gerrymandering
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- Etymology
- Tactics
- Effects
- Effect on electoral competition
- Increased incumbent advantage and campaign costs
- Less descriptive representation
- Incumbent gerrymandering
- Prison-based gerrymandering
- Changes to achieve competitive elections
- Proportional representation
- Redistricting by neutral or cross-party agency
- Redistricting by partisan competition
- Transparency regulations
- Changing the voting system
- Using fixed districts
- Increasing the number of representatives
- Objective rules to create districts
- Minimum district to convex polygon ratio
- Shortest splitline algorithm
- Minimum isoperimetric quotient
- Efficiency gap calculation
- Seats–votes curve
- Gerrymandering in different voting systems
- First-past-the-post
- Proportional systems
- Mixed systems
- Use of databases and computer technology
- Difference from malapportionment
- Historical examples by country
- Australia
- National
- South Australia
- Queensland
- Western Australia
- City of Sydney Council
- Bahamas
- Canada
- Chile
- Croatia
- El Salvador
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Ireland
- India
- Italy
- Kuwait
- Lithuania
- Malaysia
- Malta
- Nepal
- Philippines
- Singapore
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- Northern Ireland
- Parliamentary elections
- United States
- Racial gerrymandering
- Venezuela
- Information gerrymandering
- Related terms
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|upright|Boundaries drawn to apportion five "districts" result in varying color majorities, including no yellow and 5 blue (top left), 3 yellow and 2 blue (top right), and 2 yellow and 3 blue (lower examples matching "voter" proportions).
Gerrymandering, (, originally ) defined in the contexts of representative electoral systems, is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries to advantage a party, group, or socioeconomic class within the constituency.