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Election 2026

LaGrange County

Election 2026

General election, Tuesday 3 November 2026

Every date and address on this page was read off the body that issued it on . Sources are listed at the end, each with the day it was read.

What you can still do

  • Vote by mail: the application must be received by 11:59 p.m. on Thursday 22 October. A postmark does not count. Apply online at indianavoters.in.gov through your voter portal, or ask the Clerk. The ballot itself must reach county election officials by 6 p.m. on 3 November.
  • Vote early, in person, now. Early voting is on the first floor of the LaGrange County Courthouse, 105 N. Detroit St., LaGrange. Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday 24 October and Saturday 31 October, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. It ends at noon on Monday 2 November.
  • Vote on Tuesday 3 November, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. LaGrange County votes at seven polling places by precinct. It is not a vote center county, so a voter goes to the place for their own precinct.
  • Registration closed on 5 October. A person who was not registered by then cannot vote in this election.
  • Bloomfield I, II, III, IV and Clay: LaGrange County Fairgrounds, 1030 E 75 N, LaGrange
  • Clearspring and Eden: Topeka Library, 133 N Main St, Topeka
  • Greenfield and Springfield: Brighton Chapel Church, 5415 N SR 3, Howe
  • Johnson N and Johnson S: Messiah Lutheran Church, 2955 E 700 S, Wolcottville
  • Lima: Howe United Methodist Church, 511 S 3rd St, Howe
  • Milford E and Milford W: South Milford Church of Christ, 8030 E 600 S, South Milford
  • Newbury and Van Buren: Shipshewana Wolfe Building, 345 N Morton St, Shipshewana

Questions go to the county's Voter Registration office, 260-499-6392, or the Clerk's office, 260-499-6372.

See your own ballot

The state's site, indianavoters.in.gov, shows "Who's on my ballot". It finds a ballot in one of two ways: from your voter registration record (first name, last name, date of birth and county), or by county, precinct and split precinct. It does not search by street address. The same site shows your registration, your polling place and your absentee ballot.

This page does not reproduce anybody's ballot. Which township, council district, town and school board races a voter sees depends on where they live, and only the state's site shows the ballot for a voter's precinct.

What we checked: on 18 October we read the state's ballot for every precinct and split precinct it offers in LaGrange County, 25 in all across the 16 precincts, which reaches all eleven townships. Each of the 109 names on the county's candidate list below is on at least one of those ballots, no other name is on any of them, and the same two questions and three judges are on all 25. What we did not check: the sample ballot the county prints, so the order of names and the "vote for" lines are not taken from it.

What these offices do

Each office below is described from the Indiana Code, 2026 edition, and the Constitution of the State of Indiana, cited by section so it can be checked. Nothing here comes from a civics explainer.

Township trustee

Responsible for
The trustee is the township's executive. The Code lists eighteen duties, the last of them any other duty a statute prescribes. Among them: administer township assistance, provide fire protection, provide and maintain cemeteries, provide and maintain township parks and community centers, serve as fence viewer, destroy noxious weeds, keep the township's records open to the public, and receive and pay out township funds.
Controls
Township money and property. The trustee is by law the administrator of township assistance in the township, and runs its fire protection, cemeteries and parks.
Answers to
The voters of the township. The township board adopts the budget, may not appropriate more than the trustee's estimate, and approves or disallows the trustee's annual report. An applicant refused assistance can appeal to the county commissioners and from there to court.
Term
Four years, beginning 1 January after the election.

Township assistance

A resident who cannot meet a basic need applies to the trustee of the township they live in. The Code says the trustee shall extend township assistance when the applicant's own effort fails to provide one or more basic necessities. The kinds of help it names:

  • Utility bills: water, gas, electric, fuel oil, and coal, wood or propane for heating or cooking, including a bill up to 24 months overdue, to prevent a shutoff or restore service (IC 12-20-16-3).
  • Food (IC 12-20-16-5).
  • Medical care and prescribed medicine, when the person cannot get it through Medicaid, another program or insurance (IC 12-20-16-2).
  • A funeral and burial or cremation for a person who dies without means (IC 12-20-16-12).
  • Insulin (IC 12-20-16-14).
  • Shelter (IC 12-20-17-2), and temporary relief for a person who is sick, in need and without money (IC 12-20-17-3).

