Who votes on this seat: Only voters who live in this township vote in this race.
What this office does
The township board is the three-member legislative body of an Indiana township. It adopts the township budget and tax levy, sets the pay of township officers and employees, and reviews the trustee's annual report [1, 2, 3, 4].
The job in full — the duties the Indiana Code puts in it, the term, what it pays and who sets that, and what to ask a candidate.
- Seats
- Three per township; voters may choose up to three candidates [1, 5]
- Qualifications
- Must be registered to vote in the township by the filing deadline and file a statement of economic interests [6]
- On the 2026 ballot
- 921 township boards; 302 contested (more candidates, including write-ins, than seats) [5]
What the law puts in this job (4)
- Adopts the township's annual budget and tax levy [2].
- Fixes the salaries and pay of township officers and employees [3].
- Meets each February to review the trustee's annual report and approve it in whole or in part [4, 7].
- Does not run township operations day to day; that is the trustee's job as township executive [8].
What has changed in this job lately
Changes in the law the next officeholder will work under, most distant first.
2026
SEA 270 directs the Department of Local Government Finance to score townships by Dec. 31, 2026; townships with low scores must merge with another township by Jan. 1, 2029 [9].
About this race
- Voters may choose up to 3; 6 candidates are on the list [5].
- No candidate forum or debate for this race was found in free sources as of Oct. 13, 2026.
Candidates on the ballot
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Diane Dwyer Blackwell
Republican
Diane Dwyer Blackwell is a Republican candidate [5].
How Blackwell got on the ballot
- Not on the May 5, 2026 primary ballot for this office; listed as a Republican candidate on the state's Sept. 22 general-election list [10, 5].
What we could not find about Blackwell
- No campaign website, candidate questionnaire, news interview or biography was found in free sources as of Oct. 13, 2026.
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James Robert Freiberger (Jimmy), II
Democratic
James Robert Freiberger (Jimmy), II is a Democratic candidate [5].
How Jimmy got on the ballot
- Not on the May 5, 2026 primary ballot for this office; listed as a Democratic candidate on the state's Sept. 22 general-election list [10, 5].
What we could not find about Jimmy
- No campaign website, candidate questionnaire, news interview or biography was found in free sources as of Oct. 13, 2026.
Lucas Gosnell is a Democratic candidate [5].
How Gosnell got on the ballot
- Not on the May 5, 2026 primary ballot for this office; listed as a Democratic candidate on the state's Sept. 22 general-election list [10, 5].
What we could not find about Gosnell
- No campaign website, candidate questionnaire, news interview or biography was found in free sources as of Oct. 13, 2026.
Michael Jay is a Democratic candidate [5].
How Jay got on the ballot
- Not on the May 5, 2026 primary ballot for this office; listed as a Democratic candidate on the state's Sept. 22 general-election list [10, 5].
What we could not find about Jay
- No campaign website, candidate questionnaire, news interview or biography was found in free sources as of Oct. 13, 2026.
Terri E Smith is a Republican candidate [5].
How Smith got on the ballot
- Not on the May 5, 2026 primary ballot for this office; listed as a Republican candidate on the state's Sept. 22 general-election list [10, 5].
What we could not find about Smith
- No campaign website, candidate questionnaire, news interview or biography was found in free sources as of Oct. 13, 2026.
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Marilyn A. Sowers
Republican
Marilyn A. Sowers is a Republican candidate [5].
How Sowers got on the ballot
- Nominated in the May 5, 2026 Republican primary, where the number of candidates did not exceed the seats (2,238 votes) [10].
What we could not find about Sowers
- No campaign website, candidate questionnaire, news interview or biography was found in free sources as of Oct. 13, 2026.
- What's included
- the U.S. House, statewide offices, every Indiana House and Senate district on the ballot, Indiana's statewide public questions and judicial retention questions, and county, township, city, town and school board races from the Indiana Election Division's candidate list.
- Everything else
- Local races (county, city, school board, judges) and anything else on your ballot are on your official sample ballot: IndianaVoters.in.gov.
- Candidate lists
- As of Sunday, October 18, 2026.
- At the polls
- Indiana law lets you bring a list of candidates and public questions into the polling place, including one stored on your phone, as long as you don't electioneer. IC 3-11-8-18.5
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