List of West Virginia Senate districts

West Virginia's Senate districts since 2021
Current composition of the West Virginia Senate as of May 2024
  2 Democrats
  2 Republicans
  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.

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.

District Party Member
up 2026
(Home county)[1] 		Party Member
up 2024
(Home county)[1] 		District map Counties represented[2] 2022
result
1st Republican Laura Chapman
(Ohio) 		Republican Ryan Weld
(Brooke) 		Brooke
Hancock
Marshall
Ohio 		R+21.0
2nd Republican Charles H. Clements
(Wetzel) 		Republican Mike Maroney
(Marshall) 		Doddridge
Marion
Marshall
Monongalia
Wetzel
Tyler 		R+25.0
3rd Republican Mike Azinger
(Wood) 		Republican Donna Boley
(Pleasants) 		Pleasants
Ritchie
Wirt
Wood 		R+31.4
4th Republican Eric Tarr
(Putnam) 		Republican Amy Grady
(Mason) 		Cabell
Jackson
Mason
Putnam 		R+100.0
5th Democratic Mike Woelfel
(Cabell) 		Democratic Robert H. Plymale
(Wayne) 		Cabell
Wayne 		D+8.0
6th Republican Mark R. Maynard
(Wayne) 		Republican Chandler Swope
(Mercer) 		McDowell
Mercer
Mingo
Wayne 		R+46.8
7th Republican Michael B. Stuart
(Kanawha) 		Republican Rupie Phillips
(Logan) 		Boone
Kanawha
Lincoln
Logan 		R+16.4
8th Republican Mark Hunt
(Kanawha) 		Republican Glenn Jeffries
(Putnam) 		Clay
Jackson
Kanawha
Putnam
Roane 		R+13.6
9th Republican Rollan Roberts
(Raleigh) 		Republican David Stover
(Wyoming) 		Fayette
Raleigh
Wyoming 		R+56.2
10th Republican Vince Deeds
(Greenbrier) 		Republican Jack Woodrum
(Summers) 		Fayette
Greenbrier
Monroe
Nicholas
Summers 		R+20.8
11th Republican Bill Hamilton
(Upshur) 		Republican Robert L. Karnes
(Randolph) 		Barbour
Braxton
Pendleton
Pocahontas
Randolph
Upshur
Webster 		R+100.0
12th Republican Ben Queen
(Harrison) 		Republican Patrick S. Martin
(Lewis) 		Calhoun
Gilmer
Harrison
Lewis
Taylor 		R+37.4
13th Republican Mike Oliverio
(Monongalia) 		Democratic Mike Caputo
(Marion) 		Marion
Monongalia 		R+0.6
14th Republican Jay Taylor
(Tucker) 		Republican Randy Smith
(Morgan) 		Grant
Hardy
Mineral
Preston
Taylor
Tucker 		R+52.4
15th Republican Charles S. Trump
(Morgan) 		Republican Craig Blair
(Berkeley) 		Berkeley
Hampshire
Morgan 		R+60.8
16th Republican Jason Barrett
(Berkeley) 		Republican Patricia Rucker
(Jefferson) 		Berkeley
Jefferson 		R+21.0
17th Republican Tom Takubo
(Kanawha) 		Republican Eric Nelson
(Kanawha) 		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 adopted Statewide map Notes Ref
1861 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 District boundaries as they were defined during the second West Virginia Constitutional Convention in 1872. District 12 was added. [4]
1891 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 within District 8 in Kanawha County. District boundaries otherwise remain unchanged. [9]
1982 Individual counties are split between multiple districts for the first time. [10]
1992
2001
2011 District 8 and 17 are separated. [11]
2021 Current boundaries as of May 2024. [12]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Members of the Senate". WV Legislature. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
  2. ^ "2020 REDISTRICTING" (PDF). wvlegislature.gov. 2021.
  3. ^ Harris, John T. (20 April 1916). West Virginia LEGISLATIVE HAND BOOK and MANUAL AND Official Register 1916 (PDF) (1st ed.). Charleston, WV: West Virginia Legislature. p. 291. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
  4. ^ Harris, John T. (20 April 1916). West Virginia LEGISLATIVE HAND BOOK and MANUAL AND Official Register 1916 (PDF) (1st ed.). Charleston, WV: West Virginia Legislature. p. 323. Retrieved 9 May 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 2024.
  8. ^ Lively, Charles (21 December 1938). WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK 1936 (PDF) (22nd ed.). Charleston, WV: West Virginia Legislature. p. 171. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
  9. ^ Myers, J. Howard (15 December 1965). WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK 1965 (PDF) (48th ed.). Charleston, WV: West Virginia Legislature. p. 228. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
  10. ^ Willis, Todd C. (1 December 1983). WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK 1983 (PDF) (67th ed.). Charleston, WV: West Virginia Legislature. p. 296. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
  11. ^ Barnes, Clark S. WEST VIRGINIA BLUE BOOK 2015–2016 (PDF) (93rd ed.). Charleston, WV: West Virginia Legislature. p. 340. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
  12. ^ "SENATE MAP FINAL" (PDF). WV SOS. Retrieved 9 May 2024.