The trustee must act on a completed application within 72 hours, not counting weekends and legal holidays, and promptly in an emergency (IC 12-20-6-7). A refusal comes in writing with the reasons and the right to appeal (IC 12-20-6-8). An appeal goes to the county commissioners within 15 days, and the hearing must be held within 10 working days (IC 12-20-15-2, 12-20-15-6). Each trustee's written standards must be posted in every office where applications are taken (IC 12-20-5.5-1).

  • Bloomfield: 818 N Detroit St, LaGrange, (260) 463-3411
  • Clay: 127 W Spring St, LaGrange, (260) 463-2151
  • Clearspring: 2750 W 200 S, LaGrange, (260) 350-5839
  • Eden: 8770 W 650 S, Topeka, (260) 593-2939
  • Greenfield: 11775 E 600 N, Orland, (260) 463-6511
  • Johnson: 4935 E 580 S, Wolcottville, (260) 499-1901 on the county's list; (260) 854-4634 on Bloomfield Township's list.
  • Lima: 303 Williams St, Howe (mail: PO Box 73), (260) 562-2042
  • Milford: 4575 S 890 E, Wolcottville, (260) 351-9103
  • Newbury: 365 E Main St, Shipshewana (mail: PO Box 184), (260) 768-7330
  • Springfield: 9750 E 100 N, LaGrange, (260) 367-2362
  • Van Buren: 7010 N 900 W, Shipshewana, (260) 768-9181

Addresses and phone numbers are the county commissioners' list of township trustees, read 18 October 2026. For Johnson Township the two lists disagree, and both numbers are given. Office hours are not printed here: only one township publishes its own, and its two documents disagree.

IC 36-6-4-2 (election and term), IC 36-6-4-3 (duties), IC 12-20-5-1 (administrator of township assistance), IC 36-6-6-9 and 36-6-6-11 (the board's control of the report and the budget).

Township board

Responsible for
Three members, the township's legislative and fiscal body. It adopts the annual budget, levies the township's taxes and fixes the tax rate, approves the trustee's annual report, fixes the pay of township officers and employees, and adopts the township's assistance standards. It can begin proceedings to remove a trustee.
Controls
The township's budget and tax levy. It may approve or reject any part of the trustee's estimate, but may not appropriate more than the trustee estimated.
Answers to
The voters of the township. The state's Department of Local Government Finance certifies the township's levy.
Term
Four years, beginning 1 January after the election.

IC 36-6-6-2 (members and term), IC 36-6-6-9 (annual report), IC 36-6-6-10 (pay), IC 36-6-6-11 (budget and levy), IC 12-20-5.5-1 (assistance standards), IC 36-6-4.5-3 (removal).

County council

Responsible for
Seven members, the county's fiscal body. It fixes the county's tax rate, appropriates the money the county spends, and fixes the pay and the number of county officers, deputies and employees paid from county funds. It appoints two members of the county's property tax appeals board.
Controls
County spending. Money may be paid out of the county treasury only under an appropriation the council has made, except where a law says otherwise.
Answers to
The voters. Four members are elected from districts and three at large, in alternate elections; this year's list carries the four district seats.
Term
Four years, beginning 1 January after the election.

IC 36-2-3-2, 36-2-3-3 and 36-2-3-4 (members, districts, term), IC 36-2-5-2 and 36-2-5-3 (taxes, appropriations, pay), IC 6-1.1-28-1 (appeals board).

County commissioners

Responsible for
Three members, the county's executive. The board transacts the county's business: it approves claims against the county, maintains the courthouse, the jail and the county offices, draws the commissioner and council districts, and hears appeals from township assistance decisions.
Controls
The county's buildings and its business, within the money the council appropriates. It also chooses whether to sit as the drainage board or appoint one.
Answers to
The voters of the whole county. Each member must live in the district they represent, but in a county of LaGrange's size all three are elected countywide, and the District 1 race is on every one of the county's 25 ballots. A person aggrieved by a decision of the board may appeal it to court within 30 days.
Term
Four years, beginning 1 January after the election. One seat or two are elected at alternate elections; this year's list carries one.

