List of West Virginia Senate districts

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

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

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

• West Virginia Senate

References

1. "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.