United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia, 2024
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in West Virginia are scheduled on November 5, 2024. Voters will elect two candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's two U.S. House districts. The primary was May 14, 2024. The filing deadline was January 27, 2024.
Partisan breakdown
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from West Virginia | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Republican | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Independent | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- Carol Miller (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
- Chris Reed (Democratic Party)
- Wes Holden (Independent)
- Jim Umberger (Independent) (Write-in)
- A. Warden (Independent) (Write-in)
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Democratic primary candidates
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Republican primary candidates
- Carol Miller (Incumbent) ✔
- Derrick Evans
District 2
General election candidates
- Steven Wendelin (Democratic Party)
- Riley Moore (Republican Party)
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Democratic primary candidates
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Republican primary candidates
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Voting information
- See also: Voting in West Virginia
General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[1]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
Ballot access
The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in West Virginia in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in West Virginia, click here.
| Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Office | Party | Signatures required | Filing fee | Filing deadline | Source |
| West Virginia | U.S. House | Ballot-qualified party | N/A | $1,740.00 | 1/27/2024 | Source |
| West Virginia | U.S. House | Unaffiliated | 1% of votes cast for this office in the last election, but no fewer than 25 | $1,740.00 | 8/1/2024 | Source |
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about competitiveness, presidential election history, and party control in the state.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the state's U.S. House districts.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in West Virginia.
| West Virginia U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office | Districts/ offices |
Seats | Open seats | Candidates | Possible primaries | Contested Democratic primaries | Contested Republican primaries | % of contested primaries | Incumbents in contested primaries | % of incumbents in contested primaries | ||||
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 75.0% | 1 | 100.0% | ||||
| 2022 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 75.0% | 3 | 100.0% | ||||
| 2020 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 66.7% | 2 | 66.7% | ||||
| 2018 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 66.7% | 0 | 0.0% | ||||
| 2016 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 33.3% | 1 | 33.3% | ||||
| 2014 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | 1 | 50.0% | ||||
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in West Virginia in 2024. Information below was calculated on March 5, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Ten candidates filed to run for West Virginia’s two U.S. House districts, including three Democrats and seven Republicans. That’s five candidates per district, lower than the 6.5 candidates who ran in 2022 but higher than the 4.7 candidates who ran in 2020.
One seat was open in 2024, meaning an incumbent was not running for re-election. The other two election cycles this decade in which a House seat was open were 2018 and 2014.
Alexander Mooney (R), the incumbent in the 2nd district, did not file to run for re-election. Instead he ran to represent West Virginia in the U.S. Senate.
Six candidates—one Democrat and five Republicans—ran to replace Mooney in the 2nd district, the most candidates who ran for a district in 2024.
Three primaries—one Democratic and two Republican—were contested. Between 2014 and 2022, an average of 3.2 primaries were contested.
One incumbent—Carol Miller (R)—faced a primary challenger. That’s fewer than in 2022 when three incumbents faced challengers.
Republican and Democratic candidates filed to run in all districts, meaning none were guaranteed to either party.| Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index for West Virginia, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| District | Incumbent | Party | PVI |
| West Virginia's 1st | Carol Miller | R+23 | |
| West Virginia's 2nd | Alexander Mooney | R+22 | |
| 2020 presidential results in congressional districts based on 2024 district lines, West Virginia[5] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | Joe Biden |
Donald Trump | ||
| West Virginia's 1st | 28.8% | 69.7% | ||
| West Virginia's 2nd | 30.6% | 67.6% | ||
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of West Virginia's congressional delegation as of May 2024.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from West Virginia | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Republican | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Independent | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 2 | 4 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in West Virginia's top three state executive offices as of May 2024.
| State executive officials in West Virginia, May 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | |
| Secretary of State | |
| Attorney General | |
State legislature
West Virginia State Senate
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 3 | |
| Republican Party | 31 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 34 | |
West Virginia House of Delegates
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 11 | |
| Republican Party | 89 | |
| Independent | 0 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 100 | |
Trifecta control
The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until 2024.
West Virginia Party Control: 1992-2024
Nineteen years of Democratic trifectas • Seven years of Republican trifectas
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D[6] | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| Senate | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| House | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' presidential results by congressional district for 2020, 2016, and 2012," accessed December 15, 2023
- ↑ Gov. Jim Justice switched his registration to Republican on August 4, 2017.
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