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As of 11 November 2026 · 2026 results unofficial
The town's commissioner district changes hands on 1 January 2027. The Board of Commissioners as seated: District 1, Carl H. Baxmeyer (R), President; District 2, Rafael Morton (D); District 3, Anthony "Tony" Hazen (R), Vice President — on the county's February 2025 GIS commissioner boundary map and the board's agenda of 26 August 2025. Which district holds Olive Township prints with its caution stated: the South Bend Tribune, in December 2025, states flatly that "Baxmeyer, whose District 1 includes New Carlisle"; against that flat statement stand the town's own minutes of 2 November 2021, recording a redistricting proposal "that would make us District 1, currently held by Andy Kostielney, basically flip-flopping with Derek Dieter" — that is, before that redistricting the town sat in Dieter's district — and the GIS map's text layer does not resolve township to district. The formal settler is the county GIS commissioner-district map read visually, or the precinct-to-district list. Only District 1 stood for election in 2026, and on the unofficial returns of 3 November, Bill Redman (D) defeated Baxmeyer 16,735 (58.4 percent) to 11,924 (41.6) — figures built from the Clerk's precinct summary and carried alike by the county's results coverage and WNDU. Redman, the term-limited incumbent sheriff, takes the seat in January 2027; Baxmeyer is the November 2026 holder, and the board flips to a 2–1 Democratic margin with the seating. The county council district containing Olive Township was not settled — District I, once a candidate, is Osceola and Mishawaka on its holder's own 2024 statement, not Olive — and it stands as a named gap, settler the county's October 2025 council boundaries map read visually or the GIS precinct list. For the rest of the county, the November transitions print at pointer size: Sheriff, Scott Ruszkowski (D), unofficially 47,951 to 28,674 over Rod Laureys (R); Clerk of the Circuit Court, Stephanie Ball (D) over incumbent Amy Rolfes (R), 43,737 to 32,422; Assessor, Victor Cummings (D); Auditor, Autumn Kaylor (D); Prosecutor, Amy Cressy (D) — each a winner, not a holder, until January. The council itself flips from a 5–4 Republican margin to 7–2 Democratic on the unofficial returns. One reference-list conflict is flagged rather than used: the town's reference article lists State Senate District 8 for this ground, against the 2026 District 11 Senate race run in the area — the article's district list reads stale and is not relied on.