malapportionment

He used the six weeks before the start of the new legislature to draw attention to malapportionment.

The process was intended to address historic malapportionment, and be complete by 2015.

This is due to heavy malapportionment of the electoral districts.

By this time, all other states and territories had eliminated electoral malapportionment.

Malapportionment, however, is a feature of our federal system, and clearly is not fair.

Sometimes political representatives use both gerrymandering and malapportionment to try to maintain power.

By contrast, a related flaw, called malapportionment, was largely fixed in the 1960s.

Frankfurter believed that relief for legislative malapportionment had to be won through the political process.

Therefore, Bolton argued that the legislature should choose the governor despite malapportionment.

This malapportionment can greatly affect representation after long periods of time or large population movements.

Malapportionment occurs when voters are under- or over-represented due to variation in district population.

It has the power to create constituencies and redistrict them, with the justification of preventing malapportionment.

A modified form of malapportionment was, however, retained for the Legislative Council, the state upper house.

The resulting malapportionment later known as the Playmander.

On 20 May 2005 the state Parliament passed new electoral laws, removing the malapportionment with effect from the following election.

Malapportionment is unequal and disproportionate representation electoral systems with multiple constituencies.

In the upper house in the state of WA, malapportionment is intended.

The malapportionment meant that a vote in the state's west was worth two in Brisbane and the provincial cities.

The idea is that if the U.S. Senate can be malapportioned, what's wrong with a little local malapportionment?

The Court ruled that the courts had jurisdiction over malapportionment issues and therefore were entitled to review the validity of district boundaries.

Malapportionment might be deliberate, as when the governing documents guarantee outlying regions a specific number of seats.

It has been called a form of gerrymander, however it is more accurately referred to as an electoral malapportionment.

He suggested, in addition, that the problem of malapportionment was one that should be solved by the political process, and not by litigation.

Malapportionment is forbidden by the constitution.

Malapportionment is the term applied when electorates either have many more (or less) electors in them than in others.