LEGISLATIVE REDISTRICTING

October 31, 2019


The North Carolina General Assembly has revised districts for electing members of both its Senate and House of Representatives as ordered by a panel of three state judges who unanimously agreed with plaintiffs that existing districts are unconstitutional. The new districts were upheld by those same judges this week after further review.

N.C. SENATE: new districts for Johnston County

New map approved this week



2018 map
The new Senate map on the left changes district boundaries within Johnston County, apparently moving Smithfield from the 10th District into a revised 11th District including Smithfield and north-central Johnston with all of Nash County.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: looks the same


New map approved this week

2018 map
The new House map on the left is unchanged. Smithfield remains divided into two districts: the 26th represented by Donna White, the 28th by Larry Strickland.

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