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Noun Concept
Categories: Constituencies, Voter suppression, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Ethically disputed political practices, All articles needing additional references
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gerrymander  gerrymandering  70/30 District  Cracking and packing  Garrymandering
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An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage) WordNet 3.0
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An act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In representative democracies, gerrymandering 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. Wikipedia
Manipulation of electoral borders to favor certain electoral outcomes Wikidata
The practice of redrawing electoral districts to gain an electoral advantage for a political party. OmegaWiki
A voting district skewed by gerrymandering. Wiktionary
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Any citizen looking at a map of district 12 could immediately tell that it was a gerrymander because of the ridiculous way it cut across 4 counties while carving up neighborhoods in half. Wiktionary
IS A
cheat
quality
redistribution
political corruption
HAS KIND
gerrymandering in the United States
HAS INSTANCE
Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions from 2011
First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries
FR
Beausoleil
gerrymandering in the United States
DERIVATION
gerrymander
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
HAS EFFECT
failure
HAS PARTS OF THE CLASS
technology
MEASUREMENT SCALE
compactness measure
NAMED AFTER
Elbridge Gerry
salamander
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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gerrymander
Wikipedia
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gerrymandering
Wikidata
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gerrymandering
Wiktionary
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gerrymander, gerrymandering
OmegaWiki
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gerrymandering
Wikipedia Redirections
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70/30 District, Cracking and packing, Garrymandering, Gerry-mandering, Gerrymand, Gerrymande, gerrymander, gerrymandered, Gerrymandering in Chile, Gerrymandering in Croatia, Gerrymandering in France, Gerrymandering in Germany, Gerrymandering in Greece, Gerrymandering in Hungary, Gerrymandering in Ireland, Gerrymandering in Nepal, Gerrymandering in South Africa, Gerrymandering in Sudan, Gerrymandering in the United Kingdom, gerrymanders, Gerrymandring, Gerymandering, Jerrymandering, Jerrymangering, packing and cracking, politicians picking their voters, racial gerrymandering, shortest splitline algorithm, The gerry-mander, the gerrymander
Wikidata Alias
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gerrymander

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