South Dakota's legislative districts, due for redistricting in November 2021.
YANKTON, S.D. (WNAX) — The House and Senate Redistricting Committees of the South Dakota legislature meet Monday in Pierre.
It will be their first gathering since the release of the 2020 Census information. The committee must come up with new legislative district maps.
House Committee member Rep. Ryan Cwach of Yankton said they have to get a lot done in a short time.
“It’s a pretty big undertaking, I think is what we’re all realizing,” Cwach said, adding the U.S. Census Bureau “didn’t do us or any state, frankly, and favors by delaying the release of this information.”
The COVID-19 pandemic slowed the 2020 census count, a delay Cwach said was “legitimate.”
Cwach says growing areas of the state will take more time to remap, particularly cities like Sioux Falls. He compared it to changing one piece of a puzzle and then trying to make all the other pieces fit.
A special legislative session is scheduled for November to approve the new maps.
(Jerry Oster, WNAX, contributed this report.)
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