Elections in West Virginia

From the time of the Great Depression through the 1990s, the politics of West Virginia were largely dominated by the Democratic Party. In the 2000 presidential election, George W. Bush claimed a surprise victory over Al Gore, with 52% of the vote; he won West Virginia again in 2004, with 56% of the vote. West Virginia is now a heavily Republican state, with John McCain winning the state in 2008,^[1] Mitt Romney in 2012^[2] and Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020.

Before 2000, West Virginia had voted almost exclusively Democratic in each presidential election starting in 1932, only voting Republican amidst national landslides in 1956, 1972, and 1984. However starting with the 2000 election, West Virginia began a sharp realignment from mostly supporting Democrats to mostly supporting Republicans. By the 2010s, the state had become at the presidential level one of the most Republican in the nation. By 2015, Republicans had gained one of the state's two Senate seats, all its U.S. House seats, and both chambers of the state legislature.

In the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump took an overwhelming victory in West Virginia, garnering 68.5% of the state's vote, his best performance of any state. Despite this, Democratic candidate Jim Justice was elected governor on the same ballot, marking five consecutive Democratic gubernatorial victories in the state. However, seven months into his term, Justice switched affiliation to the Republican Party, leaving Joe Manchin and John Perdue as the only Democrats holding statewide office in West Virginia. In 2020, Trump again carried West Virginia in a landslide, taking 68.6% of the state's vote, only less than longstanding Republican stronghold Wyoming. Perdue lost reelection as State Treasurer after serving six terms, leaving Manchin as the only remaining statewide Democrat until his departure from the party in 2024. Manchin won his last U.S. Senate reelection campaign by 3% in 2018, a sharp decline from his 24% margin of victory in 2012. He has announced that he will not seek reelection in 2024.

In a 2020 study, West Virginia was ranked as the 16th hardest state for citizens to vote in.^[3]

History

United States presidential election results for West Virginia^[4]
Year	Republican		Democratic		Third party
Year	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
2020	545,382	68.62%	235,984	29.69%	13,365	1.68%
2016	489,371	67.85%	188,794	26.18%	43,096	5.98%
2012	417,655	62.14%	238,269	35.45%	16,195	2.41%
2008	397,466	55.58%	303,857	42.49%	13,800	1.93%
2004	423,778	56.06%	326,541	43.20%	5,568	0.74%
2000	336,475	51.92%	295,497	45.59%	16,152	2.49%
1996	233,946	36.76%	327,812	51.51%	74,701	11.74%
1992	241,974	35.39%	331,001	48.41%	110,736	16.20%
1988	310,065	47.46%	341,016	52.20%	2,230	0.34%
1984	405,483	55.11%	328,125	44.60%	2,134	0.29%
1980	334,206	45.30%	367,462	49.81%	36,047	4.89%
1976	314,760	41.93%	435,914	58.07%	0	0.00%
1972	484,964	63.61%	277,435	36.39%	0	0.00%
1968	307,555	40.78%	374,091	49.60%	72,560	9.62%
1964	253,953	32.06%	538,087	67.94%	0	0.00%
1960	395,995	47.27%	441,786	52.73%	0	0.00%
1956	449,297	54.08%	381,534	45.92%	0	0.00%
1952	419,970	48.08%	453,578	51.92%	0	0.00%
1948	316,251	42.24%	429,188	57.32%	3,311	0.44%
1944	322,819	45.11%	392,777	54.89%	0	0.00%
1940 Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Elections_in_West_Virginia Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia. Navigácia: Veda > Analytika Antropológia Aplikované vedy Bibliometria Dejiny vedy Encyklopédie Filozofia vedy Forenzné vedy Humanitné vedy Knižničná veda Kryogenika Kryptológia Kulturológia Literárna veda Medzidisciplinárne oblasti Metódy kvantitatívnej analýzy Metavedy Metodika Metodológia vedy Náboženstvo a veda Náučná literatúra Podvody vo vede Popularizácia vedy Potravinárstvo Prírodné vedy Pseudoveda Scientometria Spoločenské vedy Teórie Teatrológia Technické vedy Technika Terminológia Umenie Výskum Veda Veda a technika podľa štátu Veda a technika podľa kontinentu Veda a technika podľa roka Veda v kozme Vedci Vedecká literatúra Vedecké databázy Vedecké experimenty Vedecké konferencie Vedecké metódy Vedecké ocenenia Vedecké organizácie Vedecké parky Vedeckí spisovatelia Vzdelávanie Záhady Príbuzné výrazy: Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia. www.astronomia.sk \| www.biologia.sk \| www.botanika.sk \| www.dejiny.sk \| www.economy.sk \| www.elektrotechnika.sk \| www.estetika.sk \| www.farmakologia.sk \| www.filozofia.sk \| Fyzika \| www.futurologia.sk \| www.genetika.sk \| www.chemia.sk \| www.lingvistika.sk \| www.politologia.sk \| www.psychologia.sk \| www.sexuologia.sk \| www.sociologia.sk \| www.veda.sk I www.zoologia.sk

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]