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Gerrymandering (/ˈdʒɛr.i.mæn.dər.ɪŋ/, originally /ˈɡɛr.i.mæn.dər.ɪŋ/), defined in the contexts of representative electoral systems, is the political manipulation...

Gerrymandering is the practice of setting boundaries of electoral districts to favor specific political interests within legislative bodies, often resulting...

censuses in modern American history. The redistricting began when Texas gerrymandered its congressional map to benefit Republicans upon President Donald Trump's...

state for citizens to vote in. The state has been sued for racially gerrymandering the districts, which resulted in minority voting power being diluted...

decision of the Supreme Court of the United States concerning racial gerrymandering and redistricting in the state of Louisiana following the 2020 United...

The map defined in Proposition 50 is a Democratic gerrymander intended to offset the gerrymander by Texas Republicans, both of which are part of the...

while a partisan gerrymander, there was not sufficient evidence that the maps are a racial gerrymander. While the map is a gerrymander, it is relatively...

Gerrymandering is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Jeff Reichert. The film explores the history and the ethical, moral and racial...

characterized the resulting district layout as excessively partisan gerrymandering, and the plan was challenged in court by Democratic and minority activists...

subject of lawsuits by voters who claimed that it was an illegal racial gerrymander. A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District...

to give members of the Republican Party in the state an advantage by gerrymandering the state's congressional districts ahead of the 2026 United States...

Republican governor. This has resulted in Texas’ maps being a partisan gerrymander, with few competitive districts. The delegation consists of 38 members...

was a United States Supreme Court case regarding racial gerrymandering and partisan gerrymandering within South Carolina's 1st congressional district, which...

Democrat. The Tennessee congressional maps are an example of partisan gerrymandering, in this case by the Republican-controlled state legislature, which...

States Supreme Court concerning partisan gerrymandering. The Court ruled that while partisan gerrymandering may be "incompatible with democratic principles"...

Democrats and opposed by Republicans, is part of a larger, nationwide gerrymandering battle. It was first considered by Virginia lawmakers in October 2025...

that the district boundaries constituted an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. The case was eventually appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court....

of the United States Constitution, as "an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander" and ordered "the enactment of a constitutionally viable replacement"...

(in particular, a malapportionment system - not, strictly speaking, a gerrymander - dubbed the Bjelkemander was in effect during the 1970s and 1980s)....

Republicans, leading to districts gerrymandered to favor the Democratic Party that are among the most gerrymandered in the country. In the 2022 midterm...

in gerrymandering to benefit political parties or incumbents. In a 1984 case, Davis v. Bandemer, the Supreme Court held that districts gerrymandered for...

Redistricting has been a controversial topic in Virginia due to allegations of gerrymandering. The Republican Party lost one of its seats in Congress when a federal...

governor, Ron DeSantis, have faced pressure from national Republicans to gerrymander the state's congressional map as part of a broader national effort between...

United States Supreme Court case in the area of redistricting and racial gerrymandering. After the 1990 census, North Carolina qualified to have a 12th district...

lawsuit seeking to overturn Ohio's congressional map as unconstitutional gerrymandering. According to the lawsuit, the 9th "eats its way across the southern...

(and by how much). It has notably been used to inform debates around gerrymandering in the United States. The efficiency gap is defined as the difference...

Krakatoa). In 1883, the Boston company that owns the merchant sailing ship Gerrymander gives her captain, Captain Boll, six months to show a profit in the Netherlands...

Redistricting Committee. The proponents said that the law would end gerrymandering and "ban current or former politicians, political party officials and...

Ohio's congressional district map was unconstitutional and based on gerrymandering. A new map was expected ahead of the 2020 election. However, after the...

boundaries. Generally the intent is to avoid gerrymandering, or at least the appearance of gerrymandering, by specifying a nonpartisan or bipartisan body...

the current 1st district lines were unconstitutional due to racial gerrymandering and would have to be redrawn April of that year. The case, Alexander...

are an example of partisan gerrymandering, in this case in favor of the Republican Party. Princeton University's Gerrymandering Project gave Wisconsin's...

is essentially guaranteed to lose). Single-member districts enable gerrymandering, the practice of manipulating district boundaries to favor one political...

seeking to overturn Ohio's congressional map as an unconstitutional gerrymander. According to the lawsuit, at that time the 13th resembled a "jigsaw...

political spectrum. He oversaw the passage of California Proposition 50, a gerrymandering proposal developed in response to 2025 Texas redistricting. Gavin Christopher...

district boundaries. The project has made effective use of partisan gerrymandering by relying on previously unavailable mapping software, such as Caliper...

of Assembly to Senate seats. In the 2010s, the Assembly was heavily gerrymandered, with a 53–45% Democratic majority in the popular vote in the 2018 election...

United States under President James Madison. The political practice of gerrymandering is named after him. Born into a wealthy merchant family, Gerry vocally...

Paul Sarbanes. The district's previously odd shape was attributed to gerrymandering to favor Democratic candidates, following the 2000 and 2010 censuses...

neither legitimate nor democratic, but created with a deliberately gerrymandered unionist majority. Catholics initially composed about 35% of its population...

a holiday. They support reforming the electoral system to eliminate gerrymandering, abolishing the electoral college, as well as passing comprehensive...

the most strangely drawn and gerrymandered congressional districts in the country, inspired the "Ugly Gerry" gerrymandering typeface, and has been nicknamed...

states, often due to legal challenges made based on partisan or racial gerrymandering. As of June 2026, several states have seen challenges to their congressional...

Alexander was a 2025 South Carolina Supreme Court case regarding political gerrymandering. After the 2020 census, South Carolina redistricted its 7 congressional...

districts, so reduces disproportional variation among districts and gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is the practice of partisan redistricting by means of creating...

gains as a result of gerrymandering in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas, while Democrats made gains as a result of gerrymandering in Illinois and New...

clauses have been increasingly cited as potential safeguards against gerrymandering. On February 4, 2022, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled 4-3 against...

States, the Boston Gazette prints a political cartoon coining the term Gerrymander, after former Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry's approval (on February...

district exhibited extreme non-congruity during that time as a result of gerrymandering. On January 22, 2018, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled that the...

2018 after ruling the previous map unconstitutional due to partisan gerrymandering. The new 12th district covers much of the old 10th district. The old...

legislators of attempting to protect themselves from competition by gerrymandering districts. The Alabama Legislature did not redraw or modify their state...

state has a single representative, that district will be state-wide. Gerrymandering in the redistricting process has been a problem since the early days...

September 22, 2025. Munger Jr., Charles T. (September 2, 2025). "Do Not Re-Gerrymander California". The New York Times. Retrieved September 22, 2025. Russell...

districts for each of its characters, created in 2019 as a protest against gerrymandering. It was designed by Ben Doessel and James Lee of the Leo Burnett Agency...

whether partisan gerrymandering claims present nonjusticiable political questions. Texas has a long history of controversial gerrymandering. In 1996, the...

members of Congress, banning congressional stock trading, and banning gerrymandering. He supports the elimination of the filibuster in the United States...

