Shew said the chairs of the county’s Republican and Democratic parties will have to call conventions between 15 and 25 days from when a special election is called in order to select a candidate. They’d then be up for election again for the remainder of their seat’s term, which would run through 2026. “Then, once the map is adopted, it goes to the governor.”įrom there, Shew said the process for selecting commissioners for the two newly created districts would likely involve holding a special election, and the people elected would only serve until the next general election in 2024. “What usually happens - Leavenworth (County) just went through this a few years ago - is the county commission will maybe put together some public information meetings, maybe pull in a committee of some interested parties to help formulate that map,” Shew said. Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew told the Journal-World that if the measure is approved, a map has to be drawn and the Douglas County Commission has to adopt the new districts prior to Jan. Expanding the commission to five members would cut that number down to around 25,000 per commissioner. The ballot language is fairly straightforward - “Shall the Governing Body of Douglas County, Kansas, increase its number of commissioner districts from three to five?” A “yes” vote would approve adding the two new districts, while a “no” vote would keep the current three-member commission as is.Īs it stands, each commissioner on the three-member body represents around 42,000 constituents. The Douglas County Elections Office on West 23rd Street is pictured on July 13, 2022.ĭouglas County voters will decide whether to add two more County Commission districts in the upcoming Nov.

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