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What is meant by gerrymanding?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 9/17/2019

Gerrymandering is the manipulation of electoral districts in a representative democracy to maximise the benefit to the incumbents. It is named for the American politician Elbridge Gerry, who created electoral districts of bizarre shapes to guarantee his re-election. On viewing one of them, an observer said that he thought is was a salamander, whereupon some wit said, "No, it's a Gerry-mander".

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11y ago

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