Fate of legislative districts now in the hands of planners

The future of many Iowa politicians rests in the latest Census data that was delivered to the statehouse yesterday. The Census numbers are now broken down on a county and city basis. A computer disc with all that information is now in the hands of the non-partisan group that’s writing the plan, which re-draws the lines for Congressional and legislative districts. In 1991, two incumbent Congressmen were thrown together in a re-drawn second congressional district. No one knows what’ll happen this year, and politicians who want to run for Congress must sit around and wait. The first plan for re-mapping Iowa’s Congressional and legislative districts may be released as early as late April.