The election of 3 November 2026 — a town seat was on the ballot

South Bend Tribune candidate record, February and October 2026; county results coverage

The record corrects the expectationOne did. The town had moved council seats onto the general-election cycle in part (the mechanism's ordinance was not reached, and no staggering mechanism is asserted as fact), and the at-large seat Elizabeth McCombs had held stood for election on 3 November 2026 — McCombs had left the council during 2025, and Julie Mudrovich had succeeded her by appointment (the refresh's payroll-strength record, rl-gv8-roster), so the seat's appointed holder stood for it as the Democratic candidate, against Tom Clark (Republican), carried in the Tribune's stated-complete county candidate list of 30 October 2026 under its contested races, and in its February filing record, which shows Mudrovich the uncontested Democratic primary filer. Mudrovich is the candidate who ran fourth in the town's 2023 four-way at-large race. The winner was not reached — no carrier giving Roseland town results was found, and no winner is declared; the settler is the County Clerk's official results by precinct for Clay Township 1, and the seat's holder at the 1 January 2027 term start prints when that record is read.

The rest of the town's ballot, at the strength reached. Clay Township's own offices stood for the term from 1 January 2027: Trustee, Sean O'Brien (D) against Matthew Clayton (R) — Clayton placed by Republican caucus on 2 July 2026, a firefighter-paramedic; and the township board, six candidates for three seats (Maurer, Richter and Shaw, Democratic; Conery, Thomas and Weldy, Republican — the February filing record spells one name "Connery" and the July caucus record fills a board vacancy with a "Steve Weldy" against the October list's "Lloyd Weldy"; all forms print as their carriers give them). No township winners were reached either; the same precinct-level official record settles them. The county races on the same ballot were reached at unofficial strength — Democrats swept the county offices: Commissioner District 1, Bill Redman (D) defeated incumbent Carl Baxmeyer (R), flipping the board — so that if Roseland lies in District 1 (the open question of the next article), its commissioner from 1 January 2027 is Redman, Baxmeyer holding the seat through 31 December 2026.