List of West Virginia Senate districts

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West Virginia's Senate districts since 2021 Wv2021.svg
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
1st Republican Laura Chapman
(Ohio)
Republican Ryan Weld
(Brooke)
Wvsen1.svg Brooke
Hancock
Marshall
Ohio
R+21.0
2nd Republican Charles H. Clements
(Wetzel)
RepublicanChris Rose
(Monongalia)
Wvsen2.svg Doddridge
Marion
Marshall
Monongalia
Wetzel
Tyler
R+25.0
3rd Republican Mike Azinger
(Wood)
Republican Donna Boley
(Pleasants)
Wvsen3.svg Pleasants
Ritchie
Wirt
Wood
R+31.4
4th Republican Eric Tarr
(Putnam)
Republican Amy Grady
(Mason)
Wvsen4.svg Cabell
Jackson
Mason
Putnam
R+100.0
5th Democratic Mike Woelfel
(Cabell)
DemocraticScott Fuller
(Wayne)
Wvsen5.svg Cabell
Wayne
D+8.0
6th Republican Mark R. Maynard
(Wayne)
RepublicanCraig A. Hart
(Mingo)
Wvsen6.svg McDowell
Mercer
Mingo
Wayne
R+46.8
7th Republican Michael B. Stuart
(Kanawha)
Republican Rupie Phillips
(Logan)
Wvsen7.svg Boone
Kanawha
Lincoln
Logan
R+16.4
8th RepublicanKevan Bartlett
(Kanawha)
Republican Glenn Jeffries
(Putnam)
Wvsen8.svg Clay
Jackson
Kanawha
Putnam
Roane
R+13.6
9th Republican Rollan Roberts
(Raleigh)
RepublicanBrian Helton
(Fayette)
Wvsen9.svg Fayette
Raleigh
Wyoming
R+56.2
10th Republican Vince Deeds
(Greenbrier)
Republican Jack Woodrum
(Summers)
Wvsen10.svg Fayette
Greenbrier
Monroe
Nicholas
Summers
R+20.8
11th Republican Bill Hamilton
(Upshur)
Republican Robert L. Karnes
(Randolph)
Wvsen11.svg Barbour
Braxton
Pendleton
Pocahontas
Randolph
Upshur
Webster
R+100.0
12th Republican Ben Queen
(Harrison)
Republican Patrick S. Martin
(Lewis)
Wvsen12.svg Calhoun
Gilmer
Harrison
Lewis
Taylor
R+37.4
13th Republican Mike Oliverio
(Monongalia)
DemocraticJoey Garcia
(Marion)
Wvsen13.svg Marion
Monongalia
R+0.6
14th Republican Jay Taylor
(Tucker)
Republican Randy Smith
(Morgan)
Wvsen14.svg Grant
Hardy
Mineral
Preston
Taylor
Tucker
R+52.4
15th RepublicanDarren Thorne
(Morgan)
RepublicanTom Willis
(Berkeley)
Wvsen15.svg Berkeley
Hampshire
Morgan
R+60.8
16th Republican Jason Barrett
(Berkeley)
Republican Patricia Rucker
(Jefferson)
Wvsen16.svg Berkeley
Jefferson
R+21.0
17th Republican Tom Takubo
(Kanawha)
RepublicanAnne Charnock
(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 in 1863 and between 1901 and the current boundaries as of August 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
    (from 1872)
  •   District 13
    (from 1891)
  •   District 14
    (from 1901)
  •   District 15
    (from 1901)
  •   District 16
    (from 1937)
  •   District 17
    (from 1964)
Year adoptedStatewide mapNotesRef
1861 Wv1863.svg District boundaries as they were defined during the first West Virginia Constitutional Convention in 1861. Districts 10 and 11 were planned in the case of other counties joining the state. Only Frederick County in District 11 did not end up joining the state. [3]
1872 Wv1872.svg District boundaries as they were defined during the second West Virginia Constitutional Convention in 1872. District 12 was added. [4]
1891 Wv1891.svg District 13 was added. When Mingo County split off from Logan County in 1895, it remained in District 7. [5] [6]
1901 Wv1916.svg District boundaries as defined by House bill No. 235. Districts 14 and 15 were added. [7]
1937 Wv1937.svg A new District 16 and 2 seats are added in the eastern panhandle of the state. [8]
1951 Wv1951.svg
1964 Wv1964.svg A new District 17 and 2 seats are added within District 8 in Kanawha County. District boundaries otherwise remain unchanged. [9]
1982 Wv1982.svg Individual counties are split between multiple districts for the first time. [10]
1992 Wv1992.svg
2001 Wv2001.svg
2011 Wv2011.svg District 8 and 17 are separated. [11]
2021 Wv2021.svg Current boundaries as of May 2024. [12]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Members of the Senate". WV Legislature. Retrieved May 9, 2024.
  2. "2020 REDISTRICTING" (PDF). wvlegislature.gov. 2021.
  3. Harris, John T. (April 20, 1916). West Virginia LEGISLATIVE HAND BOOK and MANUAL AND Official Register 1916 (PDF) (1st ed.). Charleston, WV: West Virginia Legislature. p. 291. Retrieved May 9, 2024.
  4. Harris, John T. (April 20, 1916). West Virginia LEGISLATIVE HAND BOOK and MANUAL AND Official Register 1916 (PDF) (1st ed.). Charleston, WV: West Virginia Legislature. p. 323. Retrieved May 9, 2024.
  5. Donnally, Moses W. (1891). ACTS PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF WEST VIRGINIA AT ITS TWENTIETH REGULAR SESSION (PDF). Charleston, WV: WV Legislature. p. 205. Retrieved August 28, 2024.
  6. Donnally, Moses W. (1895). ACTS PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF WEST VIRGINIA AT ITS TWENTY-SECOND REGULAR SESSION (PDF). Charleston, WV: WV Legislature. p. 213. Retrieved August 28, 2024.
  7. Donnally, Moses W. (1905). ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF WEST VIRGINIA AT ITS TWENTY-FIFTH REGULAR SESSION (PDF). Charleston, WV: West Virginia Legislature. p. 59. Retrieved August 28, 2024.
  8. Lively, Charles (December 21, 1938). WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK 1936 (PDF) (22nd ed.). Charleston, WV: West Virginia Legislature. p. 171. Retrieved May 9, 2024.
  9. Myers, J. Howard (December 15, 1965). WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK 1965 (PDF) (48th ed.). Charleston, WV: West Virginia Legislature. p. 228. Retrieved May 9, 2024.
  10. Willis, Todd C. (December 1, 1983). WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK 1983 (PDF) (67th ed.). Charleston, WV: West Virginia Legislature. p. 296. Retrieved May 9, 2024.
  11. Barnes, Clark S. WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK 2015–2016 (PDF) (93rd ed.). Charleston, WV: West Virginia Legislature. p. 340. Retrieved May 9, 2024.
  12. "SENATE MAP FINAL" (PDF). WV SOS. Retrieved May 9, 2024.