How West Virginia has voted since 1960
West Virginia has 4 electoral votes in 2028. Since 1960 it has voted Democratic 8 times and Republican 9 times. It has backed the national winner in 11 of 17 elections. Donald Trump carried it in 2024 by 41.9 points, 40.4 points more Republican than the nation. In 2024, 55.6% of its eligible voters cast a ballot, ranking 48th among the 50 states and DC (nationally, 64.3%). It has voted Republican in every election since 2000. Its closest result was in 1980, when Jimmy Carter won it by 4.5 points.
- 1960Kennedy+5.5
- 1964Johnson+35.9
- 1968Humphrey+8.8
- 1972Nixon+27.2
- 1976Carter+16.1
- 1980Carter+4.5
- 1984Reagan+10.5
- 1988Dukakis+4.7
- 1992Clinton+13.0
- 1996Clinton+14.8
- 2000Bush+6.3
- 2004Bush+12.9
- 2008McCain+13.1
- 2012Romney+26.8
- 2016Trump+42.2
- 2020Trump+38.9
- 2024Trump+41.9
Each box is one election: the winner in West Virginia and the margin in points. Darker boxes were won by 10 points or more, lighter by under 5.
Election night
7:30 p.m. ET
Polls close at 7:30 p.m. ET.
Also closing at 7:30 p.m. ET: NC, OH.
Times from the 2024 general election; states rarely change them, and they will be confirmed for 2028.
2028 ratings
- Safe R Electoral Vote Map Sept. 28, 2026
In Congress
Senate
- Shelley Moore Capito (R) since 2015
- James C. Justice (R) since 2025
House: 2 Republicans
All 2 members
- 1 Carol D. Miller (R)
- 2 Riley M. Moore (R)
From Congress.gov, as of Oct. 5, 2026. Vacant seats are not listed.
Margin by election
West Virginia margin National popular vote
By county
Donald Trump won 55 of West Virginia's 55 counties in 2024; Kamala Harris won 0.
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Largest counties, 2024
| County | Votes | Margin | Shift from 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kanawha County | 150,478 | R+8.7 | →D 5.9 |
| Berkeley County | 112,204 | R+17.9 | →D 13.3 |
| Monongalia County | 82,904 | R+2.2 | →R 1.0 |
| Wood County | 74,626 | R+21.5 | →D 20.5 |
| Cabell County | 70,858 | R+10.9 | →D 7.1 |
| Raleigh County | 61,932 | R+27.2 | →D 23.2 |
| Harrison County | 58,990 | R+20.5 | →D 17.2 |
| Jefferson County | 58,312 | R+7.9 | →D 2.6 |
| Putnam County | 55,014 | R+23.2 | →D 19.5 |
| Marion County | 49,268 | R+15.6 | →D 13.1 |
Biggest shifts from 2020 to 2024: toward the Republican, Monongalia County (1.0), Jefferson County (2.6), Kanawha County (5.9); toward the Democrat, Grant County (37.9), Wyoming County (35.6), Ritchie County (35.0) — in points of margin.
County returns from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab (official state data), 2000–2024. Margin is the Democrat's share minus the Republican's, of all votes cast.
Results by year
| Year | Winner | Democrat | Republican | Other | Margin | Nation | Turnout | EV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Donald TrumpTrump | Harris 28.1%214,309 | Trump 70.0%533,556 | 1.9% | R+41.9 | R+1.5 | 55.6% | 4 |
| 2020 | Donald TrumpTrump lost | Biden 29.7%235,984 | Trump 68.6%545,382 | 1.7% | R+38.9 | D+4.5 | 57.2% | 5 |
| 2016 | Donald TrumpTrump | Clinton 26.5%188,794 | Trump 68.6%489,371 | 4.9% | R+42.2 | D+2.1 | 51.4% | 5 |
| 2012 | Mitt RomneyRomney lost | Obama 35.5%238,269 | Romney 62.3%417,655 | 2.2% | R+26.8 | D+3.9 | 47.4% | 5 |
| 2008 | John McCainMcCain lost | Obama 42.6%303,857 | McCain 55.7%397,466 | 1.7% | R+13.1 | D+7.3 | 51.2% | 5 |
| 2004 | George W. BushBush | Kerry 43.2%326,541 | Bush 56.1%423,778 | 0.7% | R+12.9 | R+2.5 | 54.7% | 5 |
| 2000 | George W. BushBush | Gore 45.6%295,497 | Bush 51.9%336,475 | 2.5% | R+6.3 | D+0.5 | 46.7% | 5 |
| 1996 | Bill ClintonClinton | Clinton 51.5%327,812 | Dole 36.8%233,946 | Perot 11.3% | D+14.8 | D+8.5 | 47.1% | 5 |
| 1992 | Bill ClintonClinton | Clinton 48.4%331,001 | Bush 35.4%241,974 | Perot 15.9% | D+13.0 | D+5.6 | 50.1% | 5 |
| 1988 | Michael DukakisDukakis lost | Dukakis 52.2%341,016 | Bush 47.5%310,065 | 0.3% | D+4.7 | R+7.7 | 48.5% | 6* |
