(politics) Any system where one group has significantly more influence than another, such as when voting districts are unevenly spread out across a population (compare gerrymandering).

What does Malapportionment mean?

: characterized by an inequitable or unsuitable apportioning of representatives to a legislative body.

What is Malapportionment in simple terms?

Malapportionment is the creation of electoral districts with divergent ratios of voters to representatives. For example, if one single-member district has 10,000 voters and another has 100,000 voters, voters in the former district have ten times the influence, per person, over the governing body.