{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-wv",
  "name": "West Virginia",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/wv",
  "slug": "wv",
  "state": "wv",
  "state_name": "West Virginia",
  "state_id": "us-wv"
 },
 "question": "How did West Virginia vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "Jim Justice (Republican) won by 41.0 points",
  "value": 41,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2024: winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "Jim Justice (Republican) 68.8%, Glenn Elliott (Democrat) 27.8%, David Moran (Libertarian) 3.5%",
   "747,717 votes for Senate candidates"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2024",
 "as_of_label": "2024",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in West Virginia since 1976",
   "description": "17 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 14 and Republicans in 3.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1976,
       100,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1978,
       0.956,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1982,
       37.725,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1984,
       4.092,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1988,
       29.536,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1990,
       36.646,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1994,
       38.024,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1996,
       53.296,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2000,
       57.596,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2002,
       26.222,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2006,
       54.098,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2008,
       27.471,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2012,
       24.1,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2014,
       -27.653,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2018,
       3.249,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2020,
       -43.284,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2024,
       -40.995,
       "rep"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1976,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 566359,
    "votes": {
     "Robert C. Byrd": 566359
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1978,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 493351,
    "votes": {
     "Jennings Randolph": 249034,
     "Arch A. Moore Jr.": 244317
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1982,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 565314,
    "votes": {
     "Robert C. Byrd": 387170,
     "Cleve Benedict": 173910,
     "William B. Hovland": 4234
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1984,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 722212,
    "votes": {
     "Jay Rockefeller": 374233,
     "John R. Raese": 344680,
     "Mary E. \"joan\" Radin": 3299
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1988,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 634547,
    "votes": {
     "Robert C. Byrd": 410983,
     "M. Jay Wolfe": 223564
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1990,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 404305,
    "votes": {
     "John D. Rockefeller Iv": 276234,
     "John Yoder": 128071
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1994,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 420936,
    "votes": {
     "Robert C. Byrd": 290495,
     "Stan Klos": 130441
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1996,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 595614,
    "votes": {
     "John D. Rockefeller Iv": 456526,
     "Betty A. Burks": 139088
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2000,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 603477,
    "votes": {
     "Robert C. Byrd": 469215,
     "David T. Gallaher": 121635,
     "Joe Whelan": 12627
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2002,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 436183,
    "votes": {
     "John D. Rockefeller Iv": 275281,
     "Jay Wolfe": 160902
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2006,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 206562,
    "votes": {
     "Robert C. Byrd": 159154,
     "John R. Raese": 47408
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2008,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 702308,
    "votes": {
     "John D. Rockefeller Iv": 447560,
     "Jay Wolfe": 254629
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2010,
    "special": true,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 529948,
    "votes": {
     "Joe Manchin Iii": 283358,
     "John R. Raese": 230013,
     "Jesse Johnson": 10152,
     "Jeff Becker": 6425
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2012,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 660202,
    "votes": {
     "Joe Manchin Iii": 399898,
     "John R. Raese": 240787,
     "Bob Henry Baber": 19517
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2014,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 453689,
    "votes": {
     "Shelley Moore Capito": 281820,
     "Natalie Tennant": 156360,
     "John S. Buckley": 7409,
     "Bob Henry Baber": 5504,
     "Phil Hudok": 2566
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2018,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 582911,
    "votes": {
     "Joe Manchin": 288808,
     "Patrick Morrisey": 269872,
     "Rusty Hollen": 24231
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2020,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 778918,
    "votes": {
     "Shelley Moore Capito": 547454,
     "Paula Jean Swearengin": 210309,
     "David Moran": 21155
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2024,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 747717,
    "votes": {
     "Jim Justice": 514079,
     "Glenn Elliott": 207548,
     "David Moran": 26075
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2024",
    "Jim Justice (R) 68.8%",
    "Glenn Elliott (D) 27.8%",
    "41.0 pts",
    "747,717"
   ],
   [
    "2020",
    "Shelley Moore Capito (R) 70.3%",
    "Paula Jean Swearengin (D) 27.0%",
    "43.3 pts",
    "778,918"
   ],
   [
    "2018",
    "Joe Manchin (D) 49.5%",
    "Patrick Morrisey (R) 46.3%",
    "3.2 pts",
    "582,911"
   ],
   [
    "2014",
    "Shelley Moore Capito (R) 62.1%",
    "Natalie Tennant (D) 34.5%",
    "27.7 pts",
    "453,689"
   ],
   [
    "2012",
    "Joe Manchin Iii (D) 60.6%",
    "John R. Raese (R) 36.5%",
    "24.1 pts",
    "660,202"
   ],
   [
    "2010 special",
    "Joe Manchin Iii (D) 53.5%",
    "John R. Raese (R) 43.4%",
    "10.1 pts",
    "529,948"
   ],
   [
    "2008",
    "John D. Rockefeller Iv (D) 63.7%",
    "Jay Wolfe (R) 36.3%",
    "27.5 pts",
    "702,308"
   ],
   [
    "2006",
    "Robert C. Byrd (D) 77.0%",
    "John R. Raese (R) 23.0%",
    "54.1 pts",
    "206,562"
   ],
   [
    "2002",
    "John D. Rockefeller Iv (D) 63.1%",
    "Jay Wolfe (R) 36.9%",
    "26.2 pts",
    "436,183"
   ],
   [
    "2000",
    "Robert C. Byrd (D) 77.8%",
    "David T. Gallaher (R) 20.2%",
    "57.6 pts",
    "603,477"
   ],
   [
    "1996",
    "John D. Rockefeller Iv (D) 76.6%",
    "Betty A. Burks (R) 23.4%",
    "53.3 pts",
    "595,614"
   ],
   [
    "1994",
    "Robert C. Byrd (D) 69.0%",
    "Stan Klos (R) 31.0%",
    "38.0 pts",
    "420,936"
   ],
   [
    "1990",
    "John D. Rockefeller Iv (D) 68.3%",
    "John Yoder (R) 31.7%",
    "36.6 pts",
    "404,305"
   ],
   [
    "1988",
    "Robert C. Byrd (D) 64.8%",
    "M. Jay Wolfe (R) 35.2%",
    "29.5 pts",
    "634,547"
   ],
   [
    "1984",
    "Jay Rockefeller (D) 51.8%",
    "John R. Raese (R) 47.7%",
    "4.1 pts",
    "722,212"
   ],
   [
    "1982",
    "Robert C. Byrd (D) 68.5%",
    "Cleve Benedict (R) 30.8%",
    "37.7 pts",
    "565,314"
   ],
   [
    "1978",
    "Jennings Randolph (D) 50.5%",
    "Arch A. Moore Jr. (R) 49.5%",
    "1.0 pts",
    "493,351"
   ],
   [
    "1976",
    "Robert C. Byrd (D) 100.0%",
    "unopposed",
    "100.0 pts",
    "566,359"
   ]
  ]
 },
 "api": {
  "now": "/data/places/us-wv/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}