Redistricting Meeting

Loudon County officials will hold their first redistricting meeting today. The meeting will be held at the annex beginning at 4:30.

A new census is conducted every ten years. The results are nearly a year behind due to the COVID stuff and we still don't have the final numbers we need for redistricting, which also occurs every ten years. The reason for redistricting is to keep all the county districts as close in population as possible.

Every commissioner should represent nearly an equal number of citizens. The optimum representation would be 5,466 per commissioner since we have ten commissioners and the new population is 54,662. The 1st, 2nd and 5th districts have two commissioners while the rest have only one commissioner.  To reach the optimum representation of 5,466, a few district lines will have to be moved here and there but no major chances will be necessary.

Below are a few unofficial numbers we know so far.

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8/11/21