Louisiana's current redistricting map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander under the Fifteenth Amendment. Following the decision, prominent Republican...

courts found to be too artificial and partisan and an extreme case of gerrymandering in favor of the Republican Party. In June 2023, the Supreme Court ruled...

legislators of attempting to protect themselves from competition by gerrymandering districts. In 1967, the General Assembly sent an amendment to voters...

Constituencies in Singapore are electoral divisions which may be represented by single or multiple seats in the Parliament of Singapore. Constituencies...

has been a controversial topic due to allegations and admissions of gerrymandering. The Constitution of North Carolina states: Article 1, Section 10: "All...

v. Commonwealth—was a decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on gerrymandering, concerning the power of the Pennsylvania General Assembly to draw maps...

redistricting, many redistricting institutions continue to practice gerrymandering, which involves drawing new districts with the intention of giving a...

creation of an independent redistricting commission, designed to stop gerrymandering. Following the passage of Proposition 4, the Utah State Legislature...

political advantage have not been confined to the Southern states. The gerrymandering of electoral boundaries has continued along partisan lines, often negatively...

between Voting Rights Act compliance and constitutional limits on racial gerrymandering.[citation needed] Notes: Estimates of VRA‑mandated districts vary because...

have approved a redistricting plan. In 1981 Republicans attempted to gerrymander Tom Foley's fifth district by splitting Spokane (the district's main...

states, including Texas, California, Virginia, and Missouri, sought to gerrymander their congressional districts. The proposal was rejected in the State...

of Virginia Court found that U.S. congressional districts cannot be gerrymandered by race for partisan gain. In this case, the twisting non-contiguous...

Republican political strategist primarily known for his involvement in gerrymandering electoral district maps favorable for Republicans. David Daley of The...

party. This led to Virginia being ranked in 2018 as having the most gerrymandered U.S. state legislature, as Republicans controlled the House with only...

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Republicans are doing is doubling down on the gerrymandering of the last decade," in reference to gerrymandering by Republicans in Texas, Ohio and North Carolina...

congressional districts is the responsibility of state governments, who often gerrymander districts for various reasons. Districts may sometimes retain the same...

In 2023, a lawsuit was filed against the commission alleging racial gerrymandering. The case went to trial on January 13, 2025. On September 16, 2025,...

social right to explanation. Settling on a bad, overly complex theory gerrymandered to fit all the past training data is known as overfitting. Many systems...

congressional districts, finding that while the map represented a partisan gerrymander by the Republican-controlled legislature, the state's constitution does...

Jeff (September 8, 2025). "Morning Digest: Kansas Republicans want to gerrymander. They have a few problems". The Downballot. Retrieved September 8, 2025...

activist who led the successful grassroots campaign to ban partisan gerrymandering in Michigan. As the founder of Voters Not Politicians, she organized...

Court case involving the constitutionality of partisan gerrymandering. Other forms of gerrymandering based on racial or ethnic grounds had been deemed unconstitutional...

drawing of Louisiana’s congressional districts was an illegal racial gerrymander by the Republican-controlled legislature, drawn to dilute the influence...

included loyalty to the Kuwaiti monarchy. In 1981, the Kuwaiti government gerrymandered electoral districts in favour of the Islamists. Islamists were the government's...

compactness measure of a shape developed to quantify the degree of gerrymandering of political districts. The method was developed by lawyers Daniel D...

Republican gerrymandering in the congressional redistricting process following the 2010 United States Census. "Unintentional gerrymandering," — the high...

independent redistricting commission in the state, a measure to avoid gerrymandering. The proposal was approved narrowly, with 50.34% of the vote. The closeness...

increasingly alienated with further disaffection fuelled by practices such as gerrymandering and discrimination in housing and employment. In the late 1960s, nationalist...

the Supreme Court (especially those regarding money in politics and gerrymandering), attempts at election subversion, the concentration of political power...

of North Carolina judges ruled that the existing map was a partisan gerrymander, and ordered new congressional districts to be drawn ahead of the 2020...

district were the subject of a Supreme Court lawsuit over partisan gerrymandering. The court ruled that taking into account partisan advantage when redistributing...

Politico. December 3, 2009. Wang, Sam (February 2, 2013). "The Great Gerrymander of 2012". The New York Times. Retrieved May 29, 2013. "In 1996, House...

California delegation of the 110th U.S. Congress in 2007. As the result of gerrymandering, the districts in California were usually dominated by one or the other...

partisan gerrymanders" to entrench Republicans "beyond electoral rotation". The Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned the legislative gerrymander in the 2023...

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behest, the Virginia legislature designed to deny Madison a seat by gerrymandering congressional districts. Henry and his supporters ensured Orange County...

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Party. Oklahoma’s congressional districts are an example of a partisan gerrymander, in this case favouring the Republican Party, which has full control...

Justice Hancock, Jason (September 12, 2025). "Missouri lawmakers pass gerrymandered congressional map, initiative petition limits". Missouri Independent...

may be produced by joining proper nouns with common nouns, such as "gerrymandering", which refers to the scheme of Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry...

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also gives talks about child brain development, autism, politics, and gerrymandering on television and radio, to academic audiences and for the general public...

Court hearing of this case, journalist Bernard Taper wrote, Since the gerrymander was designed to defeat municipal suffrage rights of the highly "deserving"...

district boundary lines can be contentious in the plurality system (see gerrymandering). The system is also independent of parties; the party with the most...

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the city limits. The Supreme Court unanimously held that this racial "gerrymandering" violated the Constitution. In 1961, ... the Alabama legislature also...

Hungary under Orbán are undemocratic and "free but not fair", due to gerrymandering, large-scale control over the media, and suspect funding for political...

District Court for the District of South Carolina on account of racial gerrymandering and would have to be redrawn in April of that year. The Supreme Court...

following a court decision that found them to be unconstitutionally gerrymandered in favor of Republicans. The salary of all legislators serving in the...

2018 after ruling the previous map unconstitutional due to partisan gerrymandering; the previous 1st district was geographically succeeded by the newly...

controversial and, together with a Democratic Party redistricting aimed at gerrymandering him out of office, led to his defeat in the Democratic landslide of...

Republican majority in the House has been widely attributed to Republican gerrymandering, implemented by the legislature after the 2010 census. In many legislative...

represented by Democrat Alma Adams. Prior to the 2016 elections, it was a gerrymandered district located in central North Carolina that comprised portions of...

(PLP), the UBP won the 1962 general elections, largely as a result of gerrymandering. However, the 1967 elections saw a reversal in fortunes as the UBP received...

ultimately thrown out by the Supreme Court as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. His home in Baton Rouge was placed in the 6th District of Republican...

Supreme Court case involving the legality of redistricting, and possibly gerrymandering, in the state of New Jersey. The New Jersey Legislature adopted a redistricting...

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state legislature violated the state constitution by creating a partisan gerrymander in the state's congressional map by moving the state capital Frankfort...

redistricting. Unbalanced or discriminatory delimitation is called "gerrymandering". Though there are no internationally agreed processes that guarantee...

districts. In 2016, a three-judge panel ruled this map an "unconstitutional gerrymander". In response, Fitzgerald and Wisconsin Republicans hired attorney Paul...

