Political party strength in West Virginia
The following tables indicate the historic party affiliation of elected officials in the U.S. State of West Virginia, including: Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, State Auditor,[1] State Treasurer,[2] and State Agriculture Commissioner. The tables also indicate the historical party composition in the State Senate, State House of Delegates,[3] State delegation to the U.S. Senate, and the State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives For years in which a presidential election was held, the tables indicate which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The parties are labeled as follows: Democratic (D) and Republican (R), Unconditional Unionist (UU), and a tie between two designated parties.
19th century
| Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | |||||||
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| Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Auditor | Treasurer | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House | ||
| 1863 | Arthur I. Boreman (R)[lower-alpha 1] | Jacob Edgar Boyers (R) | Aquilla B. Caldwell (R) | Samuel Crane (R) | Campbell Tarr (R) | 20 UU | 52 UU | Peter G. Van Winkle, (UU)[4] | Waitman T. Willey, (UU) | 3 UU | |
| 1864 | Lincoln/Johnson (R)
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| 1865 | Granville D. Hall (R) | Ephraim B. Hall (R) | Joseph M. McWhorter (R) | Waitman T. Willey (R) | 2 UU, 1 R | ||||||
| 1866 | Edwin Maxwell (R) | 19 R, 1 D | 48 R, 8 D | ||||||||
| 1867 | John Witcher (R) | Thayer Melvin (R) | Jacob H. Brister (R) | 19 R, 43 D | 41 R, 15 D | 3 R | |||||
| 1868 | 20 R, 2 D | 42 R, 14 D | Grant/Colfax (R)
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| 1869 | Daniel D. T. Farnsworth (R)[lower-alpha 2], William E. Stevenson (R) | James M. Pipes (R) | Aquilla B. Caldwell (R)[lower-alpha 3] | Thomas Boggess (R) | James A. Macauley (R) | 18 R, 4 D | 32 R, 24 D | Arthur I. Boreman (R) | 3 R | ||
| 1870 | 13 LR, 5 D, 4 R | 33 R, 23 D | |||||||||
| 1871 | John J. Jacob (D) | John M. Phelps (R) | Joseph Sprigg (D) | Edward A. Bennett (D) | John S. Burdett (D) | 12 D, 10 R | 40 D, 16 R | Henry G. Davis (D) | 2 D, 1 R | ||
| 1872 | 18 D, 4 R | 39 D, 16 R, 1 ? | Grant/Wilson (R) | ||||||||
| 1873 | Charles Hedrick (D) | Henry Mason Mathews (D) | 21 D, 3 R | 43 D, 19 R, 3 ? | 2 D, 1 R | ||||||
| 1874 | |||||||||||
| 1875 | 19 D, 4 R, 1 I | 49 D, 12 R, 4 I | Allen T. Caperton (D) | 3 D | |||||||
| 1876 | Sobieski Brady (D) | Samuel Price (D) | Tilden/Hendricks (D)
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| 1877 | Henry M. Mathews (D) | Sobieski Brady (D) | Robert White (D) | Joseph S. Miller (D) | Thomas J. West (D) | 19 D, 5 R | 46 D, 19 R | Frank Hereford (D) | 3 D | ||
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| 1879 | 21 D, 2 R, 1 G | 40 D, 17 G, 8 R | 3 D | ||||||||
| 1880 | Hancock/English (D)
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| 1881 | Jacob B. Jackson (D) | Randolph Stalnaker (D) | Cornelius C. Watts (D) | Thomas O'Brien (D) | 20 D, 3 R, 1 G | 46 D, 17 R, 2 G | Johnson N. Camden (D) | 3 D | |||
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| 1883 | 17 D, 8 R, 1 G | 38 D, 27 R | John E. Kenna (D) | 3 D, 1 R | |||||||
| 1884 | Cleveland/Hendricks (D)
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| 1885 | Emanuel Willis Wilson (D)[lower-alpha 4] | Henry S. Walker (D) | Alfred Caldwell (D) | Patrick Fee Duffy (D) | William T. Thompson (D) | 15 D, 11 R | 37 D, 28 R | 3 D, 1 R | |||
| 1886 | |||||||||||
| 1887 | 14 D, 12 R | 36 D, 29 R | Charles James Faulkner (D) | 3 D, 1 R | |||||||
| 1888 | Cleveland/Thurman (D)
