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

But recent redistricting excised GOP havens such as Temecula and Murrieta and added liberal Palm Springs, home to one of the nation’s largest concentrations of LGBTQ+ voters, making the district a political battleground.

From Los Angeles Times

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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Redistricting after the 2020 census made the district bluer by excising conservative Simi Valley.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times