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redrawing election boundaries always work in favor to ruling parties as they hv all the data n sources to make full use of.
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(15-01-2024, 03:32 PM)talky Wrote: redrawing election boundaries always work in favor to ruling parties as they hv all the data n sources to make full use of.
Has been on for quite a long time in US. Not sure about other western countries. Never follow but I won't be surprised if they did.
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Gerrymandering is the invention of US democracy, practice until today. Beacon of the world's democracy! Cheers!!
Gerrymandering, or the practice of manipulating district boundaries to achieve a certain result, often to advantage one party or protect incumbents, is as old as America.
In drawing the first congressional maps in 1788, Anti-Federalists in Virginia forced Federalist candidate James Madison into the same seat as Anti-Federalist James Monroe, in hopes of keeping Madison out of Congress.
We find that partisan gerrymandering is widespread in the 2020 redistricting cycle, but most of the electoral bias it creates cancels at the national level, giving Republicans two additional seats on average.
Geography and redistricting rules separately contribute a moderate pro-Republican bias.
(This post was last modified: 15-01-2024, 07:05 PM by
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