Gerrymander/gerrymandering

To define or rig election districts so as to give one political party more representational seats by concentrating the voting strength of the opposition into fewer districts, thereby resulting in fewer representational seats for them. The word is a combination of the name of US politician Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814) and the word salamander, from the fancied resemblance of the map of Essex County, Massachusetts, to a salamander, where Elbridge Gerry re-defined the districts to suit his political party in the presidential election of 1812, after which he became Vice-President under James Madison.