Savannah (October 18, 2025). "These voters want to overturn Missouri's new gerrymandered congressional map". NPR. Retrieved October 23, 2025. Hancock, Jason...

which significantly weakened the use of the VRA in assessing racial gerrymandering, the state was able to gain a stay of the injunction on the 2023 maps...

voting (SMP) and block voting. PR systems also are more resistant to gerrymandering and other forms of manipulation. Some PR systems do not necessitate...

to overturn Ohio's congressional map due to alleged unconstitutional gerrymandering. According to the lawsuit, the 3rd was "shaped like a snowflake" that...

was significant in the area of partisan redistricting and political gerrymandering. The court, in a plurality opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia and joined...

out in 1995 when the 4th was ruled to be an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, and from 1996 to 2013, the 6th included all of Baton Rouge. After the...

Congressional Quarterly. 1998. Erikson, Robert J. (1972). "Malapportionment, Gerrymandering, and Party Fortunes in Congressional Elections". American Political...

Today". The New York Times. Wang, Sam (February 2, 2013). "The Great Gerrymander of 2012". The New York Times. Retrieved May 29, 2013. "In 1996, House...

as the "homes for votes scandal" – and was subsequently accused of gerrymandering. The policy was judged illegal by the district auditor, and a surcharge...

district is a good example of a state that has experienced partisan gerrymandering over the last decade. In the 2010 redistricting cycle, Republicans drew...

Retrieved September 18, 2021. Wang, Sam (February 2, 2013). "The Great Gerrymander of 2012". The New York Times. Retrieved May 29, 2013. "In 1996, House...

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applications ranging from tax inquiries to life-event registrations. Gerrymandering is a method of influencing political process by drawing map boundaries...

by one state senator. In 1966 Governor Pat Brown signed a bipartisan gerrymander the state senators had designed to retain as many incumbents as constitutionally...

partially attributed the underwhelming Republican gains to the impact of gerrymandering imposed by the Democratic-controlled Nevada Legislature in 2021. † -...

congressional map as a partisan gerrymander. In a 5–4 decision issued in June 2019, the Supreme Court held that partisan gerrymandering claims present nonjusticiable...

has done significant research on the mathematics of redistricting and gerrymandering, and founded a research group, MGGG Redistricting Lab, to advance these...

granted summary judgment that the new boundaries were an illegal racial gerrymander. This was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which in Hunt v. Cromartie...

voter ID policy 'gerrymandering'". Evening Standard. Retrieved 15 May 2023. Forrest, Adam (15 May 2023). "Voter ID is 'gerrymandering' which backfired...

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Supreme Court. He has contributed significantly to the study of partisan gerrymandering and is a co-founder of PlanScore, a platform for evaluating district...

stating that said claims must be decoupled from permissible partisan gerrymandering, per the court's decision in Rucho v. Common Cause. In her dissent,...

votes in more rural areas, which was widely attributed to the impact of gerrymandering in the post-2010 state redistricting. Based on the 2018 results, the...

that end, it pushes for reforms to protect voting rights, eliminate gerrymandering, overhaul lobbying, promote financial transparency particularly regarding...

Opposition NDP that the ruling United Conservative Party were trying to gerrymander electoral districts to increase the power of rural votes. On April 16...

Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's prior map as an illegal racial gerrymander. The redrawn maps are expected to favor the Republican party by one additional...

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the district was the third-most gerrymandered Congressional district in North Carolina and seventh-most gerrymandered district in the United States. In...

districts to be unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering. Other controversies include "prison gerrymandering," where prisons are counted towards the population...

pre-2013 6th district. The former 3rd district was an intentionally gerrymandered territory designed to unite disparate areas of northeastern Florida...

DeLay, was called by The New York Times "an extreme case of partisan gerrymandering". A group of Democratic legislators, the "Texas Eleven", fled the state...

district centered on the city of Nashville itself. Tennessee's 5th is a gerrymandered district designed to favor Republican candidates. Prior to the 2020...

December 23, 2022. Wegman, Jesse; Winter, Damon (July 13, 2022). "Opinion | Gerrymander, U.S.A." The New York Times. "DRA 2020". davesredistricting.org. Retrieved...

Democratic-leaning. Other racial gerrymandering cases in Arkansas, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas and another partisan gerrymandering case in Utah were...

partisan gerrymander an additional Republican to Tennessee's congressional delegation as part of the 2022 redistricting cycle. This Republican gerrymander 'cracked'...

MMP a gerrymander can help a local candidate, but it cannot raise a major party’s share of seats, while under AMS the effects of gerrymandering are reduced...

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adopt a gerrymandered Congressional map that would give Democrats 10 out of 11 seats in response to Republican efforts to further gerrymander other states...

Establish independent redistricting commissions in all states to prevent gerrymandering Creating multi-member districts for elections to the House of Representatives...

signed a new map proposal passed by the legislature. While partisan gerrymandering was not an issue the court chose to address in the lawsuit, the decision...

"Supreme Court calls Louisiana's House map an 'unconstitutional racial gerrymander'". NPR. 2026-04-29. Retrieved 2026-04-29. Rappeport, Alan (2026-04-29)...

wanted to see more Democrats in the congressional delegation. They gerrymandered a map that was designed to elect seven Democrats and six Republicans;...

2015. Martis, pp. 168–169. Wang, Sam (February 2, 2013). "The Great Gerrymander of 2012". The New York Times. Retrieved May 29, 2013. "In 1996, House...

frequently been mentioned as a resource that can be used to combat gerrymandering, given that the public has free access to it. Political science firms...

They used this power to draw a significantly gerrymandered map for the 2011–2021 decade. This gerrymander was frequently cited as the worst, or one of...

public hearings across the state to the legislature. The Princeton Gerrymandering Project gave favorable reviews to the maps the council drew. The state...

finance laws to reduce the influence of money in politics, ban partisan gerrymandering, and create new ethics rules for federal officeholders. The act was...

Robert (May 10, 2026). "Supreme Court ruling ushers in a new era of gerrymandering". CBS News. Retrieved May 12, 2026. Montellaro, Zach (April 29, 2026)...

subject of lawsuits by voters who claimed that it was an illegal racial gerrymander. A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District...

Political Report. April 3, 2025. Retrieved April 4, 2025. "The Art of the Gerrymander - 11 of 11". POLITICO Magazine. Archived from the original on September...

that had been thrown out as an unconstitutional partisan Republican gerrymander. The new 1st was slightly more Democratic than its predecessor. Had it...

effectively exclude alternative candidates and parties, deny ballot access, gerrymander districts, or deny the voters their right to consider all legitimate...

declaring new congressional maps in Texas to be an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Also in 2026, the Supreme Court allowed Alabama, in Allen v. Milligan...

least compact districts in the nation, giving rise to suspicions of gerrymandering. The Committee of Seventy, a non-partisan watchdog group for local elections...

congressional districts in response to what supporters described as partisan gerrymandering efforts in other states. The initiative passed with 64% of the vote...

Retrieved November 14, 2025. Wines, Michael (July 11, 2024). "Utah's Gerrymandered House Map Ignored Voters' Will, State Supreme Court Says". The New York...

the board. The court found that supervisors, all white, purposefully gerrymandered districts so that Latinos were a minority in each of them, a Voting...

of seats has changed hands in each election.[citation needed] Due to gerrymandering, fewer than 10% of all House seats are contested in each election cycle...

congressional districts. While racial gerrymandering was held illegal in Shaw v. Reno (1993), partisan gerrymandering was deemed a political question in...

