— gerrymanderer , n.
/jer"i man'deuhr, ger"-/ , n.
1. U.S. Politics. the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
v.t.
2. U.S. Politics. to subject (a state, county, etc.) to a gerrymander.
[ 1812, Amer.; after E. GERRY (governor of Massachusetts, whose party redistricted the state in 1812) + ( sala ) mander, from the fancied resemblance of the map of Essex County, Mass., to this animal, after the redistricting ]