Dearborn overwhelmingly rejects wards proposal

Dearborn voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure that would have expanded their city council and split the Detroit suburb into council wards.

Unofficial results from the city show that nearly 71% of voters voted against the proposal.

The goal, Dearborn Wants Wards organizers told Votebeat over the summer, was to use geographic wards to help address the fact that the bulk of the city’s council members come from only a select few neighborhoods.

Increasing geographic diversity could help address flooding problems in the eastern part of the city or pollution problems in the city’s south end, organizers believed. Such a change would have put Dearborn in league with other large cities around the state who use a district-based system, including Detroit.


https://www.votebeat.org/michigan/2025/11/05/dearborn-wards-proposal-rejected-city-council/