If municipal elections in Selma — particularly those involving the city council — weren’t interesting enough, the elections held next August will be done so in wards that might look drastically different than they do today.

During Tuesday’s Selma City Council meeting, city attorney Jimmy Nunn laid out to council members the current population figures within the city and the wards that might see dramatic shifts in their lines to meet election guidelines.

Using population statistics provided by the state’s reapportionment office, Nunn said there are three wards that currently have populations that fit within the required guidelines, while the remaining wards will have to either gain or lose population.

“Every ward will be at or around 2,595 once we are done,” Nunn said. “At this point, only Wards 1, 7 and 8 are within that range.”

According to Nunn, wards do not have to hit the exact target number, but can be draw with populations either 5 percent more or less.

“The wards are allowed only a five percent deviation,” Nunn said.

Nunn told leaders there is a lot of work to this process, and setting up meetings now with reapportionment officials would get the city off to a good start.

“Have a lot to do. But the good news is we have three months before the election to get this taken care of,” Nunn said. The next set of municipal elections will be Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012 when those sitting on the Selma City Council and the Selma City School Board, as well as mayor, will be on the ballot.

The wards that are in line for the biggest shifts in lines are: Ward 2, which will have to lose more than 200 people; Ward 4, that will have to lose nearly 700 people; ward 5 that will have to find more than 200 people and Ward 6, which will have to find more than 400 residents. Ward 3, while not currently conforming to the guidelines will only have to find 75 residents.