The practice of gerrymandering has been around in the country since its independence.

Gerrymandering can have an impact on campaign costs for district elections.

But the Court did not elaborate on what it would consider unconstitutional gerrymandering.

Yes, yet still we have defenders of the government who insist that there has been no gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering may also be about making the most of the fact that constituencies are often not at all uniform.

However, the gerrymandering so angered him that he decided to fight for a seat.

Some called it ruthless gerrymandering, others representative democracy in action.

Gerrymandering, in its inevitable forms, has been a political custom throughout the nation's history.

Big money and gerrymandering have placed government out of the reach of most Americans.

But issues other than partisan gerrymandering are involved in the Georgia case, and it could be decided on different grounds.

The Hungarian community saw a substantial loss of political influence in this gerrymandering.

Institutionalized boundaries as a result of past gerrymandering were also to be reversed.

But partisan gerrymandering has made House elections far less competitive than other races.

Their districts have become ever safer, thanks to increasingly sophisticated gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering is effective because of the wasted vote effect.

Texas's 2003 redistricting was an extreme case of partisan gerrymandering.

Gerrymandering ensured a Sunni advantage in the elected house as well.

The issue of partisan gerrymandering is as old as the Republic.

The gerrymandering that enabled the Protestant minority to control the city has ended.

Gerrymandering of districts has been a part of the American political process for decades.

To some, it was blatant gerrymandering to force Holden into retirement.

The ruling was significant in the area of partisan redistricting and political gerrymandering.

One state in which gerrymandering has arguably had an adverse effect on electoral competition is California.

Looks like the usual gerrymandering, so no surprises there.

He said his biggest obstacle was blatant gerrymandering and intimidation.

The author of the term gerrymander may never be definitively established.

He was forcing Gerrymander to collect back into its original volume.

They say the current Congressional map is just an old Democratic gerrymander.

This "midnight gerrymander," as critics called it, was designed to increase Republican control.

It may not have been exactly a gerrymander, but it certainly walked and talked like one.

"Her congregation is so big mostly because it's sort of an automatic gerrymander.

The Brown years added up to the biggest attempted gerrymander in British political history.

He was gerrymandered out and then beat the gerrymander!

The question is what standard courts should use in deciding whether a partisan gerrymander goes so far as to be unconstitutional.

There is approximately the same population in each electorate, however that has not always been the case (see Queensland's gerrymander).

Sort of uplifting to see the Tory gerrymander creating a few twists though.

It is very rare for a Republican judge to side with a Democratic gerrymander, or vice versa.

"I am surrounding you, isolating your influence," Gerrymander said.

The gerrymander does not lie in the equalisation per se.

The plaintiff's argument of this being a statewide unconstitutional partisan gerrymander was rejected 7-2.

That map was rejected by the Supreme Court in 1996 as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

Gerrymander was being put back together.

The second case raised the question of whether the federal courts should intervene in a redistricting dispute to correct a partisan gerrymander.

Along with Elbridge Gerry, he helped to create the gerrymander.

Partisan gerrymander battles have erupted in Michigan and Florida.

They had experienced the bonanza that had flowed from the flagrant gerrymander 10 years before.

Gerrymander--who prevailed by changing its shape to block the passage of others?

Where and when black people did manage to vote in numbers, their votes were negated by systematic gerrymander of electoral boundaries.

The odd shape of the 12th District in particular has been lampooned as a preposterous racial gerrymander.

Some lawmakers said the districts amounted to a baldly partisan gerrymander that should be rejected by the courts.

These include "Jerrymander" (a reference to California Governor Jerry Brown), and "Perrymander" (a reference to Texas Governor Rick Perry).

"They are trying to gerrymander the process, not just the districts."

The Democrats, he said, "want to gerrymander the state in a way that has never been done before."

Second, a home run is something that is difficult to gerrymander.

But the Republicans not only gerrymandered the state, they deliberately took their good sweet time doing so.

And our district is racially gerrymandered, as so many political subdivisions are.

Given its obscure shape, it appears that the district may have been gerrymandered.

He was twice gerrymandered out of office by Jackson's allies in the state legislature.

Some thought the district had been blatantly gerrymandered to force Holden out of office.

Critics say it has effectively gerrymandered local districts along ethnic lines.

As long as there are districts, somebody will try to gerrymander them.

He gerrymandered, and he took big gifts, but put that in perspective.

Now they are trying to gerrymander Texas so that they can keep a stronghold.

"It says you cannot politically gerrymander for religious purposes."

Definitions tend to be gerrymandered to comply with editorial policies.

However, constituency borders can still be gerrymandered to reduce proportionality.

They gerrymandered the districts so that we were outvoted by labor clients.

A party that can gerrymander local districts can win more than its share of seats.

In the US, for example, districts are decided by parties and gerrymandered to hell.

Almost every policy of New Labour was conceived to gerrymander an entire nation.

With another, it aggressively gerrymandered the constituency map to suit the government's interests.

The Republican and Democratic parties came to an agreement to gerrymander the boundaries.

Even taking this into account, the districts are also typically gerrymandered heavily to favor the Republicans.

Proportional representation with the entire nation electing the single body cannot be gerrymandered.

This was in stark contrast to the heavily gerrymandered districts of the 2002 cycle.

But it needs some vision other than that of democratic dispersal and gerrymandered allocations.