Baltimore’s City Council is larger than panels in some similarly sized cities. Voters will decide whether to downsize it.

Baltimore voters will decide this November whether to downsize the City Council, bringing it more in line with other councils in medium-sized cities, but spurring debate over whether this would improve its effectiveness. The Baltimore Sun and FOX45 News examined how Baltimore compares with 10 larger and 10 smaller cities closest to its population size, ranging from Omaha, Nebraska, with 483,000 residents, to Oklahoma City, with 703,000.