Election Results
Donald Trump carried West Virginia with about 70.2% of the vote in the 2024 presidential election.
Democratic presidential vote share
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).
Republican presidential vote share
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).
- •West Virginia has given Republican presidential candidates some of their widest margins of any state since 2000.
Governors
Patrick Morrisey (R) became governor in January 2025 after eight years as attorney general, with Republicans holding supermajorities.
| Governor | Party | In office |
|---|---|---|
| Patrick Morrisey | Republican | 2025–present |
| Earl Ray Tomblin | Democratic | 2015–2017 |
| Joe Manchin III | Democratic | 2005–2010 |
| Bob Wise | Democratic | 2001–2005 |
| Gaston Caperton | Democratic | 1989–1997 |
| John Davison Rockefeller | Democratic | 1977–1985 |
| Hulett Carlson Smith | Democratic | 1965–1969 |
| William W. Barron | Democratic | 1961–1965 |
| William Casey Marland | Democratic | 1953–1957 |
| Okey Leonidas Patteson | Democratic | 1949–1953 |
| Clarence W. Meadows | Democratic | 1945–1949 |
| Matthew Mansfield Neely | Democratic | 1941–1945 |
| Homer Adams Holt | Democratic | 1937–1941 |
| Herman Guy Kump | Democratic | 1933–1937 |
| William Gustavus Conley | Republican | 1929–1933 |
| Howard M. Gore | Republican | 1925–1929 |
| Ephraim Franklin Morgan | Republican | 1921–1925 |
| John Jacob Cornwell | Democratic | 1917–1921 |
| Henry Drury Hatfield | Republican | 1913–1917 |
| William E. Glasscock | Republican | 1909–1913 |
| William M.O. Dawson | Republican | 1905–1909 |
| Albert Blakeslee White | Republican | 1901–1905 |
| George Wesley Atkinson | Republican | 1897–1901 |
| William Alexander MacCorkle | Democratic | 1893–1897 |
| Aretas Brooks Fleming | Democratic | 1890–1893 |
| Henry Mason Mathews | Democratic | 1887–1881 |
| Emanuel Willis Wilson | Democratic | 1885–1890 |
| Jacob Beeson Jackson | Democratic | 1881–1885 |
| William Erskine Stevenson | Republican | 1869–1871 |
| Daniel Duane Tompkins Farnsworth | Republican | 1869–1869 |
Source: National Governors Association, current and former governors.
- •West Virginia swung from a Democratic stronghold to one of the most Republican states in two decades.
Senators
West Virginia is represented in the U.S. Senate by Republicans Shelley Moore Capito and Jim Justice.
Democratic vote share, U.S. Senate elections
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse). Regular-term races; special elections only when no regular race was held. Independents (e.g. caucusing with Democrats) are not counted as Democratic; years without a Democratic nominee are omitted.
Republican vote share, U.S. Senate elections
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).
- •Jim Justice served two terms as West Virginia's governor before winning a U.S. Senate seat in 2024.
Representatives
West Virginia holds two U.S. House seats, both currently held by Republicans.
U.S. House seats apportioned to West Virginia
1910–2020U.S. Census Bureau, decennial apportionment counts.
- •West Virginia lost one of its three U.S. House seats after the 2020 census due to population decline.
Voting Trends
West Virginia has trended decisively Republican in presidential elections, with margins exceeding 40 points in recent cycles.
Total votes cast for president
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).
- •West Virginia voted for Democrat Michael Dukakis in 1988 but has not backed a Democratic presidential nominee since Bill Clinton in 1996.
Party Distribution
Republicans now outnumber Democrats among registered voters in West Virginia, a dramatic reversal from decades past.
- •West Virginia was a reliably Democratic state in voter registration for most of the 20th century before flipping Republican after 2014.