Editing Gerrymandering (section)

===Singapore===
{{See also|Group representation constituency}}
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In recent decades, critics have accused the ruling [[People's Action Party]] (PAP) of unfair electoral practices to maintain significant majorities in the [[Parliament of Singapore]]. Among the complaints are that the government uses gerrymandering.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ming En |first=Siau |title='More detailed explanation needed to fend off gerrymandering claims' |url=https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/more-detailed-explanation-neededto-fend-gerrymandering-claims |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=TODAY |language=en}}</ref> The [[Elections Department]] was established as part of the executive branch under the [[Prime Minister's Office (Singapore)|Prime Minister of Singapore]], rather than as an independent body.<ref>[http://www.pmo.gov.sg/AboutPMOffice/OurDepartments/ Prime Minister's Office], Our Departments {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080607102642/http://www.pmo.gov.sg/AboutPMOffice/OurDepartments/ |date=7 June 2008 }}</ref> Critics have accused it of giving the ruling party the power to decide polling districts and polling sites through electoral engineering, based on poll results in previous elections.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Norris |first=Pippa |author-link=Pippa Norris |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/electoral-engineering/29A26685EB4B654D1B85E57679EFA3FB |title=Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior |date=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-82977-9 |location=Cambridge |doi=10.1017/cbo9780511790980}}</ref>

Members of opposition parties claim that the [[Group Representation Constituency]] system is "synonymous to gerrymandering", pointing out examples of [[Cheng San GRC]] and [[Eunos GRC]] which were dissolved by the Elections Department with voters redistributed to other constituencies after opposition parties gained ground in elections.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lim |first1=Lydia |last2=Hussain |first2=Zakir |date=2 August 2008 |title=Insight: GRCs: 20 years on |url=https://wpsn.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/st-02-08-2008/ |newspaper=Straits Times |location=Singapore |access-date=8 August 2015}}</ref>