malapportionment

English

Etymology

mal- +‎ apportionment

Noun

malapportionment (countable and uncountable, plural malapportionments)

  1. (politics) Any system where one group has significantly more influence than another, such as when voting districts are unevenly spread out across a population (compare gerrymandering).
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