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daily gerrymandering puzzle gerrymandle gerrymandle draw districts and win the election a new puzzle every day javascript is required to play please enable it in your browser settings and reload the page a site index is below if you want to look around how to play gerrymandle you are in charge of drawing the district lines for the elections click adjacent tiles on the map to group them into a district play the tutorial each district must be one connected shape no islands allowed colored houses show where voters live not every tile on the board has one some are just empty land a party wins a district by having more houses in it than any other party if two parties tie in a district nobody wins it it is your job to draw regions so that your party wins more regions than anyone else and wins the election every house must be assigned to a district the districts are all the same size submit your answer when you think you have found the best distribution for your party there is also a hint button available if you get stuck good luck gerrymandering what is gerrymandering gerrymandering is drawing electoral district lines to favor one party over another it is built from just two moves packing and cracking packing concentrates opponents into a few districts they win by a landslide burning their surplus votes on margins they didn t need cracking splits their remaining voters across other districts so they fall just short everywhere together a party can win a majority of seats with a minority of the overall vote packing and cracking how gerrymandering turns a minority of votes into a majority of seats the name comes from massachusetts governor elbridge gerry who in 1812 approved a district so oddly shaped that a boston newspaper compared it to a salamander and coined gerry mander the practice is older patrick henry tried to draw virginia s first congressional map to keep james madison out of congress today the mechanics are unchanged but algorithms model thousands of map variants and tune each district with surgical precision why is gerrymandering bad when a map guarantees an outcome general elections stop mattering the primary winner takes the seat so incumbents only need to keep their party s base happy the center gets ignored the extremes perform better the effects are measurable when courts struck down north carolina s partisan map in 2022 the state elected equal numbers of republicans and democrats republicans redrew it and in 2024 won 10 of 14 seats in a state that is closely divided the vote totals barely shifted the lines did it also concentrates harm on minority communities residential patterns make packing or cracking a minority neighborhood one of the most efficient ways to tip a district in 2019 the supreme court ruled it could not police partisan maps even while calling gerrymandering inconsistent with democratic principles a 2026 ruling went further requiring proof of discriminatory intent rather than discriminatory effect alone making maps far harder to challenge that ruling has accelerated an already aggressive cycle more than 25 of all congressional seats have been redrawn mid decade since 2020 something that used to happen only after a census once per decade texas redrew its maps in 2025 to add five republican seats california suspended its independent redistricting commission and redrew in response virginia and florida followed redistricting has become an ongoing political instrument you can redraw several of these real maps yourself including the north carolina map from the court case above play the real maps site links home how to play puzzle archive real gerrymandered maps gerrymandering explained what is gerrymandering how to gerrymander why is gerrymandering bad the history of gerrymandering gerrymandering outside the us texas the mid decade redraw california prop 50 florida s 2026 map louisiana v callais missouri prop a ohio s 2026 map north carolina s 1st district utah the un gerrymander in the news about community puzzles updates