IC 36-2-2-2, 36-2-2-3 and 36-2-2-5 (board, term, residence, countywide vote), IC 36-2-2-16 and 36-2-2-24 (claims and buildings), IC 36-2-2-27 (appeals to court), IC 12-20-15-1 (assistance appeals), IC 36-9-27-5 (drainage board).

County assessor

Responsible for
Countywide equalization of property assessments, the county's assessment computer system, certifying gross assessments to the auditor, and finding property left off the rolls. The assessor also sits on the county's property tax appeals board.
Controls
The assessment of property in the county.
Answers to
The voters. To serve, an assessor must hold a state assessor-appraiser certification: level two for a first term, level three for a later one.
Term
Four years, beginning 1 January after the election.

IC 36-2-15-2 (term and certification), IC 36-2-15-5 (duties), IC 6-1.1-28-1 (appeals board).

County auditor

Responsible for
The county's fiscal officer. The auditor is clerk to the commissioners and the council, keeps an account for every appropriation the council makes, and settles the claims against the county.
Controls
Payments out of the county treasury. Money is paid only on a warrant the auditor draws, and only if the council has appropriated it. Letting an appropriation be overdrawn on purpose is a crime.
Answers to
The voters. The Constitution limits an auditor to eight years in any twelve.
Term
Four years.

IC 36-2-9-2 (term, fiscal officer), IC 36-2-9-13 and 36-2-9-14 (appropriations and warrants), IC 36-2-9-15 (claims); Constitution, Article 6, Section 2.

County sheriff

Responsible for
Arrests people who commit an offense in the sheriff's view, keeps the peace, pursues and jails felons, serves the process of the courts and the commissioners, keeps order in the county's courts, and takes care of the county jail and the prisoners in it.
Controls
The county jail and its prisoners. The commissioners provide and maintain the building.
Answers to
The voters. The Constitution limits a sheriff to eight years in any twelve.
Term
Four years.

IC 36-2-13-2 (term), IC 36-2-13-5 (duties), IC 36-2-2-24 (the jail building); Constitution, Article 6, Section 2.

County surveyor

Responsible for
Keeps the county's legal survey record book of property line surveys. The surveyor is the technical authority on the county's regulated drains: surveys them, sets the standards for building and maintaining them, supervises the work and keeps their records. If a competent civil engineer, the surveyor plans and supervises the county's surveying and engineering work.
Controls
The technical side of the regulated drains. The surveyor sits on the drainage board without a vote.
Answers to
The voters. County engineering work is done under the direction of the commissioners.
Term
Four years.

IC 36-2-12-2 (term), IC 36-2-12-8 and 36-2-12-10 (engineering and the survey record), IC 36-9-27-5 and 36-9-27-29 (drains).

Prosecuting attorney

Responsible for
Conducts all prosecutions for felonies, misdemeanors and infractions in the 35th Judicial Circuit, which is LaGrange County.
Controls
Which criminal cases are brought in the county, in the name of the State of Indiana.
Answers to
The voters of the circuit. The prosecutor must be a lawyer admitted in Indiana and must live in the circuit.
Term
Four years, beginning 1 January after the election.

IC 33-33-44-1 (the 35th circuit), IC 33-39-1-2 and 33-39-1-5 (residence and duties); Constitution, Article 7, Section 16.

Judge of the LaGrange Superior Court

Responsible for
Presides over the LaGrange Superior Court, which has one judge and hears civil and criminal cases of every kind, and appeals from town courts.
Controls
The cases before the court. The judge appoints the court's bailiff and reporter.
Answers to
The voters of the county. The judge must live in the county and be a lawyer admitted in Indiana. Discipline and removal of judges belong to the Indiana Supreme Court.
Term
Six years, beginning 1 January after the election.

IC 33-33-44-2 and 33-33-44-3 (the court), IC 33-29-1-1.5, 33-29-1-3 and 33-29-1-5 (jurisdiction, term, staff); Constitution, Article 7, Section 4.

