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The Compactness – Population Quotient Model in Curbing Gerrymandering in Districting

Authors
Martin Owusu Amoamah1, *, Joseph Dadzie1, Ben Apau Dadson1, Osei Antwi1, Kwame Owusu Edusei1
1Accra Technical University, Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Accra, Ghana
*Corresponding author. Email: moamoamah@atu.edu.gh
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Martin Owusu Amoamah
Available Online 31 December 2025.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-970-4_48How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Constituencies; Politics; Topology; Measures
Abstract

Gerrymandering implies altering boundaries of districts or constituencies to favor an entity or individual with influence at the disadvantage of another. Electoral malpractices are a significant part of political and scholarly discourse. One of the means by which electoral injustice may manifest is through gerrymandering. Most of the mechanisms and suggestions to fix gerrymandering are political and legal-social. Previous authors have used geometric approach to elucidate the compactness metric. In this paper, we propose a population density model to analyse the compactness metric to tackle gerrymandering in Ghana through the Compactness Population Quotient approach (CPQ). In comparison with traditional Compactness Measures, the CPQ always performs better and gives a greater degree of compactness.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering, Science, and Urban Sustainability (ICESUS 2025)
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
31 December 2025
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978-94-6463-970-4
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-970-4_48How to use a DOI?
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© 2025 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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