Effective Congress to be "irregular" or "gerrymandered". After a federal trial court rejected a racial gerrymandering claim regarding state house districts...

for redistricting, many of the congressional districts are allegedly gerrymandered to ensure the elite persistence of select families that form the Philippines'...

decision South Carolina v. Katzenbach. Since the 1960s, the practice of gerrymandering—drawing the boundaries of each Congressional district, which are redone...

disenfranchisement. Tennessee has a long history of contested redistricting and gerrymandering. In the landmark Baker v. Carr case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in...

ruling the previous map violated the state constitution due to partisan gerrymandering. What was the 16th district was modified to become the eleventh district...

assistance to the people of Flint" instead. Amash opposes political gerrymandering, saying in 2018 that he strongly supported adopting "an independent...

Maryland's congressional delegations Ingraham, Christopher. "America's most gerrymandered congressional districts". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 16, 2015...

Whitford (2018), the Supreme Court had repeatedly treated partisan gerrymandering as judiciable, but it remained unable to agree on a majority standard...

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the United Bahamian Party won the most seats, largely as a result of gerrymandering. General elections in the Bahamas: May 7, 2012 OAS Brief History Of...

boundaries radiated out from Edmonton and some say this was a case of gerrymandered electoral boundaries. Rutherford's government received a majority of...

The homes for votes scandal was a gerrymandering controversy involving the Conservative-led Westminster City Council in London. Having narrowly maintained...

parliament, although the opposition has accused the scheme of enabling gerrymandering. In addition, Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs) were introduced...

(November 7, 2024). "Democrats flip 14 legislative seats, affirming GOP gerrymander is dead". Wisconsin Watch. London. Jacobson, Louis (January 22, 2026)...

redistricting was found unconstitutional, in part because of racial gerrymandering, and replaced was with a court-ordered map on January 16, 2016 for the...

congressional district boundaries and was described by some as a Democratic gerrymander. Despite those claims, the map complied with federal redistricting requirements...

congressional map by the state's legislature constituted an illegal, partisan gerrymander and consequently ordered the congressional map to be redrawn. Commonwealth...

election maps that were ultimately ruled to be unconstitutional Democratic gerrymanders. The Republican Party performed much more strongly in New York than it...

district and the interlocking 23rd congressional district as an example of gerrymandering and a "raw exercise of majority legislative power". From 2013 to 2017...

February 2018 after ruling the previous map unconstitutional due to gerrymandering. The 8th district was reassigned to the northeastern part of the state...

Representatives, 40 members are elected by absolute majority vote in gerrymandered single-member constituencies to serve four-year terms. The appointed...

the implementation of new maps as undoing one of the most egregious gerrymanders in the entire country. Bolstered by the new competitiveness, both parties...

the state legislature had violated the Fifteenth Amendment in 1957 by gerrymandering city boundaries as a 28-sided figure that excluded nearly all black...

Evers has criticized Wisconsin's legislative maps as "some of the most gerrymandered, extreme maps in the United States," citing as evidence the fact that...

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Jeff (September 8, 2025). "Morning Digest: Kansas Republicans want to gerrymander. They have a few problems". The Downballot. Retrieved September 8, 2025...

the altering of municipal and rural boundaries. This Act led to the gerrymandering of local election boundaries in the Nationalists majority cities of...

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Jacob Rees-Mogg stated that the Elections Act 2022 was an attempt at gerrymandering that backfired. The 2024 conference, held at the Claridge event space...

8, 2026). "Top Virginia Dem 'respects' Supreme Court decision nixing gerrymander while others fume". Mediaite. Retrieved May 8, 2026. Long, Colleen (January...

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previous congressional district map unconstitutional due to partisan gerrymandering, assigning its number to a more left-leaning district in southeastern...

the basis of race unless it has sufficient justification. In racial gerrymandering cases, appellate courts give substantial deference to a district court's...

of race in creating SB8, and that map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Davenport 24–781 April...

sponsored by Campaign Legal Center: What's more important to the GOP than gerrymandering? Anti-trans laws". Retrieved October 15, 2025. Nir, David; Singer, Jeff...

party officials. The Court also used the amendment to strike down a gerrymander in Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960). The decision found that the redrawing...

overridden by Congress, more than any other President. Wordplay on gerrymandering. The Know Nothings, who were then formally known as the American Party...

the previous legislative maps, ending 12 years of extreme partisan gerrymandering in Wisconsin. The congressional maps were last set in April 2022, when...

redistricting cycle. After Shaw v. Reno and Shaw v. Hunt established that racial gerrymanders had to meet the standard of strict scrutiny, and determined that North...

or lobbyist. Proponents argued that Michigan's current districts are gerrymandered, giving an unfair advantage to the Republican Party. Opponents argued...

voters choose their leaders and shape their own destiny. While any gerrymandering can arguably violate that principle, what we are being asked to do goes...

Boyle alleged that Street was "conspiring with Republicans to push a gerrymandered Republican map for personal political gain." U.S. representative Madeleine...

critics including the League of Women Voters of Ohio, criticized as being gerrymandered in favor of Republicans. During the 134th General Assembly, McColley...

a U.S. District Judge found that the maps were illegally racially gerrymandered, first ordering the legislature to reconvene to redraw compliant maps...

political process Eric Deggans of NPR stated, "For anyone worried about how gerrymandering and one-party dominance of legislatures may have made it easier for...

Salt Lake City. In 2017, Moore was one of four co-chairs for the anti-gerrymandering organization Better Boundaries, which led the successful ballot initiative...

a love letter to gerrymandering". Vox. Retrieved May 29, 2024. Beauchamp, Zack (June 27, 2019). "The Supreme Court's gerrymandering decision reveals a...

incarnation dated back to 2002. Its strange shape brought charges of gerrymandering by Democrats who argued it "looms like a dragon descending on Philadelphia...

"meaningful". This has contributed to eroding trust in government. Apart from gerrymandering in the United States, there has been an aggregation of like-minded voters...

He did this by buying 9 voters and taking over the second 9/17 zone, gerrymandering Sahil into a majority in a 6/11 zone, and using Anant's "Cult-ivating...

JSTOR 25513427. "The sovereigns and Mayors of Kilkenny". "The greatest gerrymander in Irish history? James I's 40 boroughs of 1612–13". March 19, 2013....

progressivism, equated democracy to a leftist demand, and expressed support for gerrymandering to "screw Democrats". He described progressives and Democrats as enemies...

grounds that the state's 2016 districting plan constituted a partisan gerrymander in violation of Article I of the Constitution and the First and Fourteenth...

term is a portmanteau of Joh Bjelke-Petersen's surname with the word "Gerrymander", where electoral boundaries are redrawn in an unnatural way with the...

districts. One proposal to eliminate the possibility of extreme partisan gerrymandering calls on using ZIP Codes as the basic units for redistricting. A 1978...

22, 2026. Jones, Blake; Gardiner, Dustin (August 12, 2025). "Why a gerrymandering critic wants to toss out California's maps". Politico. Retrieved August...