Town council

Responsible for
The town's legislative and fiscal body. It adopts the town's ordinances and resolutions, buys, holds and sells town property, and fixes the pay of its members, the clerk-treasurer and the town marshal. Its president is the town's executive.
Controls
The town's ordinances, property and budget. A town has the powers the statutes give it and the others it needs to run its affairs.
Answers to
The voters of the town. Council members must live in the town.
Term
Normally four years. Some towns have moved their elections by ordinance, which changes the term; why each town's seats are on this year's ballot was not established.

IC 36-5-2-2, 36-5-2-3, 36-5-2-7 and 36-5-2-9 (council, term, president, powers), IC 36-5-3-2 (pay), IC 36-1-3-4 (home rule); Constitution, Article 6, Section 6.

School board

Responsible for
The governing body of a school corporation. It manages the corporation's educational affairs and decides where its schools are, hires and dismisses its superintendent, principals and teachers and fixes their pay, buys, builds and sells its property, and adopts its budget.
Controls
The school corporation. The superintendent is its executive; the board is its fiscal body.
Answers to
The voters, where the corporation's plan provides for an elected board, as Lakeland's, Prairie Heights' and Westview's do. The size of each board and its districts are set in that plan, which is not in the Code.
Term
Four years. Each corporation's plan sets the day a member takes office.

IC 20-26-5-4 (powers), IC 20-23-4-29.1 and 20-23-4-30 (election and term), IC 36-1-2-6 (fiscal body).

Which races are contested

The county's list names 109 people who will be printed on a LaGrange County ballot, for 51 offices. For the 40 offices whose number of seats is fixed by the Indiana Code or printed on the state's ballot lookup:

  • 19 have more candidates than seats.
  • 21 have exactly as many candidates as seats.
  • 0 have fewer candidates than seats.

For the other 11, all town council or school board seats, the number of seats is set by a town's ordinance or a school corporation's plan, the state's lookup does not print it, and we have not read those documents, so we do not sort them. Each is listed below with its number of candidates.

Offices with nobody filed cannot be counted from a list of candidates, because an office nobody filed for does not appear on it. The county election board had to publish a legal notice of the offices to be filled in a newspaper by 13 October, and that notice would show them. The county does not say which newspaper, and the notice was not on the county's website when we looked on 18 October.

