County Commission approves redistricting plan, but must vote again

By , Daily Memphian Updated: November 01, 2021 11:17 PM CT | Published: November 01, 2021 11:10 PM CT

Democrats voted for it and Republicans voted against it. But the party line was not enough to make it the final vote on the redistricting plan that creates a new commission district built around Cordova, where most of the growth was in the 2020 Census. 

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Shelby County Commission 2021 redistricting Mark Billingsley Van Turner Michael Whaley Brandon Morrison

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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.


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