gerrymander
jerrymander BrE

The author of the term gerrymander may never be definitively established.

He was forcing Gerrymander to collect back into its original volume.

They say the current Congressional map is just an old Democratic gerrymander.

This "midnight gerrymander," as critics called it, was designed to increase Republican control.

It may not have been exactly a gerrymander, but it certainly walked and talked like one.

"Her congregation is so big mostly because it's sort of an automatic gerrymander.

The Brown years added up to the biggest attempted gerrymander in British political history.

He was gerrymandered out and then beat the gerrymander!

The question is what standard courts should use in deciding whether a partisan gerrymander goes so far as to be unconstitutional.

There is approximately the same population in each electorate, however that has not always been the case (see Queensland's gerrymander).

Sort of uplifting to see the Tory gerrymander creating a few twists though.

It is very rare for a Republican judge to side with a Democratic gerrymander, or vice versa.

"I am surrounding you, isolating your influence," Gerrymander said.

The gerrymander does not lie in the equalisation per se.

The plaintiff's argument of this being a statewide unconstitutional partisan gerrymander was rejected 7-2.

That map was rejected by the Supreme Court in 1996 as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

Gerrymander was being put back together.

The second case raised the question of whether the federal courts should intervene in a redistricting dispute to correct a partisan gerrymander.

Along with Elbridge Gerry, he helped to create the gerrymander.

Partisan gerrymander battles have erupted in Michigan and Florida.

They had experienced the bonanza that had flowed from the flagrant gerrymander 10 years before.

Gerrymander--who prevailed by changing its shape to block the passage of others?

Where and when black people did manage to vote in numbers, their votes were negated by systematic gerrymander of electoral boundaries.

The odd shape of the 12th District in particular has been lampooned as a preposterous racial gerrymander.

Some lawmakers said the districts amounted to a baldly partisan gerrymander that should be rejected by the courts.

These include "Jerrymander" (a reference to California Governor Jerry Brown), and "Perrymander" (a reference to Texas Governor Rick Perry).

"They are trying to gerrymander the process, not just the districts."

The Democrats, he said, "want to gerrymander the state in a way that has never been done before."

Second, a home run is something that is difficult to gerrymander.

But the Republicans not only gerrymandered the state, they deliberately took their good sweet time doing so.

And our district is racially gerrymandered, as so many political subdivisions are.

Given its obscure shape, it appears that the district may have been gerrymandered.

He was twice gerrymandered out of office by Jackson's allies in the state legislature.

Some thought the district had been blatantly gerrymandered to force Holden out of office.

Critics say it has effectively gerrymandered local districts along ethnic lines.

As long as there are districts, somebody will try to gerrymander them.

He gerrymandered, and he took big gifts, but put that in perspective.

Now they are trying to gerrymander Texas so that they can keep a stronghold.

"It says you cannot politically gerrymander for religious purposes."

Definitions tend to be gerrymandered to comply with editorial policies.

However, constituency borders can still be gerrymandered to reduce proportionality.

They gerrymandered the districts so that we were outvoted by labor clients.

A party that can gerrymander local districts can win more than its share of seats.

In the US, for example, districts are decided by parties and gerrymandered to hell.

Almost every policy of New Labour was conceived to gerrymander an entire nation.

With another, it aggressively gerrymandered the constituency map to suit the government's interests.

The Republican and Democratic parties came to an agreement to gerrymander the boundaries.

Even taking this into account, the districts are also typically gerrymandered heavily to favor the Republicans.

Proportional representation with the entire nation electing the single body cannot be gerrymandered.

This was in stark contrast to the heavily gerrymandered districts of the 2002 cycle.

But it needs some vision other than that of democratic dispersal and gerrymandered allocations.