  • Secretary of State: 4 candidates, 1 seat
  • State Comptroller (Auditor of State): 3 candidates, 1 seat
  • Treasurer of State: 2 candidates, 1 seat
  • United States Representative, Third District: 2 candidates, 1 seat
  • State Representative, District 051: 2 candidates, 1 seat
  • Judge of the LaGrange Superior Court: 1 candidate, 1 seat
  • Prosecuting Attorney of LaGrange County, 35th Judicial Circuit: 1 candidate, 1 seat
  • LaGrange County Auditor: 1 candidate, 1 seat
  • LaGrange County Sheriff: 1 candidate, 1 seat
  • LaGrange County Surveyor: 1 candidate, 1 seat
  • LaGrange County Assessor: 1 candidate, 1 seat
  • LaGrange County Commissioner, District 1: 2 candidates, 1 seat
  • LaGrange County Council, District 1: 2 candidates, 1 seat
  • LaGrange County Council, District 2: 2 candidates, 1 seat
  • LaGrange County Council, District 3: 1 candidate, 1 seat
  • LaGrange County Council, District 4: 3 candidates, 1 seat
  • Bloomfield Township Trustee, LaGrange County: 2 candidates, 1 seat
  • Clay Township Trustee, LaGrange County: 1 candidate, 1 seat
  • Clearspring Township Trustee, LaGrange County: 2 candidates, 1 seat
  • Eden Township Trustee, LaGrange County: 1 candidate, 1 seat
  • Greenfield Township Trustee, LaGrange County: 1 candidate, 1 seat
  • Johnson Township Trustee, LaGrange County: 2 candidates, 1 seat
  • Lima Township Trustee, LaGrange County: 2 candidates, 1 seat
  • Milford Township Trustee, LaGrange County: 1 candidate, 1 seat
  • Newbury Township Trustee, LaGrange County: 1 candidate, 1 seat
  • Springfield Township Trustee, LaGrange County: 1 candidate, 1 seat
  • Van Buren Township Trustee, LaGrange County: 1 candidate, 1 seat
  • Bloomfield Township Board Member, LaGrange County: 6 candidates, 3 seats
  • Clay Township Board Member, LaGrange County: 3 candidates, 3 seats
  • Clearspring Township Board Member, LaGrange County: 4 candidates, 3 seats
  • Eden Township Board Member, LaGrange County: 3 candidates, 3 seats
  • Greenfield Township Board Member, LaGrange County: 4 candidates, 3 seats
  • Johnson Township Board Member, LaGrange County: 6 candidates, 3 seats
  • Lima Township Board Member, LaGrange County: 6 candidates, 3 seats
  • Milford Township Board Member, LaGrange County: 3 candidates, 3 seats
  • Newbury Township Board Member, LaGrange County: 3 candidates, 3 seats
  • Springfield Township Board Member, LaGrange County: 3 candidates, 3 seats
  • Van Buren Township Board Member, LaGrange County: 3 candidates, 3 seats
  • LaGrange Town Council Member, Ward 4: 2 candidates, 2 seats
  • LaGrange Town Council Member, Ward 5: 1 candidate, seats not established
  • Shipshewana Town Council Member, District 1: 1 candidate, seats not established
  • Shipshewana Town Council Member, District 2: 1 candidate, seats not established
  • Topeka Town Council, At Large: 1 candidate, seats not established
  • Wolcottville Town Council Member, At Large (LaGrange and Noble): 3 candidates, 2 seats
  • Lakeland School Board, District 1 (LaGrange & Noble): 2 candidates, seats not established
  • Lakeland School Board, District 2 (LaGrange & Noble): 1 candidate, seats not established
  • Lakeland School Board, District 4 (LaGrange & Noble): 1 candidate, seats not established
  • Prairie Heights School Board, Milford (LaGrange, Steuben): 4 candidates, seats not established
  • Prairie Heights School Board, Millgrove (LaGrange, Steuben): 2 candidates, seats not established
  • Westview School Board, Newbury: 1 candidate, seats not established
  • Westview School Board, Van Buren: 1 candidate, seats not established

The questions

Every Indiana ballot carries two proposed amendments to the state constitution. The General Assembly set their words, and the state's ballot lookup prints them the same way. They are reproduced here exactly. No local question is on any LaGrange County ballot.

Public Question #1, on bail

Currently, under the Constitution of the State of Indiana, a person charged with murder or treason is not entitled to be released on bail if the proof is evident or the presumption strong. Shall the Constitution of the State of Indiana be amended to provide that a person charged with an offense other than murder or treason is not entitled to bail if: (1) the proof is evident or the presumption strong; and (2) the state proves by clear and convincing evidence that no release conditions will reasonably protect the safety of any other person or the community. (This question concerns Article 1, Section 17 of the Constitution of the State of Indiana.)

Ballot wording: Senate Enrolled Act 3 (2026). Full text of the amendment as passed: Senate Joint Resolution 1 (2026).

Public Question #2, on where city and town court judges may live

Shall the Constitution of the State of Indiana be amended to permit the judge of a city or town court to reside in: (1) the county in which the court is located; or (2) the bordering county closest to the city or town in which the court is located? (This question concerns Article 6, Section 6 of the Constitution of the State of Indiana.)

Ballot wording: House Enrolled Act 1019 (2026). Full text of the amendment as passed: House Joint Resolution 1 (2025).

Judicial retention

Three appellate judges are on LaGrange County's ballot for retention: Judge Mary A. DeBoer and Judge Paul A. Felix of the Court of Appeals, and Judge Justin L. McAdam of the Indiana Tax Court. The ballot asks of each, "Shall Judge (name) be retained in office?" and the answer is yes or no.

A judge on a retention ballot runs against nobody. A majority of yes votes keeps the judge in office for ten more years, after which the question comes back. If a majority votes no, the judge's term ends, and the vacancy is filled the way appellate judges are chosen in Indiana: the state's Judicial Nominating Commission names three candidates and the Governor appoints one.

