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The West Virginia Senate is the upper house of the West Virginia Legislature. There are seventeen senatorial districts. There are seventeen senatorial districts. Each district has two senators who serve staggered four-year terms.
The 2024 West Virginia Senate election was held on November 5, 2024, with 17 of the chamber's 34 seats up for election. This took place alongside elections to the House of Delegates , as well as a number of statewide elected positions and elections to Congress and the Presidency.
[a] This is the first time the Republicans won this Senate seat since 1956. This is the first time since 2014 that Republicans won an open seat. West Virginia will also make one of several states to have a younger senior senator (Shelley Moore Capito) and an older junior senator (Justice).
The West Virginia Senate seat was expected to go back to Republicans from the moment Manchin decided to retire, given the state's deeply conservative politics. The race put Democrats on defense ...
The GOP was on course to begin the 119th Congress with 55 Senate seats as of midnight Wednesday. Republicans take back Senate majority by flipping seats in West Virginia, Ohio: ‘We have a red ...
West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice won the state’s open Senate seat Tuesday, NBC News projects, moving Republicans one step closer to flipping the balance of power in the chamber.
17 of the 34 seats in the West Virginia State Senate will hold elections, including 15 Republican-held seats and two Democratic-held seats. Three incumbents chose not to seek re-election: Republican David Stover and both Democrats Mike Caputo and Robert Plymale. Of the 17 seats up for election, 16 were won by Republican candidates.
A new District 16 and 2 seats are added in the eastern panhandle of the state. [8] 1951 1964 A new District 17 and 2 seats are added within District 8 in Kanawha County. District boundaries otherwise remain unchanged. [9] 1982 Individual counties are split between multiple districts for the first time. [10] 1992 2001 2011