2018 West Virginia House of Delegates election

2018 West Virginia House of Delegates elections

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All 100 seats in the West Virginia House of Delegates
51 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
GOP
Leader Roger Hanshaw Tim Miley
Party Republican Democratic
Leader since August 29, 2018 January 7, 2015
Leader's seat 33rd district 48th district
Seats before 63 37
Seats won 59 41
Seat change Decrease4 Increase4
Percentage 50.2% 48.3%

  Third party
 
Party Independent
Seats before 0
Seats won 0
Percentage 1.6%

Seat colors (boxes):

     Democratic gain      Republican gain
     Democratic hold      Republican hold
District colors:
     Majority of members Democratic

     Majority of members Republican
     Split

Speaker before election

Roger Hanshaw
Republican

Elected Speaker

Roger Hanshaw
Republican

Elections to the West Virginia House of Delegates took place on November 6, 2018.[1] All the seats in the West Virginia House of Delegates were up for election.[2]

Overview

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This election saw the Republican Party maintain their majority in the House of Delegates, although they sustained a net loss of 4 seats, being reduced from 63 seats to 59. The Democratic Party saw a net gain of 4 seats, from 37 to 41.

In the first sitting of the 84th legislature in January 2019, Roger Hanshaw was re-elected as Speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates.

Predictions

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Source Ranking As of
Governing[3] Safe R October 8, 2018

Results

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District Representatives
District 1 (2 seats) Pat McGeehan (Republican)

Randy Swartzmiller (Democratic)

District 2 Phil Diserio (Democratic)
District 3 (2 seats) Erikka Lynn Storch (Republican)

Shawn Fluharty (Democratic)

District 4 (2 seats) Joe Canestraro (Democratic)

Lisa Zukoff (Democratic)

District 5 Dave Pethtel (Democratic)
District 6 David Kelly (Republican)
District 7 Jason Harshbarger (Republican)
District 8 Bill Anderson (Republican)
District 9 Ray Hollen (Republican)
District 10 (3 seats) Vernon Criss (Republican)

John R. Kelly (Republican)

Tom Azinger (Republican)

District 11 Martin Atkinson III (Republican)
District 12 Steve Westfall (Republican)
District 13 (2 seats) Joshua Higginbotham (Republican)

Scott Cadle (Republican)

District 14 Jim Butler (Republican)
District 15 Geoff Foster (Republican)
District 16 (3 seats) Sean Hornbuckle (Democratic)

Daniel Linville (Republican)

John Mandt (Republican)

District 17 (2 seats) Matthew Rohrbach (Republican)

Chad Lovejoy (Democratic)

District 18 Evan Worrell (Republican)
District 19 (2 seats) Kenneth Hicks (Democratic)

Robert Thompson (Democratic)

District 20 Nathan Brown (Republican)
District 21 Mark Dean (Republican)
District 22 (2 seats) Zack Maynard (Republican)

Joe Jeffries (Republican)

District 23 Rodney Miller (Democratic)
District 24 (2 seats) Ralph Rodighiero (Democratic)

Ted Tomblin (Democratic)

District 25 Tony Paynter (Republican)
District 26 Ed Evans (Republican)
District 27 (3 seats) Joe Ellington (Republican)

John Shott (Republican)

Eric Porterfield (Republican)

District 28 (2 seats) Roy Cooper (Republican)

Jeffrey Pack (Republican)

District 29 Brandon Steele (Republican)
District 30 Mick Bates (Democratic)
District 31 Chris Toney (Republican)
District 32 (3 seats) Tom Fast (Republican)

Kayla Kessinger (Republican)

Margaret Anne Staggers (Democratic)

District 33 Roger Hanshaw (Republican)
District 34 Brent Boggs (Democratic)
District 35 (4 seats) Moore Capito (Republican)

Eric Nelson (Republican)

Andrew Byrd (Democratic)

Doug Skaff (Democratic)

District 36 (3 seats) Andrew Robinson (Democratic)

Larry Rowe (Democratic)

Amanda Estep-Burton (Democratic)

District 37 Mike Pushkin (Democratic)
District 38 Dianna Graves (Republican)
District 39 Sharon Malcolm (Republican)
District 40 Dean Jeffries (Republican)
District 41 Jordan Hill (Republican)
District 42 (2 seats) Jeff Campbell (Democratic)

Cindy Lavender-Bowe (Democratic)

District 43 (2 seats) William G. Hartman (Democratic)

Cody Thompson (Democratic)

District 44 Caleb Hanna (Republican)
District 45 Carl Martin (Republican)
District 46 Patrick S. Martin (Republican)
District 47 Chris Phillips (Republican)
District 48 (4 seats) Danny Hamrick (Republican)

Ben Queen (Republican)

Terry Waxman (Republican)

Timothy Miley (Democratic)

District 49 Amy Summers (Republican)
District 50 (3 seats) Mike Caputo (Democratic)

Linda Longstreth (Democratic)

Michael Angelucci (Democratic)

District 51 (5 seats) Barbara Fleischauer (Democratic)

Rodney Pyles (Democratic)

John Williams (Democratic)

Evan Hansen (Democratic)

Danielle Walker (Democratic)

District 52 Terri Funk Sypolt (Republican)
District 53 D. Rolland Jennings (Republican)
District 54 John Paul Hott (Republican)
District 55 Isaac Sponaugle (Democratic)
District 56 Gary Howell (Republican)
District 57 Ruth Rowan (Republican)
District 58 Daryl Cowles (Republican)
District 59 Larry Kump (Republican)
District 60 S. Marshall Wilson (Republican)
District 61 Jason Barrett (Democratic)
District 62 Tom Bibby (Republican)
District 63 John Hardy (Republican)
District 64 Eric Householder (Republican)
District 65 Sammi Brown (Democratic)
District 66 Paul Espinosa (Republican)
District 67 John Doyle (Democratic)

References

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  1. ^ contact@scytl.com, scytl. "Election Night Reporting". results.enr.clarityelections.com.
  2. ^ "West Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2018". Ballotpedia. Retrieved September 1, 2025.
  3. ^ Jacobson, Louis (October 8, 2018). "A Month Before Election Day, Democrats Poised for Legislative Gains". Governing. Retrieved June 27, 2024.