A fourth judge, Judge Dana J. Kenworthy of the Court of Appeals, Second District, is up for retention this year and is on none of LaGrange County's 25 ballots. The state's court page says judges named from the first three districts stand for retention only in their district, and the law puts LaGrange County in the Third.

The state publishes a page on the judges up for retention, with each judge's biography, video of oral arguments and a link to the judge's written opinions: in.gov/courts/retention. It also links a survey of lawyers by the Indiana State Bar Association, which is the bar association's and not the state's.

Constitution, Article 7, Section 11; IC 33-25-1-2 (the districts), IC 33-25-2-4 and 33-25-2-5 (rejection and the ballot wording), IC 33-26-2-3 and 33-24-2-1 (the Tax Court judge, voted on like a justice, by the whole state).

The candidates

Every name the county's list says will be printed on a LaGrange County ballot, by office, as the list prints it. A voter sees only the races for where they live.

Two names are in capitals because the county's list and the state's list both print them that way. We have not changed the case of any name.

Where a candidate has a campaign site of their own, it is linked. We searched for one for every candidate on 18 October. We found sites for 11 of the 13 federal and statewide candidates, and none for any of the 96 county, township, town and school board candidates. A candidate may still have a page our search did not reach, social media pages in particular.

These are the candidates' own pages as found on 18 October. Some have not been updated for this election.

A candidate the county's own pages name as holding a county office now is marked with that office: "holds this office now" where it is the office on the ballot, and the office named where it is a different one. The pages were read on 18 October: the County Commissioners, the County Council, the Auditor, Clerk, Coroner, Recorder, Sheriff, Surveyor, Treasurer, Assessor, Prosecuting Attorney and Superior Court, and the Township Trustees. Where the county prints a short form of a name, it is matched to the ballot's full form. Those pages name the holders of the county offices, the Superior Court judgeship and the eleven township trusteeships. They do not name township board members, town council members, school board members or state and federal officeholders, so an unmarked name in those races does not mean the candidate holds no office.

Declared write-in candidates are not listed here, because they are not printed on the ballot. Two have filed for offices on this county's ballot; the state's candidate list names them: Indiana Election Division, candidate information.

Secretary of State

State Comptroller (Auditor of State)

Treasurer of State

United States Representative, Third District

State Representative, District 051

Judge of the LaGrange Superior Court

  • Lisa M. Bowen-Slaven, Republican. Holds this office now

Prosecuting Attorney of LaGrange County, 35th Judicial Circuit

  • Travis J. Glick, Republican. Holds this office now

LaGrange County Auditor

  • Jamesi F. Lemon, Republican

LaGrange County Sheriff

  • Tracy Harker, Republican. Holds this office now

LaGrange County Surveyor

  • Zachary Lee Holsinger, Republican. Holds this office now

LaGrange County Assessor

  • Kim Fairchild, Republican. Holds this office now

LaGrange County Commissioner, District 1

  • Tom Swihart, Democratic
  • Jeffrey A. Campos, Republican. Currently the County Council member for District 1

LaGrange County Council, District 1

  • Mark Ulrich, Democratic
  • Terry Martin, Republican. Currently the County Commissioner for the North District

LaGrange County Council, District 2

  • Joseph Wanderlust, Libertarian
  • Lyle E. Miller, Republican

LaGrange County Council, District 3

  • Harold D. Gingerich, Republican. Holds this office now

LaGrange County Council, District 4

  • Jay Benak, Democratic
  • Cory W. Stewart, Independent
  • James R. Young, Republican. Holds this office now

Bloomfield Township Trustee, LaGrange County

  • Lori Riley, Democratic
  • William L. Pipher, Republican. Holds this office now

Clay Township Trustee, LaGrange County

  • Debbie L Muntz, Republican. Holds this office now

Clearspring Township Trustee, LaGrange County

  • Elizabeth Hostetler, Democratic
  • June Slaven, Republican

Eden Township Trustee, LaGrange County

  • Staci L. Smith, Republican. Holds this office now

Greenfield Township Trustee, LaGrange County

  • Peggy S Whitlock, Republican. Holds this office now

Johnson Township Trustee, LaGrange County

  • Eileen Papas, Democratic
  • Amy L McKowen, Republican. Holds this office now

Lima Township Trustee, LaGrange County

  • Helmuth Massat, Democratic
  • Terry J. Iannarelli, Republican. Holds this office now

