Gerrymandering by varying the districts’ shape. • There are three kinds of delin-eational gerrymandering: cracking (or fracturing), packing, and stacking. See CRACKING; PACKING; STACKING(2).
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gerrymandering (jer-ee-man-d[schwa]r-ing orger-ee-), n. 1. The practice of dividing a geographical area into electoral districts, often of highly irregular shape, to give one political party an unfair advantage by diluting the opposition’s voting strength. • When Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry ran for reelection in 1812, members of his political party, the Anti-Federalists, altered the state’s