| 1984 | Ronald ReaganReagan | Mondale 44.6%328,125 | Reagan 55.1%405,483 | 0.3% | R+10.5 | R+18.2 | 52.9% | 6 |
| 1980 | Jimmy CarterCarter lost | Carter 49.8%367,462 | Reagan 45.3%334,206 | 4.9% | D+4.5 | R+9.7 | 53.5% | 6 |
| 1976 | Jimmy CarterCarter | Carter 58.1%435,864 | Ford 41.9%314,726 | 0.0% | D+16.1 | D+2.1 | — | 6 |
| 1972 | Richard NixonNixon | McGovern 36.4% | Nixon 63.6% | 0.0% | R+27.2 | R+23.2 | — | 6 |
| 1968 | Hubert HumphreyHumphrey lost | Humphrey 49.6% | Nixon 40.8% | Wallace 9.6% | D+8.8 | R+0.7 | — | 7 |
| 1964 | Lyndon B. JohnsonJohnson | Johnson 67.9% | Goldwater 32.1% | 0.0% | D+35.9 | D+22.6 | — | 7 |
| 1960 | John F. KennedyKennedy | Kennedy 52.7% | Nixon 47.3% | 0.0% | D+5.5 | D+0.2 | — | 8 |
Margin is the Democrat's share minus the Republican's, in percentage points; Nation is the same for the national popular vote. "Other" is everyone else combined, or the leading third-party candidate where one took 5% or more. Vote counts from 1976. Turnout is ballots cast as a share of eligible voters, from 1980 (UF Election Lab; the newest year is preliminary).
- 1988: One Democratic elector, Margarette Leach, voted for Lloyd Bentsen for president and Michael Dukakis for vice president.
Electoral votes
Electoral votes change after each census, when House seats are reapportioned.
- 819601950 census
- 71964–19681960 census
- 61972–19801970 census
- 61984–19881980 census
- 51992–20001990 census
- 52004–20082000 census
- 52012–20202010 census
- 42024–20282020 census
- 42032–2040projected
Projected: West Virginia's share of House seats after the 2030 census if each state's population keeps changing at its pace since 2020, from the Census Bureau's 2024 American Community Survey population estimates (July 1, 2024). If the count were taken today it would have 4. An estimate, not a forecast.
Before 1960
West Virginia cast electoral votes in 24 presidential elections before 1960, the first in 1864. It backed the eventual president in 19 of them. West Virginia split from Virginia during the Civil War and became a state in 1863.
| Year | Carried by | Electors | Margin | Backed winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican | 8 | +8.2 | ✓ |
| 1952 | Adlai Stevenson Democratic | 8 | +3.8 | – |
| 1948 | Harry S. Truman Democratic | 8 | +15.2 | ✓ |
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic | 8 | +9.8 | ✓ |
| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic | 8 | +14.2 | ✓ |
| 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic | 8 | +21.4 | ✓ |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic | 8 | +10.1 | ✓ |
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover Republican | 8 | +17.5 | ✓ |
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge Republican | 8 | +5.4 | ✓ |
| 1920 | Warren G. Harding Republican | 8 | +12.2 | ✓ |
| 1916 | Charles Evans Hughes RepublicanSplit: Hughes 7, Wilson 1 | 8 | +1.0 | – |
| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson Democratic | 8 | +12.9 | ✓ |
| 1908 | William Howard Taft Republican | 7 | +10.6 | ✓ |
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt Republican | 7 | +13.6 | ✓ |
| 1900 | William McKinley Republican | 6 | +9.6 | ✓ |
| 1896 | William McKinley Republican | 6 | +5.5 | ✓ |
| 1892 | Grover Cleveland Democratic | 6 | +2.5 | ✓ |
| 1888 | Grover Cleveland Democratic | 6 | +0.3 | – |
| 1884 | Grover Cleveland Democratic | 6 | +3.2 | ✓ |
| 1880 | Winfield S. Hancock Democratic | 5 | +10.8 | – |
| 1876 | Samuel J. Tilden Democratic | 5 | +14.8 | – |
| 1872 | Ulysses S. Grant Republican | 5 | +4.5 | ✓ |
| 1868 | Ulysses S. Grant Republican | 5 | +17.7 | ✓ |
| 1864 | Abraham Lincoln Republican | 5 | +36.5 | ✓ |
Margin: the winner's lead over the runner-up in the state's popular vote, in points. A dash means the legislature chose the electors (common before the 1830s) or no popular vote is on record. Each year links to that election's map and full results.