Milford Township Trustee, LaGrange County

  • Bruce Bowman, Republican. Holds this office now

Newbury Township Trustee, LaGrange County

  • Dana D Martin, Republican

Springfield Township Trustee, LaGrange County

  • Sherri Johnston, Republican. Holds this office now

Van Buren Township Trustee, LaGrange County

  • Bruce Miller, Republican. Holds this office now

Bloomfield Township Board Member, LaGrange County

  • Michael D Clarkson, Democratic
  • Richard Crance, Democratic
  • Jeanie Park, Democratic
  • Craig Connelly, Republican
  • MacKenzie (Mack) Grobis, Republican
  • Patricia J. Merrifield, Republican

Clay Township Board Member, LaGrange County

  • Richard K Muntz, Republican
  • Melinda West, Republican
  • Richard E Yoder, Republican

Clearspring Township Board Member, LaGrange County

  • Becky Spencer, Democratic
  • John (J.J.) Egli, Republican
  • Steven W Schrock, Republican
  • Robert Lincoln Thompson, Republican

Eden Township Board Member, LaGrange County

  • Colleen E. Hostetler, Republican
  • Craig Mast, Republican
  • Tobey J Schwartz, Republican

Greenfield Township Board Member, LaGrange County

  • Cindy Swihart, Democratic
  • Miriam H. Carnahan, Republican
  • Beth Maskow, Republican
  • Cameron J. Moore, Republican

Johnson Township Board Member, LaGrange County

  • Thomas Duty, Democratic
  • Alesia Feiertag, Democratic
  • Patrick Kelly, Democratic
  • Rian McMaster, Republican
  • Jo An Van Wagner, Republican
  • J R Young, Republican

Lima Township Board Member, LaGrange County

  • Gary Bartunek, Democratic
  • Robin McLaughlin, Democratic
  • Stephan Scott-Welty, Democratic
  • Jennifer McBride, Republican
  • Adam C. Music, Republican
  • Jana S. Sturgill, Republican

Milford Township Board Member, LaGrange County

  • Roy R. Howe, Republican
  • Roy (RD) Wolheter, Republican
  • Danny L Young, Republican

Newbury Township Board Member, LaGrange County

  • Jerrald (Jerry) Hostetler, Republican
  • Steven R. Hostetler, Republican
  • Nicholas B. Wilson, Republican

Springfield Township Board Member, LaGrange County

  • James L Mireley, Republican
  • Debra Notestine, Republican
  • Daniel Prough, Republican

Van Buren Township Board Member, LaGrange County

  • John Hooley, Republican
  • Dennis L Neeley, Republican
  • Steven Raber, Republican

LaGrange Town Council Member, Ward 4

  • Kim Randol, Democratic
  • Josh Shotzman, Republican

LaGrange Town Council Member, Ward 5

  • Edna Bowser, Democratic

Shipshewana Town Council Member, District 1

  • Timothy J. Moon, Republican

Shipshewana Town Council Member, District 2

  • Nicholas Engle, Independent

Topeka Town Council, At Large

  • Eric Dunithan, Republican

Wolcottville Town Council Member, At Large (LaGrange and Noble)

  • Jeffrey Sorg, Democratic
  • Madaline Hart, Republican
  • Jerry J Raber, Republican

Lakeland School Board, District 1 (LaGrange & Noble)

  • Kari Cossairt, no party printed
  • Charles (Bill) Park, Republican

Lakeland School Board, District 2 (LaGrange & Noble)

  • Robert Bond, Republican

Lakeland School Board, District 4 (LaGrange & Noble)

  • Ben Brown, Republican

Prairie Heights School Board, Milford (LaGrange, Steuben)

  • William (Bill) Morr, no party printed
  • Steven M. Ceaglske, Republican
  • Jordan R. Henschen, Republican
  • Kenneth C. (Ken) Sheets, Republican

Prairie Heights School Board, Millgrove (LaGrange, Steuben)

  • JESSLYN D. SENECAL, no party printed
  • HARMONEE LAURA MCCREA, Republican

Westview School Board, Newbury

  • Keith D. Lambright, Republican

Westview School Board, Van Buren

  • Chadwick E Bender, Independent

Campaign finance reports

Candidates for county office, judge and prosecuting attorney file campaign finance reports with the LaGrange County Election Board. The Clerk is the board's secretary. Candidates for statewide office and the legislature file with the Indiana Election Division instead.

