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Congressional districts of West Virginia from 1863 to present. Table of United States congressional district boundary maps in the State of West Virginia, presented chronologically. [3] All redistricting events that took place in West Virginia between 1973 and 2013 are shown.
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).
Also called the Reorganized Government of Virginia, it controlled a contiguous area roughly the same as present-day West Virginia, along with parts of Northern Virginia and Tidewater. The rest of Virginia was under Confederate military control, with a state government in Richmond , and did not send representatives to Congress.
The 2024 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia were held on November 5, 2024, to elect the two U.S. representatives from the State of West Virginia, one from each of the state's two congressional districts.
West Virginia's 1st congressional district is currently located in the southern half of the state. Responding to the census results, the state legislature adopted a new map for the 2022 elections and the following 10 years.
West Virginia's 1st congressional district; West Virginia's 2nd congressional district; West Virginia's 3rd congressional district; West Virginia's 4th congressional district; West Virginia's 5th congressional district; West Virginia's 6th congressional district
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
12th district: 1793–1863 (obsolete since the 1863 move to West Virginia) 13th district: 1793–1863 (obsolete since the 1863 move to West Virginia) 14th district: 1793–1853 (obsolete since the 1850 census) 15th district: 1793–1853 (obsolete since the 1850 census) 16th district: 1793–1843 (obsolete since the 1840 census)