Definitions for gerrymandering
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1. gerrymanderingnoun

   The practice of redrawing electoral districts to gain an electoral advantage for a political party.

2. Etymology: After the US Politician Governor Elbridge Gerry who was associated with a constituency said to resemble a salamander.

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1. Gerrymandering

   In representative democracies, gerrymandering (, originally ) is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries with the intent to create undue advantage for a party, group, or socioeconomic class within the constituency. The manipulation may involve "cracking" (diluting the voting power of the opposing party's supporters across many districts) or "packing" (concentrating the opposing party's voting power in one district to reduce their voting power in other districts). Gerrymandering can also be used to protect incumbents. Wayne Dawkins describes it as politicians picking their voters instead of voters picking their politicians.The term gerrymandering is named after American politician Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States at the time of his death, who, as governor of Massachusetts in 1812, signed a bill that created a partisan district in the Boston area that was compared to the shape of a mythological salamander. The term has negative connotations, and gerrymandering is almost always considered a corruption of the democratic process. The resulting district is known as a gerrymander (). The word is also a verb for the process.

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1. Gerrymandering

   of Gerrymander

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1. Gerrymandering

   In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries to create partisan advantaged districts. The resulting district is known as a gerrymander; however, that word can also refer to the process. When used to allege that a given party is gaining disproportionate power, the term gerrymandering has negative connotations. 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 majority of constituents representative of African-American or other racial minorities, known as "majority-minority districts".

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1. Gerrymandering

   An American political term for subdividing a constituency in such a way as to give one party an unfair advantage over all others. Its adoption was due to Elbridge Gerry, Governor of Massachusetts. When a map of this new electoral distribution was shown to an artist he remarked that it looked very much like a salamander. “A salamander, you say? Why not a Gerrymander!” was the reply. And a Gerrymander the name of the scheme remained.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of gerrymandering in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of gerrymandering in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of gerrymandering in a Sentence

1. Forward Majority:

   Without having a seat at the table next year, we will likely see an unprecedented level of gerrymandering.

2. Wiley Nickel:

   The delay in receiving census data coupled with the adverse impact of extreme partisan gerrymandering should be of great concern to all North Carolinians, it is my hope that the condensed timeline will not be used as justification to obscure the redistricting process from engaged citizens who deserve an opportunity to choose their representatives, rather than allowing representatives to' choose their voters.'.

3. Republican Daron Shaw:

   Political science tells us the Democrats will need a substantial edge in the national vote, maybe 10 points, to make up for gerrymandering and vote concentrations so they can take the House.

4. Steve Vladeck:

   The court's summary rulings today in a pair of redistricting cases from North Carolina seem to drive home that the justices are not in a hurry to reconsider claims of partisan gerrymandering after sidestepping two major cases earlier this term, but that they will continue to pay close attention to claims that district lines were drawn due to race-based considerations, of course, whether Justice( Anthony) Kennedy's successor will tip the scales in favor or against these claims more categorically remains to be seen, so today's decisions are perhaps best understood as putting things into a holding pattern.

5. Stuart Rose:

   I've traded with European Union all my life, if I was to say' European Union's all bloody wonderful, they're all lovely, they all love us, there's no bureaucracy, there's no gerrymandering... that would be complete rubbish. European Union has a strange DNA and European Union works.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gerrymandering
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering
3. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gerrymandering
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=gerrymandering
5. ^ Etymology and Origins
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=gerrymandering