2024 West Virginia House of Delegates election

The 2024 West Virginia House of Delegates elections were on November 5, 2024, alongside elections to the presidency, governorship, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, and other offices. Primary elections were held on May 14, 2024.

Background

Following the 2022 legislative races and party changes in both chambers of the legislature, Democratic presence in state government has been reduced to a historically small level. This has come after roughly a decade of change in the composition of the state government, with the legislature beginning the 2010s with decisive Democratic majorities and ending the decade with Republican ones. This change has been characterized by Democratic to Republican party switches among legislators and other officials, and increasing margins of victory for Republicans over time, as ancestrally Democratic-leaning regions and demographics shift towards the GOP.
In the 2020 Presidential Election, Republican Donald Trump won 94 House of Delegates Districts, and Joe Biden won 6. There are 5 districts that voted for Trump in 2020 which are represented by Democrats going into the 2024 West Virginia House of Delegates Elections: District 5 in Ohio County District 27 in Cabell County ; District 52 in Kanawha County ; District 56 in Kanawha County ; and District 76 in Marion County.

Retiring incumbents

Democrats

District 27: Ric Griffith is retiring to run for State Senate.
District 52: Larry L. Rowe is retiring.
District 76: Joey Garcia is retiring to run for State Senate.

Republicans

District 16: Steve Westfall is retiring to run for Jackson County Commission.
District 20: Geoff Foster is retiring.
District 47: Todd Longanacre is retiring.
District 51: Tom Fast is retiring to run for Fayette County Circuit Court.
District 53: Chris Pritt is retiring to run for State Senate.
District 66: Ty Nestor is retiring to run for Randolph County Circuit Court.
District 73: Amy Summers is retiring.
District 82: Debbie Warner is retiring.
District 96: Eric Householder is retiring to run for State Auditor.
District 97: John Hardy is retiring to run for Berkeley County Commission.

Incumbents defeated

In primary election

Four incumbent representatives, all Republicans, were defeated in the May 14 primary election.

Republicans

District 4: Diana Winzenreid lost nomination to a full term to Bill Flanigan.
District 30: David Adkins lost renomination to Jeff Eldridge.
District 49: Heather Tully lost renomination to Stanley Adkins.
District 91: Don Forsht lost renomination to Joseph de Soto.

Appointments

According to §3-10-5 of West Virginia Code, vacancies in the House of Delegates are filled through appointment by the Governor of one of three candidates chosen by the executive committee of the outgoing member's party. Below is a list of appointments made during the 86th Legislature.

Overview

Close races

Districts where the margin of victory was under 10%:

District 76, 1.94%
District 56, 3.84%
District 100, 6.76%
District 82, 7.88%
District 97, 8.32%
District 67, 9.08%
'''District 57, 9.86%'''

Summary of results

Italics denote an open seat held by the incumbent party; bold text denotes a gain for a party.

List of districts

District 1

Incumbent Pat McGeehan was first elected in 2014.

District 2

Incumbent Mark Zatezalo was first elected in 2014, left the House of Delegates in 2018, and was elected again in 2020.

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District 3

Incumbent Jimmy Willis was first elected in 2022.

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District 4

Incumbent Diana Winzenreid was appointed in 2023. She lost renomination to challenger Bill Flanigan.

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District 5

Incumbent Shawn Fluharty was first elected in 2014.

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District 6

Incumbent Jeffrey Stephens was appointed in 2023.

District 7

Incumbent Charles Sheedy was first elected in 2022.

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District 8

Incumbent David Kelly was first elected in 2018.

District 9

Incumbent Trenton Barnhart was first appointed in 2019.

District 10

Incumbent Bill Anderson was first elected in 1992.

District 11

Incumbent Bob Fehrenbacher was first elected in 2022.

District 12

Incumbent Vernon Criss was first elected in 2016.

District 13

Incumbent Scot Heckert was first elected in 2022.

District 14

Incumbent Dave Foggin was first elected in 2022.

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District 15

Incumbent Erica Moore was appointed in 2023.

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District 16

Incumbent Steve Westfall was first elected in 2012. He is retiring.

District 17

Incumbent Jonathan Pinson was first elected in 2020.

District 18

Incumbent Jim Butler was first elected in 2022.

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District 19

Incumbent Kathie Hess Crouse was first appointed in 2021.

District 20

Incumbent Geoff Foster was first elected in 2014. He is retiring.

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District 21

Incumbent Jarred Cannon was first appointed in 2022.

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District 22

Incumbent Daniel Linville was first elected in 2020.

District 23

Incumbent Evan Worrell was first elected in 2018.

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District 24

Incumbent Patrick Lucas was first elected in 2022.

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District 25

Incumbent Sean Hornbuckle was first elected in 2014.

