{Frankfort, Kentucky}...The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that a newly passed redistricting law is unconstitutional because it doesn't adequately address population shifts of the past decade. The Supreme Court held that the populations of all of the state House and Senate districts shouldn't deviate more than 5 percent and that the plan should divide as few counties as possible. Redistricting occurs every 10 years to account for population changes found in the U.S. Census count. The latest count found that the state's overall population had shifted and grown from 4 million to 4.3 million between 2000 and 2010, requiring new legislative district boundaries. State law requires that legislative districts be of nearly equal size.
