Nesting (voting districts)

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Nesting is the delimitation of voting districts for one elected body in order to define the voting districts for another body.^[1]

The major concerns of nesting are that it may impede the creation of majority-minority districts, and that it may cause cities or other communities of interest to be split into different voting districts and therefore dilute their votes.