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| 1889 | 12 D, 13 R, 1 Union Lab.[lower-alpha 5] | 34 D, 31 R | 2 D, 2 R | ||||||||
| 1890 | Aretas B. Fleming (D) | William A. Ohley (D)[lower-alpha 6] | |||||||||
| 1891 | 16 D, 10 R | 44 D, 21 R | 4 D | ||||||||
| 1892 | Cleveland/Stevenson (D)
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| 1893 | William A. MacCorkle (D) | William E. Chilton (D) | Thomas S. Riley (D) | Isaac V. Johnson (D) | John M. Rowan (D) | 21 D, 5 R | 41 D, 30 R | Johnson N. Camden (D) | 4 D | ||
| 1894 | |||||||||||
| 1895 | 14 R, 12 D | 49 R, 22 D | Stephen Benton Elkins (R) | 4 R | |||||||
| 1896 | McKinley/Hobart (R)
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| 1897 | George W. Atkinson (R) | William M. O. Dawson (R) | Edgar P. Rucker (R) | Latelle M. LaFollette Sr. (R) | M. A. Kendall (R) | 20 R, 5 D, 1 P | 40 R, 31 D | 3 R, 1 D | |||
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| 1899 | 17 R, 9 D | 37 D, 33 R, 1 ? | Nathan Bay Scott (R) | 4 R | |||||||
| Year | Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Auditor | Treasurer | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
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20th century through 1949
| Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | |||||||
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| Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Auditor | Treasurer | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House | ||
| 1900 | George W. Atkinson (R) | William M. O. Dawson (R) | Edgar P. Rucker (R) | Latelle M. LaFollette Sr. (R) | M. A. Kendall (R) | 17 R, 9 D | 37 D, 33 R, 1 ? | Nathan Bay Scott (R) | Stephen Benton Elkins (R) | 4 R | McKinley/Roosevelt (R)
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| 1901 | Albert B. White (R) | Romeo H. Freer (R) | Arnold C. Scherr (R) | Peter Silman (R) | 18 R, 8 D | 45 R, 26 D | 4 R | ||||
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| 1903 | 24 R, 6 D | 57 R, 29 D | 4 R | ||||||||
| 1904 | Roosevelt/Fairbanks (R)
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| 1905 | William M. O. Dawson (R) | Charles Wesley Swisher (R) | Clark W. May (R) | Newton Ogden (R) | 25 R, 5 D | 61 R, 25 D | 3 R, 1 D | ||||
| 1906 | |||||||||||
| 1907 | 60 R, 25 D, 1 Proh. | 5 R | |||||||||
| 1908 | William G. Conley (R) | Taft/Sherman (R)
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| 1909 | William E. Glasscock (R) | Stuart F. Reed (R) | John S. Darst (R) | E. Leslie Long (R) | 24 R, 6 D | 60 R, 26 D | 5 R | ||||
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| 1911 | 15 R, 15 D[lower-alpha 7] | 63 D, 23 R | William Edwin Chilton (D) | Davis Elkins (R) Jan 1911 and Clarence W. Watson (D) Feb 1911 – Mar 1913 |
4 D, 1 R | ||||||
| 1912 | Wilson/Marshall (D)
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| 1913 | Henry D. Hatfield (R) | A. A. Lilly (R) | 53 R, 33 D | Nathan Goff, Jr. (R) | 4 R, 2 D | ||||||
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| 1915 | 21 R, 9 D | 56 R, 27 D, 3 Fus. | 4 D, 2 R | ||||||||
| 1916 | Hughes/Fairbanks (R)
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| 1917 | John J. Cornwell (D) | Houston G. Young (R) | Edward T. England (R) | W. S. Johnson (R) | 20 R, 10 D | 52 D, 42 R | Howard Sutherland (R) | 5 R, 1 D | |||
| 1918 | |||||||||||
| 1919 | 23 R, 7 D | 70 R, 24 D | Davis Elkins (R) | 5 R, 1 D | |||||||
| 1920 | Harding/Coolidge (R)
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| 1921 | Ephraim F. Morgan (R) | John C. Bond (R) | 26 R, 4 D | 73 R, 21 D | 6 R | ||||||
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| 1923 | 19 R, 11 D | 65 D, 29 R | Matthew Mansfield Neely (D) | 4 D, 2 R | |||||||
