Birmingham Reduces Election Precincts from Nine to Five
(City of Birmingham, July 11, 2025)
BIRMINGHAM, MI – The City of Birmingham has consolidated its nine existing election precincts into five election precincts, a measure that increases efficiency, reduces costs and changes precinct numbers and/or polling places for most of the city’s registered voters.
The Birmingham City Commission approved the consolidation, which takes effect immediately, by a unanimous vote in June. Voters will receive voter identification cards confirming their new precinct and polling location assignments by mail this summer. The information is also available immediately online at mi.gov/vote by clicking the “Am I registered?” option. The City Clerk’s Office encourages voters to become familiar with their new voting information before the city’s next election on Nov. 4, 2025.
The new precinct boundaries were drawn to be as compact and contiguous as practical, using major roads as borders while staying within the legal limits of no more than 4,999 active voters per precinct. Voters can see a map of the new precincts and polling places at bhamgov.org/votinglocations, at the clerk’s office in city hall, and on postcards mailed to each Birmingham household later this month, as well as in the city’s monthly email newsletter and upcoming fall print newsletter.
Five of the previous polling place locations remain the same in the new configuration: Baldwin Public Library, Derby Middle School, NEXT/Midvale School, Pierce School and Fire Station No. 1 on Adams Road. Holy Name Catholic Church, First Presbyterian Church and the Birmingham Ice Arena will no longer serve as polling places.
In-person voters on Election Day should experience no difference in wait time at polling places because the majority of Birmingham voters now cast ballots by mail or during early voting, greatly reducing the number of people voting at the polls on Election Day. In Birmingham’s November 2024 election, slightly less than 35 percent of the votes were cast in person on Election Day, compared to 48 percent in November 2022 (before early in-person voting was an option), and 66 percent in November 2018 (before the implementation of no-excuse-necessary absentee ballots). At least six other Oakland County municipalities have also reduced and reorganized precincts recently in response to steady declines in in-person Election Day voting.
The new voter identification cards will also clarify that all Birmingham voters were recently reassigned to state Senate District 7, a change due to a state-level redistricting issue. Previously, the city was part of state Senate District 8.
Voters with questions can contact the City Clerk’s Office at (248) 530-1880 or elections@bhamgov.org, or stop by the clerk’s counter on the first floor of city hall at 151 Martin Street Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
About Birmingham
Birmingham, Mich. is a walkable community of more than 21,000 residents in southeast Oakland County, approximately 20 miles north of downtown Detroit. It has a vibrant retail and restaurant district in a historic downtown dating back to the 1830s, charming neighborhoods, more than 230 acres of parks, two nine-hole golf courses, an ice sports arena and highly rated schools. Learn more at bhamgov.org.
