Demarcación Arbitraria e Injusta de Distritos Electorales, Manipulación de Distritos Electorales

A way or practice of controlling the boundaries of district lines to favor the electoral advantage of a political party or faction. The term was first used in 1812, when Elbridge Gerry was Governor of [..]

The manipulation of the redistricting process at the state level to benefit the majority party and/or all incumbents.  The term originated to describe Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry’s (1810-1812) successful attempt to maximize the numerical political advantage for his Democratic-Republican Party.

Legislative district boundary lines drawn to obtain partisan or factional advantages.

A redistricting of voting areas to advantage one party or weaken the voting strength of an ethnic group, urban population, region, etc. Districts are often odd-shaped and fails the test of geographic compactness as a result.

a process in which a voting district is broken up or the physical boundaries of a voting district are changed in order to make it easier for one political party to win future elections.  (see redistricting) The term gerrymander was coined in 1812 when a county in Massachusetts was redistricted into a salamander-like shape by Gov. Elbridge Gerry for [..]

The manipulation of the boundaries of electoral subdivisions to gain political advantage.

A practice that could be termed "undemocratic", where the party in power draws electoral or constituency boundaries to its advantage.

In the context of Northern Ireland this term was used to describe the claim that after 1921 the Unionist authorities deliberately manipulated electoral boundaries, particularly at local government level, for political purposes. The gerrymandering of electoral boundaries was one of the main issues raised by the civil rights movement in the late 1960 [..]