gerrymander

Example Sentences

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On Monday the Court stopped a racial gerrymander in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

Ultimately, of course, even if California adopts a principled, automated redistricting system, Texas may gerrymander anyway.

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2025

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Alabama can’t use its congressional map with only one majority Black district, reasoning it was likely a discriminatory racial gerrymander that runs afoul of the Voting Rights Act.

From Washington Times • Jun. 8, 2023

The infamous discussion between three council members and a labor leader focused, after all, on how best to gerrymander the politicians’ districts to benefit them and their Latino allies and hurt their rival colleagues.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2022

Under such a system all unfairness would disappear, and the gerrymander would be impossible.

From Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government by Ashworth, T. R. (Thomas Ramsden)