redistricting

[ ree-dis-trik-ting ]

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noun

the activity or process of dividing an area or region into new districts, such as for administrative or electoral purposes:
The program is focused on issues of voting rights and elections, money in politics, and redistricting and representation.
As school committee chair, she was tasked with a complicated and controversial redistricting of the town’s elementary schools.

This sick status quo is a result of the rigged system of redistricting.

Teachout took a question on redistricting and another on her favorite kind of bagel.

Due to the latest round of redistricting, most Republicans are in districts with very few Democrats, let alone Latinos.

In a re-match two years later, Price won his seat back, and 18 years later, thanks to Republican redistricting, his seat is safe.

The district that Mowrer is running in became decidedly more Democratic as a result of the redistricting after the 2010 election.

The Constitution requires that reapportionment or redistricting take place every ten years to offset population changes.

In consequence of the redistricting of the State, the Whigs had increased the number of their representatives in Congress.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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