Representatives on November 2, 2004. The districts after the 2000 census were gerrymandered to protect incumbents of both parties, so there was no change in the...

partisan gerrymandering. Smith argued Gill v. Whitford before the Supreme Court on October 3, 2017. It was the first partisan gerrymandering case to be...

advocating to enjoin the Affordable Care Act; defending Republican gerrymandering in North Carolina; and, as Acting Solicitor General, defending the Controlled...

approved a redistricting map that opponents described as a partisan gerrymander and that significantly weakened several Democratic-held districts, including...

Court. Alabama's U.S. House of Representatives second district was gerrymandered and won by Democrat Shomari Figures in 2024 "Ms. Anna Marie Manasco...

Malewitz, Texas Tribune, August 15, 2017 "Sotomayor: Supreme Court racial gerrymandering ruling comes at "serious costs to our democracy"". June 25, 2018. Retrieved...

States congressional districts The word "gerrymandering" is replaced with redistricting as the word "gerrymandering" refers, by definition, to the redrawing...

redistricting amendment sparked debate over potential gerrymandering and suspension of anti-gerrymandering laws in the budget. Legislation on "claim sharks"...

advocated for the passage in 2010 of New York's law ending prison-based gerrymandering, and was part of a coalition of organizations that sought to defend...

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"Descendent of Civil War legend Robert Smalls launches bid to flip gerrymandered South Carolina seat". Daily Kos. Retrieved March 10, 2023. Byrd, Caitlin...

Casey (December 11, 2025). "Senate Republicans reject Trump's plea for gerrymandered maps". Indiana Capital Chronicle. Retrieved December 17, 2025....

suburbs in western Sarpy County. The move was criticized by Democrats as a gerrymander meant to dilute the urban vote due to its support of Obama in 2008. Following...

the partitioning and apportionment rules are simple enough to prevent gerrymandering from becoming an issue. The number of votes required to win one seat...

on a number of key issues not governed at the federal level. Rampant gerrymandering and political polarization has contributed to this as well, leaving...

2019, Mark Herring and the Democratic Party won their case against gerrymandering in Virginia elections when the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the Virginia...

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emphasizing it as necessary to protect the party from a potential Republican gerrymander. During the 2001 regular session, the divided legislature failed to pass...

overturn Ohio's congressional map on the basis of unconstitutional gerrymandering. The lawsuit described the 11th District at the time as "a detached...

elections so that all eligible voters can participate in them, and end gerrymandering by requiring independent commissions to draw the districts in each state...

electoral reform, in response to the influence of special interests and gerrymandering in elections. The Donald Trump administration has been accused of multiple...

ran from Jacksonville to Orlando; it was considered one of the most-gerrymandered congressional districts in the country. Before 2013, similar territory...

(Franklin County) Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy, who shared the following: "Gerrymandered districts are antithetical to democracy. I support Bryan Hambley for...

Holocene extinction and the 2019 documentary film Slay the Dragon about gerrymandering in the United States. He also helped launch whosontheballot.org, a website...

He is a sponsor of the For the People Act of 2019, which would end gerrymandering and create automatic voter registration. The bill would also prevent...

They were represented by the United Bahamian Party (UBP), which by gerrymandering the constituency boundaries, won the 1962 elections despite receiving...

author the minority opinion that would have upheld an unconstitutional gerrymander approved by the Ohio Redistricting Commission, on which Governor DeWine...

and California. The organization has sought to end the practice of gerrymandering in several states. In 2016, it filed a lawsuit in North Carolina challenging...

Redistricting Reform Amendment (HJ615/SJ306), that would end partisan gerrymandering in the commonwealth. This bill was passed by a vote of 83-15 in the...

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Savannah (October 18, 2025). "These voters want to overturn Missouri's new gerrymandered congressional map". NPR. Retrieved October 23, 2025. Hancock, Jason...

had overturned the maps passed by the legislature as unconstitutional gerrymanders. Democrats had tried to pass their own maps for the courts to allow in...

registered for local government elections in England. While local government gerrymandering in Northern Ireland was one of the factors which led to the Troubles...

Fought Unions". ABC News. Davies, Dave (July 17, 2018). "How Dark Money, Gerrymandering And Democratic Complacency Altered Wisconsin Politics". NPR. Retrieved...

gerrymandering" has "emboldened ever more partisan gerrymandering". In addition to giving one party power beyond its popular support, gerrymandering has...

admired for his integrity and pursuit of justice on the critical issue of gerrymandering. The programme of forced adoptions by some ecclesiastical authorities...

partisans of the regime ran as "official candidates" of the regime in often gerrymandered circonscriptions. As official candidates, their campaign expenditures...

majority in the town, around 80% of the population, making it impossible to gerrymander. Also, an oddity was that for a time it was controlled by the Irish Labour...

Court of the United States in a case dealing with the topic of partisan gerrymandering arising from the 2011 Democratic party-favored redistricting of Maryland...

2018 after ruling the previous map unconstitutional because it had gerrymandered too much on behalf of the Republican Party. In 2012 Democrats had won...

history of the South Australian Parliament was the "Playmander", a gerrymandering system that instituted a pro-rural electoral malapportionment introduced...

After a series of rulings against the state legislature by the court on gerrymandering, abortion, and other issues, Republican legislators introduced a bill...

described the proposal as "cynical" and argued that while the Texas gerrymander had precedent stemming from a 2003 Supreme Court case, Newsom's proposal...

(119th Congress)". Cook Political Report. Retrieved April 5, 2025. "Will Gerrymandered Districts Stem the Wave of Voter Unrest?". The Campaign Legal Center...

weaken Republican representation by allowing the Democratic majority to gerrymander the seats. One Republican suburban Cook County delegate, Joseph Tescon...

testimony, that at least two districts had to be redrawn because of gerrymandering. After this was appealed, in July 2015 the Florida Supreme Court ruled...

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of water and other sustenance to those waiting in line to vote, and gerrymandering to limit the effectiveness of a group’s votes. The 2013 US Supreme Court...

Region, was made politically part of the Ilocos Region (Region I) by the gerrymandering of Ferdinand Marcos, even though Pangasinan has a distinct language...

could have easily won a seventh term in this solidly conservative, gerrymandered district based in the southern suburbs of Atlanta and rural north-central...

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the House. Kentucky Congressional Districts are not considered to be gerrymandered. Voter turnout in Northern Kentucky has increased since the 2000s. Public...

districts are the subject of a court challenge and an example of partisan gerrymandering. In this instance, Republican lawmakers drew the boundaries to dilute...

standards to guide" the Court in claims of unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering, and such claims today are considered nonjusticiable. At the time of...

commissions to draw Congressional lines in all states and banned partisan gerrymandering. Cornyn described the bill as a power grab. Cornyn opposes the removal...

previously elected directly. The changes were accused of amounting to gerrymandering, with the opposition Tisza Party needing to win by around 3–5 points...

was working to strike down a ballot initiative to eliminate partisan gerrymandering, which has gained enough signatures to be on the Michigan ballot in...

