New district maps for future Johnson County Board of Supervisors elections were released, placing some of the current supervisors in the same district. Due to the way the districts were drawn, the supervisors will now have to either move to a district with no sitting supervisor, or run against each other for the first time.
The redistricting came about after Senate File 75 was signed into law in April by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, R-Iowa. The law requires the three counties that host regent universities to change the way they elect supervisors, electing by district instead of at-large.
Besides Johnson County, which hosts the University of Iowa, the other two affected counties are Story County, which holds Iowa State University, and Black Hawk County, which hosts the University of Northern Iowa…