Most names on this ballot are township, town and school board candidates, and a different rule can apply to them. A school board candidate files nothing until raising or spending more than $500, whatever the seat pays (IC 3-9-1-5.5). The same holds for a candidate for any other local office that pays less than $5,000 a year. Every township in the county paid its trustee more than $5,000 in 2025, by the townships' own annual reports, so trustee candidates file with the LaGrange County Election Board, as county candidates do. Township and town candidates who do file, file there too, and a school board candidate whose district reaches into another county files in each county. This page has not established what a township board or town council seat here pays; if it is under $5,000, the $500 rule applies to its candidates too. A candidate under that rule who stays under $500 files no report at all, so finding none on file does not by itself mean a rule was broken.

The reports are public. The board must make each one available for anyone to inspect and copy by the end of the second business day after it arrives (IC 3-9-4-5). To read a local candidate's reports, ask at the Clerk's office in the Courthouse, 105 N. Detroit St., LaGrange, 260-499-6372, weekdays 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Copies are at the reader's expense. The reports filed with the state, which on this ballot include the statewide and State Representative candidates', can be searched at campaignfinance.in.gov.

Where to see them work

Each meeting below is from the body's own page or notice. Where a body publishes no regular schedule, that is said, and nothing is guessed from past agendas.

  • LaGrange County Board of Commissioners. Monday at 8:30 a.m. The county calendar lists October 19, November 2, November 16, December 7, December 21 and December 28, 2026. County Office Building, 114 W Michigan St, LaGrange. Source.
  • LaGrange County Council. The council’s page states no regular schedule, and no October agenda was posted. Its September meeting was Monday, September 14, at 8:30 a.m. County Office Building, 114 W Michigan St, LaGrange. Source.
  • Town of LaGrange Town Council. First and third Mondays at 6 p.m.; the following Tuesday when the Monday is a holiday. Town Hall, 1201 N Townline Rd, LaGrange. Source.
  • Town of Shipshewana Town Council. The town’s pages state no regular schedule. Its latest posted agenda was for Wednesday, September 23, at 5 p.m. Town Hall, Roger D. Yoder Council Room, 345 N Morton St, Shipshewana. Source.
  • Town of Topeka Town Council. Second and fourth Mondays at 4 p.m. Town Hall, 124 E Lake St, Topeka. Source.
  • Town of Wolcottville Town Council. First Tuesday of the month. The town’s schedule page says 6 p.m.; its own minutes of January 6, 2026 moved 2026 meetings to 4 p.m., and set a year-end meeting for December 15 at 10 a.m. Town Hall, 103 W Myers St, Wolcottville. Source.
  • Lakeland School Corporation Board of School Trustees. Regular meetings at 6:30 p.m. on October 28, November 11 and December 9, 2026, on the board’s 2026 calendar. Lakeland School Corporation Office, 0825 E 075 N, LaGrange. Source.
  • Prairie Heights Community School Corporation Board of Education. At 5 p.m. on November 16 and December 21, 2026, on the board’s 2026 list. Administration Office, 0305 S 1150 E, LaGrange. Source.
  • Westview School Corporation Board of School Trustees. Not read. The corporation’s website would not load for us on October 18; it asks a browser to pass a check first. Source.

What this page is not

This page endorses nobody and takes no position on any candidate or question. It does not analyse any candidate or question. It says what the offices do under the law, who filed for them, and how to vote.

Sources

Every deadline is checked again against the Indiana Election Division and the county clerk before 3 November.

The image shown when this page is shared: Map of La Grange County, Indiana, Illustrated Atlas and Columbian Souvenir of LaGrange County, Indiana, 1893, scan leaf 21, Internet Archive historicalatlaslagr00dura. Printed with north to the left; turned a quarter turn clockwise here so north is at the top. Public domain.

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