Retrieved January 3, 2026. "Rating the New North Carolina Republican Gerrymander". centerforpolitics.org. Retrieved January 3, 2026. WITN. "Pitt County...

speech and action in electoral matters to the Opposition, and by a gerrymandering in such a way as to overwhelm the liberal vote in the mass of the rural...

were accusations that the Conservative administration was attempting to gerrymander the new boundaries. The council's then leader, Damian White, was secretly...

United States, this issue has surfaced around how voting is impacted by gerrymandering, the United States Electoral College's ability to produce winners by...

opposition, the elections were followed by protests and accusations of gerrymandering. The Malaysian Parliament was dissolved on 3 April 2013 by Tuanku Abdul...

the Kansas House of Representatives and Kansas State Senate trying to gerrymander all four districts to be reliably Republican, with growing fears that...

lines. The resulting district maps were criticized as pro-Democratic gerrymanders. Murphy acted to redraw the congressional seats of high-profile Republicans...

documentaries including HBO's Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists, 2010's Gerrymandering, History Channel's miniseries Washington and CNN's Lincoln: Divided...

decade. Many have criticized the maps that passed as racial and partisan gerrymanders designed to keep Republicans in power and reduce the voting power of...

a more remote one, in a maneuver sometimes described as the "Dushku gerrymander." Suffolk University appointed Dushku as Dean of their Dakar, Senegal...

In May 2021, Kissel was the sole Nay vote on a bill to end prison gerrymandering in Connecticut. Kissel's district contains many of the largest prisons...

district court that 11 of Virginia's voting districts were racially gerrymandered, and thus unconstitutional. The Court held the "Virginia House of Delegates...

"impermissible racial gerrymander", remanding the case to lower courts to correct the redistricting to eliminate the racial gerrymandering. The court majority...

minority of seats in the Assembly and state Senate since the passage of gerrymandered legislative maps in 2011, but usually had a comfortable margin to protect...

infamous "Hatomander" (ハトマンダー, hatomandā, a portmanteau of Hatoyama and Gerrymander), an attempt to replace Japan's SNTV multi-member constituencies with...

December 19, 2010. Aaron Blake (July 27, 2011). "Name that district! (Gerrymandering edition)". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 28, 2011. "CA 2022 Congressional"...

Republican Redistricting Trust Ohio Apportionment Board REDMAP Related articles Case law Congressional apportionment Gerrymandering Redistricting commission...

Pennsylvania and North Carolina on the basis that they were illegally gerrymandered. The briefs were joined by six Republican state election officials,...

Republican redistricting law that implemented one of the most aggressive gerrymanders in the country. Maria S. Lazar was born Maria Pellegrini in Milwaukee...

national news, including a 2025 proposition to redistrict the state amid gerrymandering pushes ahead of the 2026 midterms, as well as Governor Gavin Newsom...

Cunningham, Eric (October 25, 2023). "Ratings Update: With North Carolina Gerrymander Set, Republicans Hold Edge in the House". Elections Daily. Retrieved...

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owned property, and reformed local government boundaries to reduce gerrymandering. A new Ministry of Overseas Development was established, with its greatest...

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the basis for a political cartoon, which popularized it and led to "gerrymandering" being used to describe the practice of manipulating electoral district...

Court of Appeals ruled the 1st district, as well as the 12th, were gerrymandered along racial lines, which was unconstitutional, and must be redrawn...

received zero electoral votes despite receiving 19% of the popular vote. Gerrymandering is sometimes used to try to collect a population of like-minded voters...

decision written by Chief Justice Roberts, the Court held that partisan gerrymandering claims present nonjusticiable political questions. Bostock v. Clayton...

United States Supreme Court case concerning redistricting and racial gerrymandering. This case and its predecessor, Shaw v. Reno, concerned North Carolina's...

African Americans in politics. Because of this, as well as present gerrymandering that packs African Americans into a small number of districts, the plaintiffs...

to the plurality holding in Vieth v. Jubelirer (2004) that partisan gerrymandering is a non-judiciable political question, and he joined the dissent in...

small states in the Electoral College and U.S. Senate, along with the gerrymandering of U.S. congressional districts and other factors, gives the Republican...

People Act to reduce the influence of money in politics, ban partisan gerrymandering, and create new federal ethics rules for officeholders that ultimately...

2021. Matthew Yglesias (July 20, 2015). "There's a simple way to end gerrymandering. Too bad Congress made it illegal". Vox. Archived from the original...

university. Another advantage for representatives is the practice of gerrymandering. After each ten-year census, states are allocated representatives based...

redistricting, many redistricting institutions continue to practice gerrymandering, which involves drawing new districts with the intention of giving a...

the design of his district was challenged as an instance of racial gerrymandering. The Supreme Court held in Shaw v. Reno that the unusual shape of the...

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Pennsylvania's congressional map as an unconstitutional partisan Republican gerrymander. While Costello was the only incumbent to retain his previous district...

Slay the Dragon is a 2019 American documentary film about gerrymandering in the United States from Los Angeles, California-based film production company...

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nationaljournal.com. Wegman, Jesse; Winter, Damon (July 13, 2022). "Opinion | Gerrymander, U.S.A." The New York Times. Gilman, Todd J. (September 30, 2019). "Rep...

Pepper "writes with flair and insider knowledge of everything from gerrymandering to arrogant D.C. press aides" and "With speed and savvy, 'The People's...

up to the point of fetal viability. Matt Huffman has been accused of gerrymandering and being in contempt of court after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled three...

term is a portmanteau of Playford and "gerrymander". Unlike in the US, where it originated, the term "gerrymander" was commonly used in Australia to refer...

measures designed to ensure Democratic control, including an aggressive gerrymander of the New Jersey Assembly districts and another disenfranchising college...

(November 2001). Jowei Chen and Jonathan Rodden (2013), "Unintentional Gerrymandering: Political Geography and Electoral Bias in Legislatures", Quarterly...

to people, but it would make it difficult to manipulate wards with gerrymandering during elections. The colonies and villages falling in each sector are...

recognised. Sometimes this can be done intentionally in the form of gerrymandering. Penrose method (square root of the population) Weighted voting "The...

Legislative Council, and author of the forthcoming book Election Systems and Gerrymandering Worldwide (Springer, 2020). Korte, Lara (October 5, 2019), "Steve Bickerstaff...

forthcoming election forms government. Nationally in 1983/84, minor gerrymandering by incumbent federal governments was legislated against with the formation...

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increase in the building of public housing, and notoriety for an attempt to gerrymander Irish constituencies to ensure the re-election of the National Coalition...

House districts in a Democratic Party-supported lawsuit alleging racial gerrymandering. Democrats picked up two seats, with Jennifer Boysko and John Bell being...

attempt to establish a redistricting commission (with the goal of ending gerrymandering) was proposed on the state's ballot but was defeated. Trump's denouncement...

new capital district of Lashkar Gah. The capital district itself was gerrymandered to give the Barakzai a majority: Barakzai-dominated Babaji was folded...

benefactor of the first gerrymander. The redistricting of Essex county into two separate State House districts had led to the term gerrymander, with Crowninshield...

22, 2026. Jones, Blake; Gardiner, Dustin (August 12, 2025). "Why a gerrymandering critic wants to toss out California's maps". Politico. Retrieved August...

resulting electoral areas, with the aim of eliminating any scope for gerrymandering. The commissions are currently established under the Parliamentary Constituencies...

