New congressional and legislative districts drawn

Many Minnesotans will have new representation thanks to revised maps released recently showing the redrawn legislative and congressional districts that will direct the state’s elections for the next 10 years.

A five-judge panel appointed by the Minnesota Supreme Court last year to oversee the redistricting process released the redrawn maps after the Legislature failed to agree on them by the deadline, which officials said must be met for the 2022 election cycle to proceed on schedule.

The state is constitutionally required to redraw the boundaries of its voting districts to reflect population growth and shifts over the past decade, the latest based on the results of the 2020 census. Each district must have roughly the same number of people, so districts, where the population was lost or grew more slowly, are expanded geographically while the boundaries of faster-growing districts shrink. . .

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