On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Zainab Bawa <bawazaina...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, gerrymandering does take place in India. One of the recent cases (that > was reported in DNA newspaper, if I remember correctly), was the case of > election of a municipal councillor in Juhu who won the council elections in > 2007 because of the change in the constituency which enabled him to gain > votes from his ''votebank''.
In Kenya until 1990 there were 42 districts. Before the elections of 1992 the ruling dictator changed this to 70 districts to reflect his votebank. Between the elections of 2002 and 2007 - 138 new districts were added to make it 218 districts in total. There is a plan to add at least 25 more ... primarily to divide the vote-banks and also to employ supporters of the ruling party in government jobs.
