The arrondissement of La Tour-du-Pin was created in 1800.[4] At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Isère, it gained six communes from the arrondissement of Vienne, and it lost one commune to the arrondissement of Vienne.[5]
As a result of the reorganisation of the cantons of France which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the arrondissements. The cantons of the arrondissement of La Tour-du-Pin were, as of January 2015:[6]