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the 2003 mid-decade redistricting plan, the 10th's boundaries were gerrymandered forcing Democratic incumbent Lloyd Doggett to redistrict to the 25th...

District of Virginia found the 2011 redistricting map to be racially gerrymandered. The state challenged to the Supreme Court, which found the District...

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the city mayor of Warsaw who have considered them a form of concealed gerrymandering, potentially leading to a political takeover of the city government...

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erratically divided streets based on ethnicity, with the suspected purpose to gerrymander a majority African-American district in order to grant increased voting...

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and natural resources. Fixing districts in place is a way to avoid gerrymandering, in which constituency boundaries are set to deliberately favor one...

of the local people and local elections. His patrón allies created a gerrymandered district for him, the 15th congressional district, shaped in a narrow...

majority in as many constituencies as possible, a process known as gerrymandering. Historically rotten and pocket boroughs, constituencies with unusually...

Pennsylvania's Republican-dominated legislature had engaged in partisan gerrymandering that "clearly, plainly and palpably" violated the Pennsylvania Constitution...

attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, gerrymandering (particularly redistricting by Republicans in 2000 and then in 2010...

Supreme Court reiterated in Rucho v. Common Cause (a case about political gerrymandering) that the Guarantee Clause is not a justiciable issue capable of being...

2018 after ruling the previous map unconstitutional due to partisan gerrymandering. The new second district is essentially the successor to the previous...

to decrease gerrymandering by creating independent commissions. At the time, Sarbane's district was considered one of the worst gerrymanders in the United...

full control of the redistricting process. The new map that was passed gerrymandered Davidson County into three congressional districts, resulting in Republicans...

2016 election, following a lawsuit that challenged the district as gerrymandered, preventing African Americans from being able to elect representatives...

Review of Books. Zelizer, Julian E. (June 17, 2016). "The Power That Gerrymandering Has Brought to Republicans". Opinion. The Washington Post. Retrieved...

Conservative group leader, Damian White, over claims he had tried to gerrymander election boundaries for political gain. Reporters and the public were...

Marblehead) created a legislative district in 1812 that gave rise to the word gerrymandering. Due to a confluence of floods, hurricanes, and severe winter storms...

Electoral units were not created according to the population but were gerrymandered according to the Governments' interests so, for example, in the 1913...

of Commons from 650 to 600, something the Labour party attacked as gerrymandering, as to do this there would need to be boundary changes. The referendum...

In the 1972 congressional redistricting, Green's opponents tried to gerrymander him out of his seat, placing him in the same district as Congressman...

Anti-Federalists, who controlled the Virginia House of Delegates, had gerrymandered a hostile district for Madison's planned congressional run and recruited...

following year, the government changed the electoral laws, resorting to gerrymandering, and altering the franchise to allow some rich men of trade and industry...

2018. Retrieved 27 November 2023. D'Anieri, Paul (9 August 2018). "Gerrymandering Ukraine? Electoral Consequences of Occupation". American Council of...

A federal judge ruled Georgia's congressional maps were illegally gerrymandered and orders the state of Georgia to redraw the maps. The Georgia General...

events—Saville Inquiry) Operation Motorman Politics City Council Mayor Gerrymandering Guildhall, Derry Landmarks Ballyoan Cemetery Derry Gaol Derry city walls...

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regime—a political system combining autocratic and democratic features. Gerrymandering, the manipulation of districts for political advantage, is widespread...

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majority-minority districts. Some of these congressional districts are gerrymandered, limiting serious challenges to their re-election, and limiting their...

method of seeking political advantage through the voting system is the gerrymandering of electoral boundaries, as was the case of North Carolina, which in...

as being an infringement on the democratic process and an attempt to gerrymander election results by the Liberal/National Coalition. At the time of the...

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on June 4, 2024. New Mexico's map faced a lawsuit alleging partisan gerrymandering diluting the voting power of Republicans in the 2nd congressional district...

to allow Afro-Caribbean immigrants from other islands to vote, and to gerrymander the boundaries to ensure victory by the PNM. Opponents of the PNM saw...

"the most criminal act ever perpetrated in politics ... the worst zonal gerrymander in the history of the world" and the most serious action of Bjelke-Petersen's...

Ireland was dogged by allegations of Unionist misrule, and political gerrymandering at local government level, during the 1960s. At this time there was...

small section of north-west Grand Traverse County were the only areas gerrymandered from the 1st and other districts into the 4th that had not been in the...

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Republican area. The odd shape of the district was indicative of the use of gerrymandering in its construction. The unusual division was not, however, drawn to...

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states to give themselves an advantage in the 2026 midterms through gerrymandering. August 27, 2025 – A shooting at the Church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis...

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contributions, constrain large and undisclosed political contributions, end gerrymandering, and reinstate mechanisms from the Voting Rights Act. The group also...

delegations, referred to as gerrymandering. Electoral reform advocacy groups often propose eliminating partisan gerrymandering through independent redistricting...

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Twenty-third district would be declared an unconstitutional racially gerrymandered district by the Supreme Court in League of United Latin American Citizens...

Legislature. OCLC 30882050. Bitzer, J. Michael (2021). Redistricting and Gerrymandering in North Carolina: Battlelines in the Tar Heel State. Springer Nature...

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introduce Irish Home Rule, Welsh Disestablishment or electoral reforms gerrymandered to help the Liberal Party. In August 1911 enough Unionist peers abstained...

to 452. Some pro-democracy District Councillors accused the EAC of gerrymandering, stating that the borders of their constituencies were altered "unreasonably"...

election, though with assistance from an electoral malapportionment, or gerrymander, known as the Playmander. The LCL's Steele Hall governed for one term...

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adventure film Fair Wind to Java depicts a fictional sailing ship, the Gerrymander, which rides out a large tsunami generated by the 1883 explosion of Krakatoa...

Index of R+2 to R+8. It is considered to be one of the most heavily gerrymandered districts in the state. [citation needed] The 13th congressional district...

time for opposition parties to prepare. There have been accusations of gerrymandering via the dissolving and redrawing of marginal constituencies with relatively...

"Former Lib high-flyer joins exit queue as party seeks to end "natural gerrymander"". InDaily. Solstice Media. Retrieved 12 July 2017. "Narungga - SA Election...

Assembly districts to favor Republicans was an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. Walker has appeared on Fox News to defend the 2011 redistricting, but...

what Biden describes as the growing influence of special interests and gerrymandering in elections, he has pledged to seek electoral and government ethics...

2021, Republicans in the Texas legislature drew heavily pro-Republican gerrymandered maps to vastly increase the number of safe Republican districts. Hancock's...

Woolgar and Pawluch argue that constructionists tend to "ontologically gerrymander" social conditions in and out of their analysis. Alan Sokal also criticizes...

second majority-Black councilmanic district in the county, calling it gerrymandered, saying that he felt that "compacting a district based on racial demographics"...

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James Tully. In what became known as the Tullymander (a pun on the word gerrymander) he re-drew every constituency in Ireland (as he had authority to do)...

of electing members from single-member districts (that may have been gerrymandered), members be elected at large, but when seated each member cast the...

