CRANBERRY TWP — Changes in the General Assembly maps will lead to new representatives for some Butler County residents and some office-seekers running in other districts — if at all.

New maps for the state House of Representatives and Senate, approved Friday by the Legislative Reapportionment Commission, differ from the December preliminary plan, as well as from the districts in which Pennsylvanians have lived for the past decade.

State House District 8, which in the December plan would have been without an incumbent as no current representative lives in that proposed district, will officially include much of western Butler County, as well as part of Lawrence County.

While Slippery Rock was in the proposed 8th District, it will now be in District 17 along with southern Mercer County, a district in which incumbent state Rep. Tim Bonner, R-8th, lives.

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