The evolution of this government emerged from the more traditional form of a police jury found today throughout our state. Until 1949, representatives of two wards and various districts met to deliberate the needs of a post World War II growing metropolis in which two-thirds of the entire population lived outside the city limits of Baton Rouge in unincorporated areas. Many of these expanding neighborhoods lacked services in police and fire. An amendment to the state constitution authorized a charter commission to prepare for the consolidation of city and parish governments. Subsequent administration and council membership adjustments were approved by voters in the years from 1964 to 1972, increasing the size of the City and Parish Councils to11.
All council members represent single member districts.
The 1990 Reapportionment reshaped these single member district boundaries, creating a new district defined in the southern and southeastern areas of East Baton Rouge.