{"id":3168,"date":"2025-10-16T03:19:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3168\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:19:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:19:19","slug":"new-voting-ward-boundaries-rolled-out-in-lower-merion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3168\/","title":{"rendered":"New Voting Ward Boundaries Rolled Out In Lower Merion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 With the primary election coming up soon, Lower Merion Township voters may have a new place to cast ballots, as the township&#8217;s voting wards have recently been redistricted.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the 2020 Decennial Census demonstrated a 10-year population increase in the Township of 5,808 residents to a total population of 63,633 with a 37.4 percent deviation in the range in population between the lowest and highest populated wards.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the finding, Lower Merion Township&#8217;s ward boundaries had to be modified to be as nearly equal in population as practical.<\/p>\n<p>Residents can find out where they will be voting using <a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/613254da598349b8aa013448ef3f789f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The goal of redistricting is to realign the 14 Wards in the Township to have their populations be as close to the &#8220;ideal ward size&#8221; as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Residents whose wards have changed should go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pavoterservices.pa.gov\/Pages\/PollingPlaceInfo.aspx?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR7INd-vw7F2Rf4w9oZBpTnWOP9ihqwZKKqu3ccer-_IDTw6Bzx5pyL36jT2Vg_aem_991GAGf9PwNGyPoIzHpy9w\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online here<\/a> to find out if their polling place changed as well<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 With the primary election coming up soon, Lower Merion Township voters may have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186],"class_list":["post-3168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}