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District 26

Incumbent Matthew Rohrbach was first elected in 2014.

District 27

Incumbent Ric Griffith was first elected in 2020. He is retiring.

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District 28

Incumbent Ryan Browning was appointed in 2024.

District 29

Incumbent Henry Dillon was first elected in 2022.

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District 30

Incumbent David Adkins was first elected in 2022.

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District 31

Incumbent Margitta Mazzocchi was first elected in 2020.

District 32

Incumbent Josh Holstein was first elected in 2020.

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District 33

Incumbent Jordan Bridges was first elected in 2020.

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District 34

Incumbent Mark Dean was first elected in 2016.

District 35

Incumbent Adam Vance was first elected in 2022.

District 36

Incumbent Stephen Green was appointed in 2024.

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District 37

Incumbent Marty Gearheart was first elected in 2020.

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District 38

Incumbent Joe Ellington was first elected in 2010.

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District 39

Incumbent Doug Smith was first elected in 2020.

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District 40

Incumbent Roy Cooper was first elected in 2012.

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District 41

Incumbent Jordan Maynor was first appointed in 2021.

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District 42

Incumbent Brandon Steele was first elected in 2018.

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District 43

Incumbent Christopher Toney was first elected in 2018.

District 44

Incumbent Carl "Bill" Roop was appointed in 2024.

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District 45

Incumbent Eric Brooks was first elected in 2022.

District 46

Incumbent Jeff Campbell was appointed in 2023. He previously served in the House of Delegates from 2017 to 2020.

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District 47

Incumbent Todd Longanacre was first elected in 2020. He is retiring.

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District 48

Incumbent Tom Clark was appointed in 2024.

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District 49

Incumbent Heather Tully was first appointed in 2020. She lost renomination to challenger Stanley Adkins.

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District 50

Incumbent Elliott Pritt was first elected in 2022.

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District 51

Incumbent Tom Fast was first elected in 2020. He is retiring.

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District 52

Incumbent Larry Rowe was first elected in 1996, before leaving the chamber and returning in 2014. He did not file for re-election.

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District 53

Incumbent Chris Pritt was first elected in 2020. He is retiring.

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District 54

Incumbent Mike Pushkin was first elected in 2014.

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District 55

Incumbent JB Akers was appointed in 2024.

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District 56

Incumbent Kayla Young was first elected in 2020.

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District 57

Incumbent Hollis Lewis was appointed in 2023.

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District 58

Incumbent Walter Hall was first elected in 2022.

District 59

Incumbent Andy Shamblin was first elected in 2022.

District 60

Incumbent Dana Ferrell was first elected in 2020.

District 61

Incumbent Dean Jeffries was first elected in 2018.

District 62

Incumbent Roger Hanshaw was first elected in 2014.

District 63

Incumbent Lori Dittman was first elected in 2022.

District 64

Incumbent Adam Burkhammer was first elected in 2020.

District 65

Incumbent Carl Martin was first elected in 2018.

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District 66

Incumbent Ty Nestor was first elected in 2020. He is retiring.

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District 67

Incumbent Elias Coop-Gonzalez was first elected in 2022.

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District 68

Incumbent Chris Phillips was first elected in 2018.

District 69

Incumbent Keith Marple was first elected in 2022.

District 70

Incumbent Mickey Petitto was first elected in 2022.

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District 71

Incumbent Laura Kimble was first elected in 2020.

District 72

Incumbent Clay Riley was first elected in 2020.

District 73

Incumbent Amy Summers was elected in 2014. She is retiring.

District 74

Incumbent Mike DeVault was first elected in 2022.

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District 75

Incumbent Phil Mallow was first elected in 2020.

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District 76

Incumbent Joey Garcia was first elected in 2020. He is retiring.

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District 77

Incumbent Joe Statler was first elected in 2020.

District 78

Incumbent Geno Chiarelli was first elected in 2022.

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District 79

Incumbent Evan Hansen was first elected in 2018.

District 80

Incumbent John Williams was first elected in 2016.

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District 81

Incumbent Anitra Hamilton was appointed in 2023.

District 82

Incumbent Debbie Warner was first elected in 2022. She is retiring.

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District 83

Incumbent George Street was first elected in 2022.

District 84

Incumbent D. Rolland Jennings was first elected in 2022.

District 85

Incumbent John Paul Hott was first elected in 2018.

District 86

Incumbent Bryan Ward was first elected in 2020.

District 87

Incumbent Gary Howell was first elected in 2010.

District 88

Incumbent Rick Hillenbrand was first elected in 2022.

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District 89

Incumbent Darren Thorne was first elected in 2022.

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District 90

Incumbent George Miller was first elected in 2020.

District 91

Incumbent Don Forsht was first elected in 2020. He lost renomination to challenger Joseph de Soto.