Initial Union County Tallies Show Sheriff Race, Commissioner and City Contests

Initial, unofficial tallies from Union County, Pennsylvania show a commanding result in the sheriff’s race: Scott Hahn (R) received 7,858 votes, or 96.87% of the 8,112 votes cast in that contest, with write-ins totaling 254 votes, or 3.13%, according to an Election Summary Report stamped Unofficial Date 11/6/2025 at 11:47:38 AM EST. The report header lists 10,327 total ballots and indicates 26 of 26 precincts reporting for countywide contests.

The same Union County, PA summary lists two statewide judicial contests with full precinct reporting. For judge of the Superior Court, Maria Battista (R) led Brandon Neuman (D) 5,384 to 4,609, a 52.88% to 45.27% split in a race with 10,181 total votes. For judge of the Commonwealth Court, Matt Wolford (R) received 5,505 votes to Stella Tsai’s (D) 4,648, a 54.16% to 45.73% margin with 10,165 total votes; both judicial blocks show 26 of 26 precincts reporting.

Several municipal and precinct-level results appear in the excerpted pages. In Hartley, inspector of election Pam Hackenburg (R) drew 141 votes, or 56.85%, with 107 write-ins for a 248-vote total. In East Buffalo precincts, inspector Justin Rummel (D) earned 441 votes, 95.45% of 462 total, while judge of election Josh Dearing (D) in E Buffalo 4 received 184 votes, 99.46% of 185 total. Kelly 1 showed no filed candidates for both inspector and judge of election; write-ins accounted for 20 votes for inspector and 15 votes for judge. The excerpt also includes vote blocks showing Cindy Potoeski (D) with 341 votes, 97.15% of a 351-vote total, and a separate block listing James E. Maneval (D) 384 and Sherry Rowe (R) 247 in a 633-vote total; those two blocks in the supplied excerpt do not include the office labels adjacent to the tallies and require the full county PDF to match candidate names to specific municipal offices.

A separate update published by Elkhorn Media Group on Feb. 23, 2026 is cited in available notes as having “included tallies for countywide races and municipal contests” and as having highlighted the sheriff’s race, but the snippet provided here is truncated and does not specify which Union County its story covered or reproduce Elkhorn’s detailed tallies. The county Election Summary Report cited above is explicitly labeled Union County, PA and contains the Scott Hahn sheriff result and the judicial totals noted here.

Context and a caution about jurisdiction are essential: an excerpt from an encyclopedia page included with the material names county officials and municipalities that are located in Union County, New Jersey. That excerpt lists Chair Kimberly Palmieri-Mouded (D, Westfield, 2027), County Clerk Joanne Rajoppi (D, Westfield, 2025) and Sheriff Peter Corvelli (D, Kenilworth, 2026), and includes historical partisan vote totals such as 2024 totals showing Republicans 79,183 (35.56%) and Democrats 138,186 (62.06%). Those New Jersey names and figures are distinct from the Union County, Pennsylvania election summary and should not be conflated.

Data caveats in the excerpted Union County, PA file are explicit: the report is labeled “Unofficial,” the header shows Registered Voters as 0 - N/A, and several precinct-level entries in the supplied pages are truncated or missing office labels. To confirm final, certified results, obtain the county’s full Election Summary Report and the complete Elkhorn Media Group update for Feb. 23, 2026; the tallies presented here reflect the specific lines in the supplied unofficial excerpt and the separate encyclopedia excerpt and do not combine the two distinct Union County jurisdictions.