Redistricting
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Redistricting is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of redistrict.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of redistrict.
More Meanings
- An instance of adjusting the borders that delineate districts.
Example Sentences
Their main demand: representation equal to their population and federal redistricting that maintains Madhesh and Tharu provinces – which would guarantee the groups a bigger representation in parliament.
The party that holds the White House historically struggles in midterm elections, and Republicans are defending an especially narrow majority in the House. Those challenges have led Trump to pressure red states across the country to redraw their congressional district boundaries to give his party more of an advantage — a demand that has touched off a national partisan battle over redistricting.
Word Forms
- redistrictings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include redelineation, reapportionment, redistribution, redrafting, relineation, reterritorialization.
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