CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland City Council members voted 14-2 Monday night on a sweeping plan to redraw ward boundaries and eliminate two council seats — introducing and passing it in a single meeting.

CLEVELAND — At its first meeting of the new year on Monday, Cleveland City Council officially approved a new representative ward map that will reduce the number of legislative seats from 17 to 15.

Mark Salling, a demographer and former Cleveland State University professor of urban affairs, said Cleveland’s irregular shape means that drawing wards needs to start in the corners of the city, and ...

Voters in McCandless will follow 2012 ward maps for elections this year instead of the new voting districts that were updated in 2023, which have to be reviewed again by the state. This also is a ...