malapportionment

English

Etymology

From 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).
    Coordinate terms: misdistribution, maldistribution; misallocation; misrepresentation
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