West Virginia 2005 Off Year Elections

The Green Papers: West Virginia 2005 Off Year Elections

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West Virginia
Elections for Statewide offices and Congress

Electoral Votes:	5	(0.93% of 538)
Governor:	1
Senators:	2	(Electoral Classes 1 and 2)
2002-2010 Representatives:	3	(0.69% of 435)
2000 Census:	1,813,077	(0.64% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):	1,416,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):	1,067,822
Capital:	Charleston

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West Virginia State and Local Government



U.S. Senate 6 year term. No Term Limit. 109^th Senate Senate Electoral Classes

Class 1	Democratic	Senator Robert C. Byrd • First elected: 1958; re-elected: 1964, 1970, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Class 2	Democratic	Senator John D. "Jay" Rockefeller, IV • First elected: 1984; re-elected: 1990, 1996, 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, All Governors

	Democratic	Governor Joe Manchin, III • First elected: 2004 • Chair up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 • The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.

109^th U.S. House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 109^th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition): 2 Democratic (2 Undetermined); 1 Republican (1 Undetermined)

CD 1	Democratic	Congressman Alan B. Mollohan • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 2	Republican	Congressman Shelley Moore Capito • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 3	Democratic	Congressman Nick Joe Rahall, II • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Secretary of State 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008

	Republican	Secretary of State Betty Ireland • First elected: 2004 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Attorney General 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008

	Democratic	Attorney General Darrell V. McGraw, Jr. • First elected: ?; re-elected: 2004 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Treasurer 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008

	Democratic	Treasurer John D. Perdue • First elected: 1996; re-elected: 2000, 2004 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Auditor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008

	Democratic	Auditor Glen B. Gainer, III • First elected: 1992; re-elected: 1996, 2000, 2004 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Commissioner of Agriculture 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008

	Democratic	Agriculture Commissioner Gus R. Douglass • First elected: 1964; re-elected: 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984. Unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate in 1988. Elected: 1992; re-elected: 1996, 2000, 2004. • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Political Parties Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.

	• Constitution
	• Democratic
	• Libertarian
	• Mountain
	• Republican

2002-2010 Congressional Districts 2002-2010 CDs

West Virginia has 55 counties and 3 congressional districts: all 55 counties are wholly within a given congressional district and no county is divided among more than one congressional district.

CD 1: Barbour, Brooke, Doddridge, Gilmer, Grant, Hancock, Harrison, Marion, Marshall, Mineral, Monongalia, Ohio, Pleasants, Preston, Ritchie, Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, Wetzel and Wood.
CD 2: Berkeley, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Hampshire, Hardy, Jackson, Jefferson, Kanawha, Lewis, Mason, Morgan, Pendleton, Putnam, Randolph, Roane, Upshur and Wirt.
CD 3: Boone, Cabell, Fayette, Greenbrier, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mercer, Mingo, Monroe, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Raleigh, Summers, Wayne, Webster and Wyoming.