Board of County Supervisors

Redistricting Information

REPRECINCTING

UPDATE March 1, 2022: According to the Code of Virginia, precincts must be wholly located within a single election district, meaning that precincts cannot be split by local, state or congressional boundary lines. The Code of Virginia mandates that the local governing body establish precinct boundaries to be consistent with any subsequent changes to congressional, state or local district lines. Therefore, the Board of County Supervisors adopted an ordinance on March 1, 2022, to update its precincts that it adopted in December 2021 to ensure that they are wholly located within the new election district boundary lines as adopted by the Supreme Court of Virginia. The reprecincting map adopted on March 1 is available here.

It should be noted that nothing in the precinct map impacts the district boundary lines adopted by the Board and the state in December 2021.

REDISTRICTING

The Constitution of Virginia requires the Board of County Supervisors to change its district boundaries every 10 years in the year ending in one using the most recent decennial population figures. The Board held a public hearing and adopted the redistricting ordinance on Dec. 21, 2021, at 7:30 p.m. in the Board Chambers of the James J. McCoart Administration Building. The ordinance includes boundary lines for the magisterial districts, descriptions of the boundaries and precincts.

Based on the Code of Virginia, precincts must be wholly located within local, state and congressional election boundaries. The Supreme Court of Virginia is responsible for redistricting the state and congressional boundaries, which has not yet been completed. Therefore, the precincts in the adopted map are based on the local election boundaries and the current state and congressional boundaries. Once the court adopts new state and congressional boundaries, the county will have to reprecinct again in early 2022 to ensure that precincts are wholly located within all election boundaries.

Timeline:

April 26, 2021 – U.S. Census Bureau released state population counts for congressional apportionment
May 18, 2021 – Board of County Supervisors adopted redistricting criteria
Aug. 4, 2021 – ARCBridge selected as redistricting contractor
Aug. 13, 2021 – Initial legacy data released by U.S. Census Bureau
Sept. 16, 2021 – U.S. Census Bureau released redistricting tabulated data
Sept. 30, 2021 – Prison population apportionment data released
October 2021 – Draft maps created
Nov. 9, 2021 – Board agreed to keep 7 districts
November 2021 – Community feedback received on Plan 1 draft 7-district map
Dec. 7, 2021 – Board authorized Plan 2 map for public hearing
Dec. 9, 2021 – Public hearing was advertised (all material is available, including maps, precincts and polling places)
Dec. 21, 2021 – Public hearing was held and Board adopted redistricting ordinance
County Attorney submits the adopted plan to the Attorney General and will ask for issuance of a certification of no objection.