district lines
Voting area divisions
District lines are the boundaries that define electoral or administrative districts.
The term appears most often in discussions of redistricting—the periodic redrawing of these boundaries based on population changes.
Politicians accused the legislature of manipulating district lines to favor incumbents.
To draw district lines is to establish where one voting district ends and another begins, a process frequently contested for its potential to concentrate or dilute political power.
- gerrymanderingManipulating electoral boundaries strategically
- boundariesLines marking separation
- bordersLines separating regions
- political mapMap showing governmental boundaries
- votingFormally registering a choice
voting rights · precincts · electoral · swing state · safe seat · maps · wards · constituencies · red and blue · zoning · census · census data · representation · fair representation · apportionment · state legislature · politicians · manipulation
- school districtsschool boards, school board, superintendents, school funding, school taxes
- School Transferstransfer request, enrollment, admission, school zoning, open enrollment
- city limitscity limits, city boundaries, city proper, boundary marker, demarcation
- gerrymanderingpacking, cracking, racial gerrymandering, malapportionment
- Redistrictinggerrymandering, reapportionment, apportionment, map drawing, mapmakers
- eligibilityeligible, ineligible, eligibility, eligibility criteria, qualified
district linesnatural boundaries
Terrain-defined territorial limits
geographic boundaries · mountain ranges · coastlines · watersheds · natural features
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