LAKE PLACID — Boundary lines for the 115th New York State Assembly District, which serves residents of the Olympic Region, will remain unchanged for the 2024 elections, according to the redistricting map approved in Albany on Monday, April 24.

On Thursday, April 20, New York’s Independent Redistricting Commission approved a newly redrawn map for the state’s 150 Assembly districts. That plan was sent to the Legislature, where the Assembly and Senate approved the map on Monday, sending the legislation to Gov. Kathy Hochul, who signed it later in the day.

Before the 2022 election, the 114th Assembly District — represented by Matt Simpson, R-Horicon — served all of Essex County. However, after the IRC redrew the Assembly maps, five of the county’s towns were moved to the 115th District — represented by Billy Jones, D-Chateaugay Lake — for the 2022 election, which Jones won. He now represents the towns of North Elba, Jay, Keene, Wilmington and St. Armand in Essex County, as well as all the towns in Clinton and Franklin counties, for 2023 and 2024.

New York’s 115th Assembly District has a population of 136,107, of which 115,320 are old enough to vote, according to the 2020 U.S. Census, as reported in the latest IRC Assembly map report. In the “voting age population,” as the IRC calls those old enough to vote, 1.1% are Asian, 2.9% are Latino, 5.6% are Black and 90.4% are “other,” which includes people who are white.

During the redistricting process for the 2022 elections, the IRC drew new lines for New York’s Assembly, Senate and congressional districts. None of those districts changed for Clinton and Franklin counties. And only the Assembly district changed for Essex County — affecting the 114th and 115th districts.

On Sept. 29, 2022, New York County Supreme Court Judge Laurence Love, of Manhattan, ruled that the IRC must draw new Assembly district lines after a state Supreme Court judge threw out those lines, deeming them unconstitutional.

The IRC’s deadline to submit a new Assembly map to the Legislature was April 28.