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Definitions of gerrymandering in various dictionaries:
verb - divide unfairly and to one's advantage
GERRYMANDERING - Gerrymandering is a practice intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries. The res...
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| Oct 31 2017 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
| Oct 7 2016 The Times - Cryptic |
| Dec 7 2011 The Times - Cryptic |
| Nov 25 2008 The Times - Cryptic |
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| North Carolina's long, meandering "I-85 District" has been called an example of this tactic named for a politician |
| (I'm Candy Crowley, senior political correspondent.) A political cartoon depicting redistricting in Massachusetts gave us this term for a practice that's still around today |
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| manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favour one party or class. |
| an occasion when someone in authority changes the borders of an area in order to increase the number of people within that area who will vote for a particular party or person: |
| The practice of redrawing electoral districts to gain an electoral advantage for a political party. |
| Present participle of gerrymander. |
| Manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favour one party or class. |
| An instance of gerrymandering. |
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Gerrymandering is a practice intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries. The resulting district is known as a gerrymander (); however, that word is also a verb for the process. The term gerrymandering has negative connotations. Two principal tactics are used in gerrymandering: "cracking" (i.e. diluting the voting power of the opposing party's supporters across many districts) and "packing" (concentrating the opposing party's voting power in one district to reduce their voting power in other districts). The third tactic, shown in the top-left diagram in the diagrams to the right, is that of homogenization of all districts. * In addition to its use achieving desired electoral results for a particular party, gerrymandering may be used to help or hinder a particular demographic, such as a political, ethnic, racial, linguistic, religious, or class group, such as in U.S. federal voting district boundaries that produce a major |