The newly approved Iowa Senate District 27 will include a large portion of Tama County along with Hardin County, Grundy County and Poweshiek County.

Beginning in 2022 Tama County will see a new landscape in their Iowa House and Senate districts.

On Thursday, October 28, the redistricting plan proposed by the nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency (LSA) was approved by a vote of 48-1 in the Senate and by a vote of 93-2 in the House. Sen. Ken Rozenboom (R-Oskaloosa) and Reps. Tom Jeneary (R-Le Mars) and Jon Jacobsen (R-Council Bluffs) were the only votes against the plan.

The new set of maps was later approved by Gov. Kim Reynolds on Nov. 4.

Starting with the 2022 election, Tama County residents except those in the townships of Clark, Perry, Geneseo, and Buckingham will join with Grundy, Hardin and Poweshiek Counties, as well as a small portion of western Black Hawk County that includes Hudson, to form Senate District 27.

Sen. Annette Sweeney (R-Alden) is the only incumbent in the new Senate District 27 and recently announced she will seek re-election in the new district.

The newly approved Iowa House District 53 includes a large portion of Tama County as well as all of Poweshiek County.

Sen. Jeff Edler (R-State Center), who currently serves Tama County, would likely reside in the newly formed Senate District 25 which includes Marshall County and parts of rural Story County during the next election.

In terms of the new Iowa House districts, similar boundaries were drawn in the Tama-Grundy area with the Senate District 27 map cut across the Tama County line to make House Districts 53 and 54.

Tama County residents, except those in the Traer and Dysart area, will join all of Poweshiek County to form House District 53. Rep. Dean Fisher (R-Montour) will be one of two incumbent representatives residing in the new District 53.

Poweshiek County is represented by Dave Maxwell (R-Gibson) who could be in line to challenge Fisher in a primary should both of them file for reelection in 2022.

At the national level, Tama County remains in the same northeast Iowa district as its current U.S. House of Representatives member, Ashley Hinson (R-Marion) but the district will move from being Iowa’s first congressional district to Iowa’s second congressional district in 2022.

Senator Jeff Edler (R-State Center) and Senator Annette Sweeney (R-Alden).

Rep. Dean Fisher (R-Montour) and Rep. Dave Maxwell (R-Gibson).