In re Change of Boundaries and/or Election Districts of Five (5) Wards

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

Edgar Seltzer has petitioned this court for review of the April 23, 1979 order of the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County, dismissing his petition to contest the Township of Upper Chichester’s (township) Ordinance No. 382, which established a reapportionment of the township’s election districts.1

During the summer of 1978 the township had begun ward reapportionment proceedings under Section 3 of the Municipal Reapportionment Act (Act), Act of December 13, 1974, P.L. 947, 53 P.S. §11603. On July 13, 1978, the township had passed a resolution authorizing the…