2020. Booker, Brakkton (December 2, 2025). "The Democrat who refuses to gerrymander". Politico. Retrieved December 2, 2025. Cox, Erin (January 2, 2020)....

Nyasaland (modern Malawi), and Southern Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe). Via gerrymandering, much of the black population of the Central African Federation was...

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included loyalty to the Kuwaiti monarchy. In 1981, the Kuwaiti government gerrymandered electoral districts in favour of the Islamists. Islamists were the government's...

redistricting split Sheboygan between the 26th and 27th districts to gerrymander the Democratic residents of Sheboygan out of any chance at Democratic...

legislature. Viability of the proposed federation. It was hoped that the gerrymandered federation, encompassing units of such hugely different sizes, sophistication...

Cagas considered the creation of the province as nothing more than gerrymandering and political convenience. Government officials of Davao del Sur, with...

"gobbledygook" in 2017, when arguing against using any mathematical test for gerrymandering. Michael Shanks, former chairman to the National Consumer Council of...

Islamist opposition's representation in the House of Representatives, by gerrymandering Palestinian majority areas and encouraging independents over partisan...

after accusing Tennessee's Republican-led state legislature of partisan gerrymandering in the redistricting cycle. The new congressional map, which split Davidson...

"Relationship between Votes and Seats: The Ultimate Question in Political Gerrymandering." UCLA L. Rev. 33 (1985): 185. Sainte-Laguë, André. "La représentation...

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lacks a J.D. degree. Olson has written about redistricting reform and gerrymandering. In 2015 he was appointed by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan as co-chair of...

of Representatives. His first legislative initiative was the partisan gerrymander of Kentucky's Electoral College districts, which ensured that all of...

number of separate districts, an election under FPP may be gerrymandered. When gerrymandering is used, electoral areas are designed deliberately to unfairly...

assembly districts in Malaysia. The EC has been accused of practising gerrymandering during delineation exercises. Under Article 113 of the Constitution...

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After redistricting in 2010, the district was widely seen as heavily gerrymandered by state Republicans to protect the incumbent, Steve Chabot. Chabot...

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legislators of attempting to protect themselves from competition by gerrymandering districts. The decisions in Gray v. Sanders and the trio of "one person...

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specific conditions, though other avenues such as election subversion, gerrymandering, and corruption, cannot always be captured by voter turnout metrics...

v. Ardoin that Louisiana must redistrict its electoral maps due to gerrymandering, which has unfairly diluted the representation of the state's African...

1921 prolonged the sectarian divisions in that community. Cases of gerrymandering and preference in public services for Protestants led on to the need...

without sufficient justification. The Court recognized that racial gerrymandering could violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution...

nearby city of Palmetto annexed one of the village sites, leaving a gerrymander-looking arm of Palmetto sticking northwest into the heart of the new...

recall elections, and off-year elections all suppress voter turnout. Gerrymandering can disincentivize voting by artificially making certain races less...

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violated the North Carolina Constitution's prohibition on partisan gerrymandering. The Court previously rejected ISL in 2015, though four Supreme Court...

electoral district, which he and his supporters protested as deliberate gerrymandering. He was re-elected to the National Assembly, however, in 1968, and again...

voting (among them, closing registration early, literacy tests, and gerrymandering). After the amendments were submitted on the floor, Washington spoke...

Republican majority. In 1887, largely as a result of the Democratic gerrymandering of Indiana's legislative districts, Harrison was defeated for reelection...

Nir, David (October 17, 2025). "Morning Digest: New GOP plan to save gerrymander might be 'most embarrassing election lawsuit of 2025'". Retrieved October...

did manage to vote in numbers, their votes were negated by systematic gerrymander of electoral boundaries. In theory the segregated facilities available...

made gains in Florida and New York. Redistricting and gerrymandering affected results. Gerrymanders in Florida, Georgia, Texas, and Ohio, gave Republicans...

district for more than a century, into three districts. Through Republican gerrymandering, Doggett's home wound up in a new, heavily Republican 10th district...

Fergana Valley (triple junction of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) Gerrymandering Political geography Salients, re-entrants and pockets The Thumb This...

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disadvantages that apply to this specific comparison. Under MMM a party that can gerrymander local districts can win more than its share of seats, so parallel systems...

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Malaysia General Election on 9 May 2018, EC was accused of allowing gross gerrymandering and malapportionment practices by the incumbent government. It was also...

Supreme Court case Benisek v. Lamone, arguing that Maryland's partisan gerrymandering system violates voters' constitutional rights. In January 2021, Hogan...

Hofeller, an architect of Republican gerrymandering, had found that adding the census question could help to gerrymander maps that "would be advantageous...

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these positions were up for election in 2024. 2024 Ohio Issue 1 on gerrymandering Elections in Ohio Political party strength in Ohio Key: A – all adults...

Colleen; Gribble, Rachel (October 26, 2025). "Sunday Briefing: Ohio gerrymandering; shutdown continues; 15th district candidates". WCMH. Retrieved November...

cycle saw a large number of lawsuits and settlements regarding racial gerrymandering: Clark v. Roemer (1991) Chisom v. Roemer (1991) Houston Lawyers' Association...

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul) as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander that failed to follow the proper procedures. The court then assigned...

Leader in the Georgia House, he led the fight against intense partisan gerrymandering during the redistricting process controlled by the Democratic majority...

out Pennsylvania's congressional map as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander, the 18th district was renumbered the 14th and made even more Republican...

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confirmed in office in the 1976 elections. In 1981, amid allegations of gerrymandering, the Party managed to hold on to a parliamentary majority, even though...

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arm's-length body, rather than directly by political parties themselves, gerrymandering is not generally seen as an issue in Canada. However, in 2006 the provincial...

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DeLay, was called by the New York Times "an extreme case of partisan gerrymandering". A group of Democratic legislators, the "Texas Eleven", fled the state...

described as an ethnocracy by numerous scholars. Wendy Pullan describes gerrymandering of electoral districts to ensure Unionist domination and informal policies...

Tullymander – combining the name of the minister James Tully with the word "gerrymander" – was coined. It repealed the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1969, which...

Congress. John Greene Robert R. Scott John J. Duncan Jr. Ralph McGill This gerrymandered district, which stretches from the Chattanooga metropolitan area in...

Ben Wikler discusses leading Wisconsin's Democrats through state GOP gerrymandering, and how the party can evolve and win over the working class nationally...

boundaries in June 2017, a controversial vote that drew accusations of gerrymandering to favor two of the incumbents. The districting was forced by the threat...

of Texas's 23rd congressional district, which it held was racially gerrymandered in violation of Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, apparently...

The Nevada Independent partially attributed this to the impact of gerrymandering imposed by the Democratic-controlled Nevada Legislature in 2021. The...

the Day: Wisconsin gerrymandering was awesome". Mother Jones. December 4, 2018. Retrieved July 22, 2019. "Wisconsin gerrymandering: data shows stark impact...

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(August 8, 2025). "Morning Digest: Florida Republicans prepare to re-gerrymander their map, too". The Downballot. Retrieved August 8, 2025. Nann Burke...

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the existing boundaries at the time because of politically directed gerrymandering that suppressed minority representation. In 2018, Pittenger was defeated...