The 2021 elections for Hernandoâs Board of Aldermen will occur under a newly approved districting plan, which decreased the disparities in the populations of its wards from 98.43% to 6.3%. The plan took more than four years to develop, cost $68,535.53 and will be out of compliance with federal law in just a few months after the 2020 Census data is released.
Hernando had not redrawn its six wards since 2008, though state law requires redistricting be done within six months of new census data becoming available. Federal law also requires the populations of local legislative districts to be âsubstantially equal,â with the legally accepted standard being that the largest and smallest districts be no more than 10% apart in their population.Â