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West Virginia's at-large congressional district existed between 1913 and 1917, during a period when the state failed to enact a redistricting plan that allowed for a new sixth district. Such a plan was adopted for the 1916 elections , making the at-large seat obsolete.
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]
District 13 was added. When Mingo County split off from Logan County in 1895, it remained in District 7. [5] [6] 1901 District boundaries as defined by House bill No. 235. Districts 14 and 15 were added. [7] 1937 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 ...
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
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.
Responding to the census results, the state legislature adopted a new map for the 2022 elections and the following 10 years. It abandoned the practice used since the formation of the state of starting the numbering in the north, and rather divided the state in a northern and southern district, with the 1st being the more southerly one.
The district overlaps with the state's 1st, 2nd, and 3rd congressional districts, and with the 32nd, 41st, 43rd, 44th, 45th, 46th, 54th, and 55th districts of the West Virginia House of Delegates. [5] It borders the state of Virginia. At over 4,400 square miles, it is by far the largest district in the Senate. [1]
West Virginia gained a sixth seat in the United States House of Representatives after the 1910 census, but failed to adopt a new redistricting plan immediately. In 1912 and 1914, the state elected Howard Sutherland at-large from the entire state, in addition to its five districted representatives.