List of West Virginia Senate districts

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West Virginia's Senate districts since 2021
Current composition of the West Virginia Senate as of May 2024
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2 Democrats
2 Republicans
1 Democrat and 1 Republican 86th Legislature WV Senate Map.svg
Current composition of the West Virginia Senate as of May 2024
  2 Democrats
  1 Democrat and 1 Republican

The U.S. state of West Virginia currently has seventeen state senate districts, each represented by two members of the West Virginia Senate.

Contents

Current districts and senators

Each district sends two senators to Charleston. Black lines on the map indicate state and district boundaries, and gray lines indicate county boundaries.

DistrictPartyMember
up 2026
(Home county) [1]
PartyMember
up 2024
(Home county) [1]
District mapCounties represented [2] 2022
result
1stRepublican Laura Chapman
(Ohio)
Republican Ryan Weld
(Brooke)
Wvsen1.svg Brooke
Hancock
Marshall
Ohio
R+21.0
2ndRepublican Charles H. Clements
(Wetzel)
Republican Mike Maroney
(Marshall)
Wvsen2.svg Doddridge
Marion
Marshall
Monongalia
Wetzel
Tyler
R+25.0
3rdRepublican Mike Azinger
(Wood)
Republican Donna Boley
(Pleasants)
Wvsen3.svg Pleasants
Ritchie
Wirt
Wood
R+31.4
4thRepublican Eric Tarr
(Putnam)
Republican Amy Grady
(Mason)
Wvsen4.svg Cabell
Jackson
Mason
Putnam
R+100.0
5thDemocratic Mike Woelfel
(Cabell)
Democratic Robert H. Plymale
(Wayne)
Wvsen5.svg Cabell
Wayne
D+8.0
6thRepublican Mark R. Maynard
(Wayne)
Republican Chandler Swope
(Mercer)
Wvsen6.svg McDowell
Mercer
Mingo
Wayne
R+46.8
7thRepublican Michael B. Stuart
(Kanawha)
Republican Rupie Phillips
(Logan)
Wvsen7.svg Boone
Kanawha
Lincoln
Logan
R+16.4
8thRepublican Mark Hunt
(Kanawha)
Republican Glenn Jeffries
(Putnam)
Wvsen8.svg Clay
Jackson
Kanawha
Putnam
Roane
R+13.6
9thRepublican Rollan Roberts
(Raleigh)
Republican David Stover
(Wyoming)
Wvsen9.svg Fayette
Raleigh
Wyoming
R+56.2
10thRepublican Vince Deeds
(Greenbrier)
Republican Jack Woodrum
(Summers)
Wvsen10.svg Fayette
Greenbrier
Monroe
Nicholas
Summers
R+20.8
11thRepublican Bill Hamilton
(Upshur)
Republican Robert L. Karnes
(Randolph)
Wvsen11.svg Barbour
Braxton
Pendleton
Pocahontas
Randolph
Upshur
Webster
R+100.0
12thRepublican Ben Queen
(Harrison)
Republican Patrick S. Martin
(Lewis)
Wvsen12.svg Calhoun
Gilmer
Harrison
Lewis
Taylor
R+37.4
13thRepublican Mike Oliverio
(Monongalia)
Democratic Mike Caputo
(Marion)
Wvsen13.svg Marion
Monongalia
R+0.6
14thRepublican Jay Taylor
(Tucker)
Republican Randy Smith
(Morgan)
Wvsen14.svg Grant
Hardy
Mineral
Preston
Taylor
Tucker
R+52.4
15thRepublican Charles S. Trump
(Morgan)
Republican Craig Blair
(Berkeley)
Wvsen15.svg Berkeley
Hampshire
Morgan
R+60.8
16thRepublican Jason Barrett
(Berkeley)
Republican Patricia Rucker
(Jefferson)
Wvsen16.svg Berkeley
Jefferson
R+21.0
17thRepublican Tom Takubo
(Kanawha)
Republican Eric Nelson
(Kanawha)
Wvsen17.svg Kanawha R+17.0

Historical and present district boundaries

Below is a table of West Virginia's state senate district boundary maps, presented chronologically. All redistricting events that took place in West Virginia between 1916 (First publication of the Blue Book) and the current boundaries as of May 2024 are shown.

Legend
  •   District 1
  •   District 2
  •   District 3
  •   District 4
  •   District 5
  •   District 6
  •   District 7
  •   District 8
  •   District 9
  •   District 10
  •   District 11
  •   District 12
  •   District 13
  •   District 14
  •   District 15
  •   District 16
    (From 1937)
  •   District 17
    (From 1964)
Year adoptedStatewide mapNotesElections effective
Before 1916 Wv1916.svg District boundaries as of the publication of the first Blue Book in 1916. [3] ...1916
1918
1920
1922
1924
1926
1928
1930
1932
1934
1936
1937 Wv1937.svg A new District 16 and 2 seats are added in the eastern panhandle of the state. [4] 1938
1940
1942
1944
1946
1948
1950
1951 Wv1951.svg 1952
1954
1956
1958
1960
1962
1964 Wv1964.svg A new District 17 and 2 seats are added within District 8 in Kanawha County. District boundaries otherwise remain unchanged. [5] 1964
1966
1968
1970
1972
1974
1976
1978
1980
1982 Wv1982.svg Individual counties are split between multiple districts for the first time. [6] 1982
1984
1986
1988
1990
1992 Wv1992.svg 1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2001 Wv2001.svg 2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2011 Wv2011.svg District 8 and 17 are separated. [7] 2012
2014
2016
2018
2020
2021 Wv2021.svg Current boundaries as of May 2024. [8] 2022
2024
2026
2028
2030

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