“Now that the election is over, the big question is will the Democrats continue to support redistricting reform,” said Stephen Farnsworth, a political scientist at the University of Mary Washington. Farnsworth added that the “painful reality” for redistricting advocates is that “reform is a lot more appealing to an elected official when they’re in the majority than in the minority.”

Virginia’s Legislature Will Tackle Gerrymandering In The New Year (WAMU) a