The League of Women Voters of Iowa is calling on the Iowa Legislature to approve Plan 1 for redistricting. Maps proposing new boundaries for Iowa’s congressional and legislative districts were released last week. Terese Grant, president of the League, says the plan does an incredible job of reflecting the population shifts that occurred in Iowa over the past decade.

Since Iowa’s redistricting law has been on the books, the legislature has approved plans drawn up by the non-partisan Legislative Services Agency in 1981, 1991, 2001 and 2011. A third public hearing on the first redistricting plan is tonight.