The exact page text, read by your browser's voice.
Election of November 3, 2026 · transition effective January 1, 2027
The moved anchor: Osceola votes in St. Joseph County Commissioner District 1, and the seat changed parties' hands on November 3, 2026. The Clerk's precinct summary, complete at 68 of 68 precincts, gives Bill Redman (D) 16,735 votes, 58.4 percent, over Carl Baxmeyer (R), 11,924, 41.6 percent; WNDU's count agrees. The Government leg banked the Baxmeyer-era state, and this chapter flags the change rather than conforming it: Baxmeyer holds the seat through December 31, 2026; Redman takes it on January 1, 2027, and is printed here as commissioner-elect, not commissioner. The election rides with a second transition in the same family: Redman is the county's term-limited sitting sheriff, and the sheriff's office passes on the same January 1 to Ruszkowski, on the county record verified in the Granger passes. County Democrats won every St. Joseph County race on the ballot (South Bend Tribune, November 9, 2026). The rest of the layer stands as the Government leg banked it: Penn Township Trustee Doris Portolese (in office since 2015); the County Council district covering Osceola; State Representative Timothy Wesco of Osceola in House District 21; and in Senate District 11, Gratzol's win of November 3, 2026 over Rogers, told in the Government leg, with its own transition.
Sources
- St. Joe Current, 2026 general election results from the St. Joseph County Clerk's precinct summary (68 of 68 precincts) — the District 1 count.
- WNDU election coverage, November 2026; South Bend Tribune, November 9, 2026 — the agreeing count; the countywide result.
- This build's Government leg — the layer as banked, against which the move is flagged.