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Date Type Results
Nov 05, 2024 General Election
  Patrick Morrisey
459,300
61.99% 		  Steve Williams
233,976
31.58% 		  Erika Kolenich
21,228
2.87% 		  S. Marshall Wilson
16,828
2.27% 		  Chase Linko-Looper
9,596
1.30% 		  William Allen Meadows (W)
5
0.00% 		  Quintin Caldwell (W)
3
0.00%
   Troy Green (W)
2
0.00%
Nov 03, 2020 General Election
  Jim Justice(I)
497,944
63.49% 		  Ben Salango
237,024
30.22% 		  Erika Kolenich
22,527
2.87% 		  S. Marshall Wilson (W)
15,120
1.93% 		  Daniel Lutz, Jr.
11,309
1.44% 		  Michael "Mike" Folk (W)
199
0.03% 		  Mitch Roberts (W)
152
0.02%
   Kimberly Gross (W)
6
0.00% 		  Quintin Caldwell (W)
6
0.00%
Aug 03, 2017 Party Switch
  Jim Justice(I)
1
100.00%
Nov 08, 2016 General Election
  Jim Justice
350,408
49.09% 		  William Paul "Bill" Cole, III
301,987
42.30% 		  Charlotte Pritt
42,068
5.89% 		  David Moran
15,354
2.15% 		  Phillip Hudok
4,041
0.57%
Nov 06, 2012 General Election
  Earl Ray Tomblin(I)
335,468
50.49% 		  Bill Maloney
303,291
45.64% 		  Jesse C. Johnson
16,791
2.53% 		  David Moran
8,936
1.34% 		  Phillip Hudok (W)
0
0.00%
Oct 04, 2011 Special Election
  Earl Ray Tomblin(I)
149,202
49.56% 		  Bill Maloney
141,656
47.05% 		  Bob Henry Baber
6,083
2.02% 		  Marla Ingels
2,875
0.95% 		  Harry V. Bertram
1,111
0.37% 		  Phillip Hudok (W)
76
0.03% 		  Donald Lee Underwood (W)
54
0.02%
   John R. "Rick" Bartlett (W)
24
0.01%
Nov 15, 2010 Appointment
  Earl Ray Tomblin
1
100.00%
Nov 04, 2008 General Election
  Joe Manchin(I)
492,697
69.78% 		  Russell E. "Russ" Weeks, Jr.
181,612
25.72% 		  Jesse C. Johnson
31,486
4.46% 		  Butch Paugh (W)
234
0.03% 		  James Davis (W)
17
0.00%
Nov 02, 2004 General Election
  Joe Manchin
472,758
63.51% 		  Monty Warner
253,131
34.00% 		  Jesse C. Johnson
18,430
2.48% 		  Simon McClure (W)
114
0.02%
Nov 07, 2000 General Election
  Bob Wise
324,822
50.12% 		  Cecil H. Underwood(I)
305,926
47.21% 		  Denise Giardina
10,416
1.61% 		  Bobbie Edward "Bob" Myers
5,548
0.86% 		  Randall B. Ashelman
1,301
0.20% 		  Lou Davis (W)
34
0.01%
Nov 05, 1996 General Election
  Cecil H. Underwood
324,518
51.63% 		  Charlotte Pritt
287,870
45.80% 		  Wallace Johnson
16,171
2.57%
Nov 03, 1992 General Election
  Gaston Caperton(I)
368,302
56.01% 		  Cleveland K. "Cleve" Benedict
240,390
36.56% 		  Charlotte Pritt (W)
48,873
7.43%
Nov 08, 1988 General Election
  Gaston Caperton
382,421
58.87% 		  Arch A. Moore, Jr.(I)
267,172
41.13%
Nov 06, 1984 General Election
  Arch A. Moore, Jr.
394,937
53.26% 		  Clyde M. See, Jr.
346,565
46.74%
Nov 04, 1980 General Election
  Jay Rockefeller(I)
401,863
54.15% 		  Arch A. Moore, Jr.
337,240
45.44% 		  Jack Kelley
3,047
0.41%
Nov 02, 1976 General Election
  Jay Rockefeller
495,661
66.15% 		  Cecil H. Underwood
253,420
33.82% 		  Unidentified Scattering (W)
189
0.03%
Nov 07, 1972 General Election
  Arch A. Moore, Jr.(I)
423,817
54.74% 		  Jay Rockefeller
350,462
45.26%
Nov 05, 1968 General Election
  Arch A. Moore, Jr.
