redistricting

[ ree-dis-trik-ting ]

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noun

the activity or process of dividing an area or region into new districts, such as for administrative or electoral purposes:
The program is focused on issues of voting rights and elections, money in politics, and redistricting and representation.
As school committee chair, she was tasked with a complicated and controversial redistricting of the town’s elementary schools.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of redistricting¹

redistrict ( def ) + -ing ¹( def )

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In 2020 he unsuccessfully ran for Congress, but after redistricting made the 7th slightly redder, Kean was able to narrowly win the seat in 2022.

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Following redistricting, he was re-elected to represent the 14th in 2024, which lies just north of Detroit.

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Wisconsin's supreme court is expected to play a key role in several upcoming cases, including laws around abortion and congressional redistricting ahead of Midterm elections in 2026 and the next presidential election, in 2028.

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So the first attack is always on the elections, to try to make sure they’re not free and fair, to try to keep people from voting, to try to rig the redistricting lines.

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It also comes ahead of consequential cases that will land before the court on abortion rights, congressional redistricting and voting rules that could affect the 2026 midterm elections.

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