| 1924 | Coolidge/Dawes (R)
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| 1925 | Howard M. Gore (R) | George W. Sharp (R) | Howard B. Lee (R) | 16 R, 14 D | 55 R, 39 D | Guy Despard Goff (R) | 6 R | ||||
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| 1927 | Sam T. Mallison | 21 R, 9 D | 60 R, 33 D, 1 Sq. Deal | 5 R, 1 D | |||||||
| 1928 | Hoover/Curtis (R)
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| 1929 | William G. Conley (R) | Edgar C. Lawson (R) | 24 R, 6 D | 63 R, 31 D | Henry Drury Hatfield (R) | 5 R, 1 D | |||||
| 1930 | |||||||||||
| 1931 | 17 R, 13 D | 68 D, 26 R | Matthew M. Neely (D) | 4 R, 2 D | |||||||
| 1932 | Roosevelt/Garner (D)
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| 1933 | Herman G. Kump (D) | William Smith O'Brien (D) | Homer A. Holt (D) | Edgar B. Simms (D) | Richard E. Talbott (D) | 24 D, 6 R | 79 D, 15 R | 6 D | |||
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| 1935 | 82 D, 12 R | Rush D. Holt Sr. (D) | 6 D | ||||||||
| 1936 | Roosevelt/Garner (D)
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| 1937 | Homer A. Holt (D) | Clarence W. Meadows (D) | 72 D, 22 R | 6 D | |||||||
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| 1939 | 27 D, 5 R | 70 D, 24 R | 5 D, 1 R | ||||||||
| 1940 | Roosevelt/Wallace (D)
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| 1941 | Matthew M. Neely (D) | 26 D, 6 R | 74 D, 20 R | Harley Marin Kilgore (D) | Joseph Rosier (D) Jan 1941 – Nov 1942 and Hugh I. Shott (R) Nov 1942 – Jan 1943 |
6 D | |||||
| 1942 | William S. Wysong (D) | ||||||||||
| 1943 | James Kay Thomas (D)[lower-alpha 6] | 21 D, 11 R | 50 D, 44 R | William Chapman Revercomb (R) | 4 D, 2 R | ||||||
| 1944 | Roosevelt/Truman (D)
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| 1945 | Clarence W. Meadows (D) | Ira J. Partlow (D) | 65 D, 29 R | 5 D, 1 R | |||||||
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| 1947 | 20 D, 12 R | 56 D, 38 R | 4 R, 2 D | ||||||||
| 1948 | D. Pitt O'Brien (D)[lower-alpha 6] | Truman/Barkley (D)
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| 1949 | Okey L. Patteson (D) | William C. Marland (D) | 78 D, 16 R | Matthew M. Neely (D) | 6 D | ||||||
| Year | Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Auditor | Treasurer | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
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20th century 1950-1999
| Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | ||||||||
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| Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Auditor | Treasurer | Agriculture Commissioner | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House | ||
| 1950 | Okey L. Patteson (D) | D. Pitt O'Brien (D)[lower-alpha 6] | William C. Marland (D) | Edgar B. Simms (D) | William H. Ansel, Jr. (D) | 20 D, 12 R | 78 D, 16 R | Harley Marin Kilgore (D) | Matthew M. Neely (D) | 6 D | Truman/Barkley (D)
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| 1951 | 67 D, 27 R | 6 D | ||||||||||
| 1952 | Chauncey H. Browning, Sr. (D) | Stevenson/Sparkman (D)
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| 1953 | William C. Marland (D) | John G. Fox (D) | 22 D, 10 R | 67 D, 33 R | 5 D, 1 R | |||||||
| 1954 | ||||||||||||
| 1955 | 23 D, 9 R | 76 D, 24 R | ||||||||||
| 1956 | William Ramsey Laird III (D) | Eisenhower/Nixon (R)
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| 1957 | Cecil H. Underwood (R) | Helen F. Holt (R) | William Wallace Barron (D) | Orel J. Skeen (D) | 21 D, 11 R | 58 D, 42 R | William Chapman Revercomb (R) | |||||
| 1958 | Joe F. Burdett (D)[lower-alpha 6] | John D. Hoblitzell, Jr. (R) | ||||||||||
