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November 3, 2016

A low-profile revolution in local government is happening this November as twenty-one California cities hold their first by-district city council elections. Prior to the 2002 passage of the California Voting Rights Act, only twenty-nine of California’s nearly 500 cities held by-district elections: twenty-seven in purely bydistrict elections, and Downey and Oakland electing one councilmember “at large” (or citywide) and the rest of the council-by-district (in Downey and Oakland the citywide councilmember is not the mayor). Between the passage of the Act in 2002 and June of 2016, the CVRA prompted nine more cities to hold their first by-district elections. This November the total number of cities using by-district elections is jumping to fifty-nine.

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