The City of Hometown is for the purpose of conducting municipal elections, including primaries, and for such other purposes as hereafter may be provided by law, divided into five precincts, which precincts shall be coextensive with the wards heretofore established and provided by the Code herein; however, at the consolidated elections the County Clerk may designate certain county precincts when the electors of a ward shall vote whether said precinct is within or without the ward of the residence of the elector.