Baltimore City voters rejected a proposal to shrink the City Council, but some neighborhoods, many of them in the Black Butterfly, voted to approve the amendment, a Baltimore Banner analysis of precinct-level election results found.

For months, opponents of the measure backed by Sinclair Inc. executive and Baltimore Sun owner David Smith claimed shrinking the council from 14 to eight members would take away vital representation from Black residents and poor neighborhoods. Yet, it was the most impoverished communities who voted to approve the measure, precinct-level data shows.

The story continues at The Baltimore Banner: Baltimore rejected a plan to shrink the City Council. Some of its poorest precincts disagreed.

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