redistricting

[ ree-dis-trik-ting ]

noun

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of redistricting¹

redistrict ( def ) + -ing ¹( def )

Example Sentences

While some might see the delay as a problem, Russia Chavis Cardenas, the voting rights and redistricting program manager for California Common Cause, called it a virtue.

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And by 2032, following a redistricting process, all nine supervisors will be elected.

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Independent redistricting commissions increase public participation, reduce gerrymandering and draw districts that represent communities, not individual politicians’ interests.

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Voters overwhelmingly backed charter changes designed to curb elected officials’ political power by creating an independent redistricting commission and empowering the city’s Ethics Commission.

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City voters laid the groundwork for fairer, more representative elections by passing Charter Amendment DD, enacting independent redistricting.

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