| 1959 | 23 D, 9 R | 85 D, 15 R | Robert Byrd (D) | Jennings Randolph (D) | ||||||||
| 1960 | Litz McGuire (R) | Kennedy/Johnson (D)
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| 1961 | William Wallace Barron (D) | C. Donald Robertson (D) | Denzil L. Gainer (D) | John H. Kelly (D) | 25 D, 7 R | 82 D, 18 R | ||||||
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| 1963 | 23 D, 9 R | 76 D, 24 R | 4 D, 1 R | |||||||||
| 1964 | Johnson/Humphrey (D)
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| 1965 | Hulett C. Smith (D) | Robert D. Bailey, Jr. (D) | Gus Douglass (D) | 27 D, 7 R | 91 D, 9 R | |||||||
| 1966 | ||||||||||||
| 1967 | 25 D, 9 R | 65 D, 35 R | ||||||||||
| 1968 | Humphrey/Muskie (D)
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| 1969 | Arch A. Moore, Jr. (R) | Jay Rockefeller (D) | Chauncey H. Browning, Jr. (D) | 22 D, 12 R | 63 D, 37 R | |||||||
| 1970 | ||||||||||||
| 1971 | 23 D, 11 R | 68 D, 32 R | 5 D | |||||||||
| 1972 | Edgar F. Heiskell, III (R)[lower-alpha 6] | John M. Gates (R) | Nixon/Agnew (R)
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| 1973 | 24 D, 10 R | 57 D, 43 R | 4 D | |||||||||
| 1974 | ||||||||||||
| 1975 | James R. McCartney (R) | Ronald G. Pearson (R) | 26 D, 8 R | 87 D, 13 R | ||||||||
| 1976 | Carter/Mondale (D)
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| 1977 | Jay Rockefeller (D) | A. James Manchin (D) | Glen Gainer, Jr. (D) | Larrie Bailey (D) | 28 D, 6 R | 91 D, 9 R | ||||||
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| 1979 | 26 D, 8 R | 74 D, 26 R | ||||||||||
| 1980 | Carter/Mondale (D)
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| 1981 | 27 D, 7 R | 78 D, 22 R | 2 R, 2 D | |||||||||
| 1982 | ||||||||||||
| 1983 | 31 D, 3 R | 87 D, 13 R | 4 D | |||||||||
| 1984 | Reagan/Bush (R)
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| 1985 | Arch A. Moore, Jr. (R) | Ken Hechler (D) | Charlie Brown (D) | A. James Manchin (D) | 30 D, 4 R | 73 D, 27 R | Jay Rockefeller (D) | |||||
| 1986 | ||||||||||||
| 1987 | 28 D, 6 R | 78 D, 22 R | ||||||||||
| 1988 | Dukakis/Bentsen (D)
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| 1989 | Gaston Caperton (D) | Roger W. Tompkins (D) | Thomas E. Loehr (D) | Cleve Benedict (R) | 29 D, 5 R | 79 D, 21 R | ||||||
| 1990 | Mario Palumbo (D)[lower-alpha 6] | |||||||||||
| 1991 | Larrie Bailey (D) | 33 D, 1 R | 74 D, 26 R | |||||||||
| 1992 | Clinton/Gore (D)
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| 1993 | Darrell McGraw (D) | Glen Gainer III (D) | Gus Douglass (D) | 32 D, 2 R | 79 D, 21 R | 3 D | ||||||
| 1994 | ||||||||||||
| 1995 | 26 D, 8 R | 69 D, 31 R | ||||||||||
| 1996 | Clinton/Gore (D)
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| 1997 | Cecil H. Underwood (R) | John Perdue (D) | 25 D, 9 R | 74 D, 26 R | ||||||||
| 1998 | ||||||||||||
| 1999 | 29 D, 5 R | 75 D, 25 R | ||||||||||
| Year | Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Auditor | Treasurer | Agriculture Commissioner | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
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21st century
| Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | ||||||||
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| Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Auditor | Treasurer | Agriculture Commissioner | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House | ||
| 2000 | Cecil H. Underwood (R) | Ken Hechler (D) | Darrell McGraw (D) | Glen Gainer III (D) | John Perdue (D) | Gus Douglass (D) | 29 D, 5 R | 75 D, 25 R | Robert Byrd (D) | Jay Rockefeller (D) | 3 D | Bush/Cheney (R)
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| 2001 | Bob Wise (D) | Joe Manchin (D) | 28 D, 6 R | 2 D, 1 R | ||||||||
