I&#x27;d heard the term before but never looked into it – it was useful to have something to prompt me (partially because this article doesn&#x27;t even mention what it is). It&#x27;s when the government manipulates electorates to increase their chances of being re-elected. As someone in the UK this is something I&#x27;ve wondered about a lot over the last year.<p>If you don&#x27;t follow UK politics, we have a government that was elected with 51% of the seats on 36.9% of the votes.<p>I found this article which explains some of the mechanisms used to manipulate the outcome of these elections.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@georgetaitedwards&#x2F;is-britain-now-too-gerrymandered-to-be-a-genuine-democracy-fe2fcbd95d14" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@georgetaitedwards&#x2F;is-britain-now-too-ger...</a>