Methodist College Kuala Lumpur (MCKL) has invited Political Science and International Affairs Professor Dr. Stephen J. Farnsworth from the University of Mary Washington to deliver a public lecture on the topic of fake news.
Opinion Column
By Stephen J. Farnsworth and Stephen Hanna
"Recent elections in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District show that Republicans can win when they construct district lines to bring together a mixture of suburban and rural voters — but that creative line-drawing is no guarantee of success."
Link to column 
"Gerrymandering and Population Change in Virginia."
Opinion Column, Virginia Capitol Connections, Spring 2018
By Stephen Farnsworth and Stephen Hanna
Virginia is now two-thirds of the way to its next round of redistricting and recent changes in the Commonwealth’s population and voting patterns will make it very difficult for Republicans to draw lines that will allow them to retain their legislative majorities after the 2020 Census.
Link to column Op-ed columns by Stephen J. Farnsworth, professor of political science, and Stephen P. Hanna, professor of geography, appeared recently in The Washington Post and The Richmond Times-Dispatch respectively. The columns, “This one map shows the Republicans’ problem in Virginia” (Post) and “Virginia’s Changing Dynamics (Times-Dispatch),” provided a post-mortem of the Virginia elections.
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University of Mary Washington political science professor Stephen Farnsworth aptly points out that Cole’s proposal would increase the impact of gerrymandering the districts to benefit Republican lawmakers.
A map by Stephen Hanna, professor of geography, and a column by Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, which both discussed the recent state legislative elections were published in “The Fix” blog of The Washington Post. The column was entitled “The 2015 Election in Virginia: A Tribute to Gerrymandering.”
