had gerrymandered

• past perfect

  past perfect

  Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.

  of gerrymander.
  gerrymander

  noun

  the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.

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had gerrymandered

The first Latino supervisor, Gloria Molina, was elected in 1991 after a lawsuit alleging that the supervisors had gerrymandered district lines to keep the growing Latino population from power.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

In Ohio, McKinley lost his seat, partly from the revulsion of feeling, but more because the Democrats, who controlled the State Legislature, had gerrymandered his district against him.

From The New Nation by William E. Dodd

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