Where a political party proclaims a mandate after clearly losing an election, because by the use of gerrymandering they managed to retain control of the House of Representatives. When if anything near a reasonable redistricting system would of been in place, they would of easily of lost that control.
In the 2012 Presidential election, Republicans maintained control of the House of Representatives even though they lost states like Ohio and got less of the congressional votes. However, because of abusive gerrymandering in Ohio, they ended up with 12 of the 16 congressional seats available in the state. When afterwards they claimed to have their own "mandate" from the voters, they only really had a gerrymandate, because they actually got less votes in the House of Representatives than the Democrats did and kept control by gaming the system, not because it was the will of the voters.
by Hauntedsoup November 9, 2012
is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries with the intent to create undue advantage for a party, group, or socioeconomic class within the constituency.
by Subtochaoticcoops January 19, 2023
mother: stop trying to gerrymander your way through high school; you'll end up needing to save your sinking Titanic, which i am not going to help you do.
son: Can't i just relax after school, and then go and do homework?
son: Can't i just relax after school, and then go and do homework?
by Sexydimma September 1, 2013
A great word to use around young people who don't know what it means; can fill in for all sorts of other words.
Did you see those two gerrymandering after the game last night?
You could definitely tell that he had just finished gerrymandering.
Did you do anything last night, or did you just sit around gerrymandering?
Congressman : I just finished reorganizing voting districts to benefit my political party.
Voters: Why is there so much gerrymandering?
You could definitely tell that he had just finished gerrymandering.
Did you do anything last night, or did you just sit around gerrymandering?
Congressman : I just finished reorganizing voting districts to benefit my political party.
Voters: Why is there so much gerrymandering?
by Gerrymanderingpigeonholr December 4, 2015
by Grammy9907 October 23, 2006
by Yawnyboy October 23, 2019
Intentionally changing what the data actually show to fit a claim furthering an agenda. Anytime someone ignores, suppresses, or alters findings, results, data or statistics to fit their agenda. This could be media skewing a graph to hype fear (ex. of violent crime, drug use), politicians ignoring data needed to accurately assess a policy (ex. Lead in the water), social scientists beefing up a study's results to be published, companies claiming a product is safe (ex. Pharmaceutical clinical trials), and everyday users of Twitter who offer a "poll" to show what 'everyone' thinks.
The graph showing the increase in violent crime nationwide was obvious data gerrymandering because the statistics were only taken from the cities with populations over 1 million.
The Senator was gerrymandering data when he said that giving ex-felons the right to vote would mean all the convicted terrorists will be able to cast a ballot.
The Senator was gerrymandering data when he said that giving ex-felons the right to vote would mean all the convicted terrorists will be able to cast a ballot.
by Gerry Mandered Data October 11, 2018