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District 11 covers all of Nicholas, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Randolph, Upshur, and Webster Counties, as well as some of southern Grant County, in the eastern part of the state. Communities within the district include Richwood , Summersville , Craigsville , Webster Springs , Marlinton , Buckhannon , Elkins , Franklin , and Petersburg .
See live updates of West Virginia election results from the 2024 election, including Senate and House races, state elections and ballot initiatives.
The 2024 West Virginia Democratic presidential primary took place on May 14, 2024, as part of the Democratic Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election. 25 delegates to the Democratic National Convention were allocated to presidential candidates.
The second district as originally formed in 1863 included Taylor, Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Tucker, Barbour, Upshur, Webster, Pocahontas, Randolph, Pendleton, Hardy, Hampshire, Berkeley, and Morgan counties (Jefferson county's status in the state was still in dispute, and Grant and Mineral counties were still part of other counties, but the modern territory of all was also included).
The state of West Virginia has four electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state lost one congressional seat. [ 1 ] Republican Donald Trump easily won West Virginia a third time in 2024, with a 41.9% margin of victory and just under 70% of the vote.
The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections. District boundaries were redrawn to ensure that the districts are apportioned based on data from the 2020 census, which eliminated a congressional district in West Virginia's delegation.
Following the 2020 redistricting cycle, West Virginia lost one seat in the House of Representatives, leaving two seats up for election. Incumbents Carol Miller and Alex Mooney were re-elected to the 1st and 2nd districts respectively, while David McKinley of the old 1st District was defeated by Mooney in a primary.
In the 2014 elections, the West Virginia Republican Party made major gains in West Virginia, capturing one of its two Senate seats, all of its congressional House seats for the first time since 1921, and gained control of both the West Virginia House of Delegates and the West Virginia Senate for the first time in 80 years. [9]