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No winner declared; the settler posts on or after 16 November 2026
Nothing in this article is a certified result, because no certified result yet exists to print.Every figure below is therefore unofficial and labelled. The town itself had no seat on the ballot, re-verified against the Tribune's complete county candidate list of 30 October 2026, which carries town races for New Carlisle, North Liberty, Roseland and Walkerton and no Lakeville race. The township races touching the town stand thus. For trustee, Kelly Carrico stood as the sole candidate — the Tribune's list prints her under its uncontested races, and the Clerk's official May 2026 primary summary, read first-hand, corroborates her primary at 100 per cent in the Union precincts reached (53 and 54 votes); she prints as the uncontested candidate, with certification pending. For the township board, the field verified at first hand is Russell King (Democrat) against Harold Saunders, George Schafer and Ryan Schafer (Republicans) — and the general-election result was not reached in any carrier: the race is absent from the county results aggregator read whole, and no Union Township figures stand in the Tribune's reachable results coverage. No winners are declared. The May primary behind that field now stands verified against the Clerk's official primary summary rather than the press alone: in Union Precinct 1 the Republican board vote ran Saunders 65, G. Schafer 59, R. Schafer 55, Jimenez 32; in Precinct 2, R. Schafer 60, G. Schafer 57, Saunders 53, Jimenez 34; King took the Democratic vote unopposed — consistent with the banked county totals once the third precinct is added. The LaVille school seat for the town's ground carries two unofficial county-share figures that do not reconcile, printed whole: the results aggregator's St. Joseph County share — headed expressly as that share — runs Sherman 986 (56.6 per cent), Balmer 757 (43.4 per cent); a Marshall County radio report prints Sherman 51.59 per cent, Balmer 48.41 per cent, with no counts and its geographic scope unstated. The two are not combinable on the evidence reached, no carrier reached states a corporation-wide total, and no winner is declared; the settlers are the two counties' certified records combined. (The same radio report names a "Union Township Board" of other people entirely — Marshall County's Union Township, a different township, whose officers must not be imported here.) The transitions, when certification lands, run on the offices' own course: the 2026 township winners serve 1 January 2027 to 31 December 2030, the incumbents holding to 31 December 2026, and the next township election falls in November 2030. The town's own next election is dated at state-record strength from the Secretary of State's official 2027 calendar: Tuesday 2 November 2027, the municipal election — printed with its caveat whole, that an Indiana town may by ordinance move its elections to even-numbered years and no Lakeville ordinance of that kind was found or reached; the calendar's small-town convention deadlines are context for towns under 3,500 generally and are not asserted of Lakeville, whose nominating practice was not verified.