Editing Gerrymandering (section)

===Croatia===
During the process of declaration and recognition of [[independence of Croatia]] the [[Administrative divisions of Croatia|administrative divisions]] of the country was reorganized into [[Counties of Croatia|20 newly established counties]] and the city of [[Zagreb]].<ref name="Stjepanović">{{cite journal |last=Stjepanović |first=Dejan |date=2015 |title=Territoriality and Citizenship: Membership and Sub-State Polities in Post-Yugoslav Space |journal=[[Europe-Asia Studies]] |volume=67 |issue=7 |pages=1030–1055 |doi=10.1080/09668136.2015.1068743 |s2cid=197764089  |hdl=20.500.11820/1da5fc55-7219-4a16-be44-780d7168a0d9 |url=https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/files/12810217/CITSEE_WORKING_PAPER_2012_22.pdf |hdl-access=free }}</ref> All of the counties had [[Croat]] ethnic majority and were in part established as a gerrymandering effort to delegitimize [[Republic of Serbian Krajina]] [[secession]] as well as any [[Regionalism (politics)|regionalist]] requests in the historic provinces of [[Istria]] and [[Dalmatia]] while at the same time strengthening [[dominant-party]]'s control over the [[Chamber of Counties]].<ref name="Stjepanović"/> Following the end of the [[Croatian War of Independence]] and during the [[UNTAES]] administration in [[Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia (1995–1998)|Eastern Slavonia]] Serb political leader [[Vojislav Stanimirović (politician)|Vojislav Stanimirović]] accused Croatian authorities of intentional division of the Serb community in the region into [[Osijek-Baranja]] and [[Vukovar-Srijem County]] with an aim to dilute their political initiatives.<ref name="Babić">{{cite journal |last = Babić |first = Nikica |date = 2011 |title = Srpska oblast Istočna Slavonija, Baranja i Zapadni Srijem – od "Oluje" do dovršetka mirne reintegracije hrvatskog Podunavlja (prvi dio) |url = https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=116219&lang=en |journal = Scrina Slavonia |volume = 11 |issue = 1 |pages = 393–454}}</ref>

[[Croatian Parliament electoral districts]] were also described as a form of gerrymandering preventing genuine political competition with each district selecting the same number of MPs while districts' population varied over the legally permitted ±5 percent.<ref name="Kotarski">{{cite journal |last=Kotarski |first=Kristijan |date=2021 |title=When EU Political Convergence Fails in New Member States: Corporate and Party State Capture in Croatia and the Czech Republic |journal=[[Europe-Asia Studies]] |volume=73 |issue=4 |pages=740–765 |doi=10.1080/09668136.2020.1864297 |s2cid=234030361  }}</ref> In 2010 [[Constitutional Court of Croatia]] stated in a report that population discrepancies among electoral districts is higher than ±5 percent and that districts' borders should be redrawn to address the concern.<ref name="Hina-Jutarnji-2015">{{cite web |author=n.a. |date=29 September 2015 |access-date=26 November 2022 |title=Ustavni sud odbio ocijeniti ustavnost Zakona o izbornim jedinicama |publisher=[[Jutarnji list]] |url=https://www.jutarnji.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/ustavni-sud-odbio-ocijeniti-ustavnost-zakona-o-izbornim-jedinicama-305605 }}</ref> [[2021 Croatian census]] indicated even further differences in population with the difference in needed number of votes in the smallest ([[Croatian Parliament electoral districts#Electoral district IV|Electoral district IV]]) and the largest ([[Croatian Parliament electoral districts#Electoral district VII|Electoral district VII]]) district for a single parliamentary mandate being 10,5 thousands votes.<ref name="Puljić Šego">{{cite web |author=Iva Puljić Šego |date=28 October 2022 |access-date=26 November 2022 |title=N1 doznaje: Ne ispuni li se jedan uvjet, Ustavni sud može i zabraniti izbore |publisher=[[N1 (TV channel)]] |url=https://n1info.hr/vijesti/n1-doznaje-ne-ispuni-li-se-jedan-uvjet-ustavni-sud-moze-i-zabraniti-izbore/ }}</ref> In October 2022 President of the Constitutional Court of Croatia [[Miroslav Šeparović]] warned that this situation may jeopardize constitutionality of the following elections in Croatia.<ref name="Iva Boban Valečić">{{cite web |author=Iva Boban Valečić |date=28 October 2022 |access-date=26 November 2022 |title=Miroslav Šeparović upozorava: Nezamislivo je da idemo na izbore bez promjene izbornih jedinica! To će biti neustavno |publisher=[[Večernji list]] |url=https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/miroslav-separovic-upozorava-nezamislivo-je-da-idemo-na-izbore-bez-promjene-izbornih-jedinica-to-ce-biti-neustavno-1628850}}</ref>