certify in writing to the county executive its list of nominees. Within thirty (30) days thereafter the county executive shall appoint a commission consisting of one person from each district from each list to divide the county into the number of council districts established by this charter. If anyparty committee fails to certify a listwithin the timehereinprovided, the county executive shall appoint a member of the county executive’s own choice from each council district from the political party of the committee failing to make the nomination. Vacancies in the commission shall be filled by the county executive from the same political party and the same district as the previous members. The commission shall reapportion the council districts by dividing the population of the county by the number of council districts established by this charter so that the population of each district shall, as near aspossible, equal that figure and so that each district shall be composed of contiguous territory as compact asmaybe.Not later thansix months after the population of St. Louis County is reported to the president of theUnited States after each decennial census or six months after the appointment of the commission by the county executive, whichever is later, the commission shall file with the county clerk and with the office or officer charged with conducting elections in the county a final statement of the numbers and the boundaries of the districts together with a map of the districts. The final statement must receive the affirmative vote of a majority plus one of all themembers. At thenext general election held at leastninemonths after the statement is filed and at general elections thereafter council members shall be elected according to such districts until a reapportionment is made as herein provided, but no reapportionment shall shorten the term of any councilmember. Section 2.040. The members of the council shall be elected


by the qualified voters of the respective districts for terms of four years commencing on the first Tuesday of January following their election. The members from the even-numbered districts shall be elected at the general election in the year 1980 and the members from the odd-numbered districts shall be elected at the general election in the year 1982 and so on at succeeding general elections.


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