Posted Wednesday, July 13, 2022.

HUNTINGTON – 2020 Census population data led City Council to adopt new Council district boundaries during its Tuesday night meeting.

These new boundaries rebalance representation across Huntington’s five Council districts. As redrawn and now approved, the difference in population between the districts with the most and fewest residents is about 7.4 percent.

“Case law in Indiana basically specifies a rule of 10 percent. That is the deviation between your highest-populated Council district and your lowest-populated Council district,” Bryn Keplinger, director of community development and redevelopment, said. “Following the Census – in light of annexations, population migrations, all those sorts of things – we were at 12.8 percent.”

At the time they were adopted in 2012 based off Census data from two years prior, the previous district boundaries had a deviation of about 4 percent from the most-populated district to the least.

Districts 2 and 3, represented by Paul Pike and Todd Johnson respectively, swap precinct numbers 1 and 1A. Splitting Precinct 8 in south-central Huntington shifts 155 residents from District 4, represented by Dave Funk, into District 3.

Indiana Code 36-4-6-4 requires the legislative body of a city of Huntington’s population size to be divided into five districts that are contiguous, reasonably compact and contain, as nearly as possible, equal population.

To find contact information for City Council’s five district representatives and two at-large members, visit www.huntington.in.us/city/council.

Registered voters in Huntington and throughout the county can continue to vote at the Vote Center that is most convenient for them. Any eligible voter may vote at any Vote Center location. For locations and other election information, visit www.huntington.in.us/VoteCenter.