Gerrymandering may be defined as a negative and manipulative act of politicians to redraw the legislative/electoral district boundaries to deprive the representation that another group or party would enjoy. Partisan political gerrymandering involves a situation in which a map distributing voters for purposes of political representation is drawn to ensure that one political party wins a disproportionate number of seats. Gerrymandering includes both ‘cracking’ and ‘packing’. Cracking involves splitting the vote for a group among a number of constituencies such that the support is so divided as to limit its impact in any one constituency. Packing refers to grouping the supporters of a particular group in one constituency such that there will be a large number of votes which will foreseeably not have any impact on the election. Simply said, gerrymandering means an artificial delimitation of the constituencies to advantage or benefit one particular party or group, or to cause disadvantage or harm to an opposing party or group. It is a refined form of electoral geometry, which owes its name to Elbridge Gerry, one of the Founding Fathers, fifth Vice-President of the United States (1813-1814). Gerrymandering is therefore not a manipulation of the allocation seats to constituencies but of constituency delineation.