the Indiana Senate.

With 93 percent of precincts reporting in the Democratic primary, incumbent Sen. Jim Arnold, of LaPorte, had garnered 69 percent of 6,848 votes against Maxine Spenner, also of LaPorte.

Eric Harris, of South Bend, appeared to be the winner over LaPorte resident Austin Griffin in the Republican primary. Harris had 52 percent of 7,712 votes with 93 percent of precincts reporting.

Arnold, a former LaPorte County sheriff, has been a state senator since 2007. He will face Harris, who is an admissions adviser at Indiana University South Bend, in the general election in November.