In the first round, an average 15 candidates will contest each voting district.
Each village is a precinct with its own voting district, various town offices, and business center.
Although the referendum votes would still be gathered for about the next five minutes, most of the voting districts had already reported their results.
Group A changes the voting district so that 11 votes are moved to the other district.
The number of candidates elected per voting district is between one and three.
The 9th Ward was added as a voting district in 1852.
In 1997, a federal judge ordered the town to replace the system with six voting districts, but that has not yet been done.
But a few months ago, board officials said that the practice violated state law, which provides for only one polling place in each voting district.
It is quite telling that the results of some voting districts have not been disclosed.
The decisions, from the 1960's, required states to draw voting districts with equal populations.