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| 2003 | 24 D, 10 R | 68 D, 32 R | ||||||||||
| 2004 | Bush/Cheney (R)
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| 2005 | Joe Manchin (D) | Betty Ireland (R) | 21 D, 13 R | |||||||||
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| 2007 | 23 D, 11 R | 72 D, 28 R | ||||||||||
| 2008 | McCain/Palin (R)
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| 2009 | Natalie Tennant (D) | 26 D, 8 R | 71 D, 29 R | |||||||||
| 2010 | Carte Goodwin (D) | |||||||||||
| 2011 | Earl Ray Tomblin (D) | 28 D, 6 R | 65 D, 35 R | Joe Manchin (D) | 2 R, 1 D | |||||||
| 2012 | Romney/Ryan (R)
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| 2013 | Patrick Morrisey (R) | Walt Helmick (D) | 25 D, 9 R | 54 D, 46 R | ||||||||
| 2014 | 24 D, 10 R | 53 D, 47 R | ||||||||||
| 2015 | 18 R, 16 D | 64 R, 36 D | Shelley Moore Capito (R) | 3 R | ||||||||
| 2016 | Lisa Hopkins (D) | Trump/Pence (R)
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| 2017 | Jim Justice (D) | Mac Warner (R) | J.B. McCuskey (R) | Kent Leonhardt (R) | 22 R, 12 D | 64 R, 36 D[lower-alpha 8] | ||||||
| Jim Justice (R)[lower-alpha 9] | ||||||||||||
| 2018 | ||||||||||||
| 2019 | 20 R, 14 D | 57 R, 43 D | ||||||||||
| 2020 | Trump/Pence (R)
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| 2021 | Riley Moore (R) | 23 R, 11 D | 76 R, 24 D | |||||||||
| Year | Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Auditor | Treasurer | Agriculture Commissioner | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
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Notes
- Resigned to run for the United States Senate, winning election.
- As president of the state Senate, filled unexpired term for 7 days.
- Appointed.
- Did not run for re-election in 1888, but due to the election's being disputed, remained in office until the investigation was complete.
- The Union Labor candidate supported a Democratic Senate Presidency.
- Elected to fill unexpired term.
- During the 1911-12 sessions, Republicans held the Senate Presidency under Henry D. Hatfield while each party controlled half the committees; During the 1913-14 sessions, Democrats held the Senate Presidency under Samuel V. Woods, while Republicans were able to select their choice of Sergeant-at-Arms and Clerk and control of all committees.[5]
- Rep. Rupert Phillips left the Democratic Party to become an Independent before the start of the session.[6] He changed to a Republican in May 2017 to run for Congress.[7]
- Justice announced on August 3, 2017, that he was switching his party registration from Democrat to Republican.[8]
References
- "West Virginia State Auditors". WVCulture.org. Archived from the original on 2012-09-29. Retrieved 2011-01-03.
- "West Virginia State Treasurers". WVCulture.org. Archived from the original on 2011-11-16. Retrieved 2011-01-03.
- Educational Publications Manual, State of West Virginia Legislature
- "Van Winkle - Biographical Information". Bioguide.Congress.gov. Retrieved 2011-01-03.
- http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/20160120/wv-has-a-brief-colorful-history-of-deadlocked-senates
- Johnson, Shauna (January 26, 2017). "Logan County delegate leaves Democratic Party". WV MetroNews. West Virginia. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
- Marks, Rusty (May 11, 2017). "Democrat-turned-independent Rupie Phillips goes Republican to run for Congress". The State Journal. Retrieved June 28, 2017.
- Kabler, Phil (August 3, 2017). "WV Gov. Justice switching political parties, returning to GOP". Charleston Gazette. Retrieved August 4, 2017.
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