378,315
50.86% 		  James M. Sprouse
365,530
49.14%
Nov 03, 1964 General Election
  Hulett C. Smith
433,023
54.91% 		  Cecil H. Underwood
355,559
45.09%
Nov 08, 1960 General Election
  William Wallace Barron
446,755
53.99% 		  Harold E. Neely
380,665
46.01%
Nov 06, 1956 General Election
  Cecil H. Underwood
440,502
53.88% 		  Robert H. Mollohan
377,131
46.12%
Nov 04, 1952 General Election
  William Casey Marland
454,898
51.54% 		  Rush D. Holt
427,629
48.46%
Nov 02, 1948 General Election
  Okey Leonidas Patteson
438,752
57.12% 		  Herbert Boreman
329,309
42.88%
Nov 07, 1944 General Election
  Clarence Watson Meadows
395,122
54.44% 		  Daniel Boone Dawson
330,649
45.56%
Nov 05, 1940 General Election
  Matthew M. Neely
496,028
56.38% 		  Daniel Boone Dawson
383,698
43.62%
Nov 03, 1936 General Election
  Homer A. Holt
492,333
59.16% 		  Summers H. Sharp
339,890
40.84%
Nov 08, 1932 General Election
  Herman Guy Kump
402,316
53.77% 		  T. C. Townsend
342,660
45.80% 		  J. H. Snider
2,788
0.37% 		  Miles Stone
452
0.06%
Nov 06, 1928 General Election
  William Gustavus Conley
345,729
53.73% 		  J. Alfred Taylor
296,637
46.10% 		  J. H. Snider
1,124
0.17%
Nov 04, 1924 General Election
  Howard Mason Gore
302,987
52.97% 		  Jacob "Jake" Fisher
261,846
45.77% 		  Albert S. Bosworth
7,218
1.26%
Nov 02, 1920 General Election
  Ephraim Franklin Morgan
242,237
47.32% 		  Arthur B. Koontz
185,662
36.27% 		  Samuel B. Montgomery
81,330
15.89% 		  Mathew S. Holt
2,695
0.53%
Nov 07, 1916 General Election
  John J. Cornwell
143,324
49.54% 		  Ira E. Robinson
140,558
48.59% 		  Mathew S. Holt
5,399
1.87%
Nov 05, 1912 General Election
  Henry Drury Hatfield
128,062
47.74% 		  W. R. Thompson
119,292
44.47% 		  Walter B. Hilton
15,048
5.61% 		  L. Goodloe Jackson
5,870
2.19%
Nov 03, 1908 General Election
  William Ellsworth Glasscock
130,807
50.70% 		  Louis Bennett
118,909
46.09% 		  E.W. Miller
4,967
1.93% 		  Harold W. Houston
3,308
1.28%
Nov 08, 1904 General Election
  William M. O. Dawson
121,540
50.80% 		  John J. Cornwell
112,457
47.00% 		  Joseph W. Bedford
3,999
1.67% 		  John N. Eskey
1,279
0.53%
Nov 06, 1900 General Election
  Albert Blakeslee White
118,798
53.84% 		  John H. Holt
100,233
45.43% 		  T. R. Carskaddon
1,315
0.60% 		  Hubert T. Houston
306
0.14%
Nov 03, 1896 General Election
  George Wesley Atkinson
105,629
52.38% 		  Cornelius C. Watts
93,550
46.39% 		  Thomas C. Johnson
1,202
0.60% 		  Nathan Ward Fitzgerald
1,129
0.56% 		  Others
168
0.08%
Nov 08, 1892 General Election
  William Alexander MacCorkle
84,585
49.37% 		  Thomas E. Davis
80,658
47.08% 		  James Bassett
4,037
2.36% 		  Frank Burt
2,039
1.19% 		  Others
5
0.00%
Nov 06, 1888 General Election
  A. Brooks Fleming
78,798
49.21% 		  Nathan Goff
78,904
49.27% 		  Others
2,437
1.52% 		  T. R. Carskaddon
0
0.00%
Oct 14, 1884 General Election
  Emanuel Willis Wilson
71,408
51.95% 		  Edwin Maxwell
66,059
48.05%
Oct 12, 1880 General Election
  Jacob Beeson Jackson
60,991
51.31% 		  George C. Sturgiss
44,855
37.73% 		  Napoleon B. French
13,027
10.96%
Oct 10, 1876 General Election
  Henry Mason Mathews
56,206
56.20% 		  Nathan Goff
43,477
43.47% 		  James M. Laidley
332
0.33%
Oct 08, 1872 General Election
  John Jeremiah Jacob(I)
42,888
51.55% 		  Johnson N. Camden
40,305
48.45%
Oct 27, 1870 General Election
  John Jeremiah Jacob
29,097
51.94% 		  William Erskine Stevenson(I)
26,924
48.06%
Feb 27, 1869 Appointment
  Daniel Duane Tomkins Farnsworth
1
100.00%
Oct 22, 1868 General Election
  William Erskine Stevenson
26,935
54.64% 		  Johnson N. Camden
22,358
45.36%
Oct 25, 1866 General Election
  Arthur I. Boreman(I)
23,802
58.11% 		  Benjamin H. Smith
17,158
41.89%
Oct 27, 1864 General Election
  Arthur I. Boreman(I)
19,353
100.00%
May 28, 1863 General Election
  Arthur I. Boreman
25,797
100.00%

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