Compiled by Paula Pyzik Scott

The Allen County and Hancock County Board of Elections show the following candidates for November 2025 races for Bluffton area elected offices: Bluffton Exempted Village Schools board, Orange and Richland Township boards of trustees, and Village of Bluffton council. The deadline for filing candidate petitions was August 6. Some applications are currently shown as valid and some are shown as pending.

Bluffton Exempted Village Schools Board
To elect: 3, nonpartisan

• Bradley J Dailey, pending
• Roni L. Kaufman, pending
• Wesley Klinger, pending

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Orange Township Trustees
To elect: 2

• Jeff Scholes, pending
• Thomas D. Wagner, pending
• David A. Warren, pending

Richland Township Trustees
To elect: 2, nonpartisan

• Seth C. Bixel, pending
• Gary Lugibihl, invalid
• Alan D. Myers, pending

Village of Bluffton Council
To elect: 4

• Don C. Burris, Jr., write-in, Democrat, pending
• Thomas Downey, write-in, Republican, pending
• Liz Gordon Hancock, valid
• Phillip A. Talavinia, valid