The Green Papers: West Virginia 2018 General Election
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
✓ Primary: Tuesday 8 May 2018
✓ General Election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Saturday 27 January 2018 - Filing Deadline - Primary .
Tuesday 8 May 2018 - Primary . Polling hours 6:30a-7:30p EDT (1030-2330 UTC).
Wednesday 1 August 2018 - Filing Deadline - Independent/Third/Minor .
Tuesday 6 November 2018 - General Election . Polling hours 6:30a-7:30p EST (1130-0030 UTC).
 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 1 and 2)
Governor:1 
2010 Census:1,859,815 (0.60% of 309,785,186)
2012, 2016, 2020 Electoral Votes:5(0.93% of 538)
2012-2020 Representatives:3(0.69% of 435)
Capital:Charleston
 

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West Virginia State and Local Government


16 February 2017: State Senator Jeff "Bubblegum" Mullins introduces SB 33 which moves all West Virginia primaries from May to the 2nd Friday in February.

The primary includes the Democratic and Republican parties. The Libertarian and Mountain parties nominate by convention.

Candidates affiliated with a recognized political party who run for election in a primary election and who lose the nomination cannot change her or his voter registration to a minor party organization/unaffiliated candidate to take advantage of the later filing deadlines and have their name on the subsequent general election ballot.


2018 Elections from the West Virginia Secretary of State.

Candidate Listing By Office from the West Virginia Secretary of State.

8 May 2018 Primary: Returns from an official source.
Results from Politico.
Results from The New York Times.


6 November 2018:
Candidate Listing By Office from the West Virginia Secretary of State.
Returns from the West Virginia Secretary of State.
Certified returns from the West Virginia Secretary of State.

 
           

U.S. Senate  6 year term. No Term Limit. 115th Senate  Senate Electoral Classes

Class 1
Seat up for regular election
Democratic Senator Joseph "Joe" Manchin, III
• Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2018
First elected in a special election to a partial term to fill the vacancy caused by the 28 June 2010 death of Senator Robert C. Byrd (Democratic): 2 November 2010. He replaces Senator Carte P. Goodwin (Democrat) who had been appointed by Governor Joe Manchin (Democratic) to temporarily fill the vacancy. Won the special election for the term ending in Jaunary 2013 and the the concurrent regular election for the term ending January 2019: 6 November 2012
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Renominated
 Candidate list (3, 4 write-ins)
  Elected Democratic 290,510 49.57% Senator Joseph "Joe" Manchin, III
FEC S0WV00090; 26 Nov 18; Tot $8,400,452; Dsb $7,682,192
  Candidate Republican 271,113 46.26% Attorney General Patrick James Morrisey
10 July 2017: Candidate for the U.S. Senate Class 1 Seat in 2018.

FEC S8WV00143; 26 Nov 18; Tot $6,171,331; Dsb $6,082,678
  Candidate Libertarian 24,411 4.17% Rusty Lee Hollen
FEC S8WV00192
  Candidate Write-in     Morgantown City Deputy Mayor and Councilor Mark Brazaitis
  Candidate Write-in     Larry Butcher
  Candidate Write-in     Christopher M. Cross
  Candidate Write-in     Ry Hutcherson
Total 586,034 100.00%  

Class 2 Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito
First elected: 2014
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2020
 Candidate list (1)
  Candidate Republican     Senator Shelley Moore Capito
FEC S4WV00159

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2016, 2020. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, All Governors

  Republican Governor Jim Justice
First elected: 2016 (as a Democrat)
Chair up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2020
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.
3 August 2017: Announced he was changing his affiliation from Democratic to Republican: "... tomorrow I will be changing my registration to Republican."
 Candidate list (1)
  Candidate Democratic     Stephen Noble Smith

115th U.S. House of Representatives  2-year term. Election Cycle 2018, 2020. No Term Limit. 115th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
2 Republican (2 Renominated);
1 Vacancy

Incumbent - 115th Congress
CD 1
Seat up for regular election
Republican Congressman David Bennett McKinley
• Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2018
First elected: 2010
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Renominated
 Candidate list (2, 1 write-in) - 116th Congress
  Elected Republican 127,997 64.58% Congressman David Bennett McKinley
FEC H0WV01072; 26 Nov 18; Tot $1,325,311; Dsb $1,309,360
  Candidate Democratic 70,217 35.42% Kendra Jean Huard Fershee
FEC H8WV01075; 26 Nov 18; Tot $274,573; Dsb $276,609
  Candidate Write-in; (Independent)     Alex Weinstein
Total 198,214 100.00%  

Incumbent - 115th Congress
CD 2
Seat up for regular election
Republican Congressman Alexander Xavier "Alex" Mooney
• Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2018
First elected: 2014
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Renominated
 Candidate list (3) - 116th Congress
  Elected Republican 110,504 53.96% Congressman Alexander Xavier "Alex" Mooney
FEC H4WV02080; 26 Nov 18; Tot $1,817,971; Dsb $1,178,406
  Candidate Democratic 88,011 42.98% Rebekah Talbott "Talley" Sergent
FEC H8WV02115; 26 Nov 18; Tot $705,197; Dsb $682,226
  Candidate Mountain 6,277 3.07% Daniel Perettie "Danny" Lutz, Jr.
FEC H8WV02123; 13 Nov 18; Tot $2,230; Dsb $2,121
Total 204,792 100.00%  

Incumbent - 115th Congress
CD 3
Seat up for regular election
Vacant
Republican Congressman Evan H. Jenkins
First elected: 2014.
Previously served as a Democrat in the state Senate 2002-2010 and state House 1994-1998. Switched from Democratic to Republican: 30 July 2013.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018
Vacant Office - 8 May 2017: Lost the primary for the U.S. Senate Class 2 seat in 2018.
Now running for state Supreme Court Justice.
25 August 2018: Governor Jim Justice has names Congressman Evan Jenkins to the state Supreme Court. The Congressman will resign from Congress when he takes the bench.
28 August 2018: There will be no special election according to the Secretary of State. Once Congressman Jenkins resigns, the seat will remain vacant until the successor is seated on 3 January 2019.
30 September 2018: Resigned.
 ** Open Seat (no incumbent) **
 Candidate list (2) - 116th Congress
  Elected Republican 98,645 56.37% state Delegate Carol Devine Miller
FEC H8WV03097; 26 Nov 18; Tot $1,942,490; Dsb $1,922,793
  Candidate Democratic 76,340 43.63% state Senator Richard Neece Ojeda, II
FEC H8WV03048; 26 Nov 18; Tot $2,850,434; Dsb $2,808,058
Total 174,985 100.00%  

Secretary of State  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2016, 2020

  Republican Secretary of State Andrew "Mac" Warner
First elected: 2016
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2020

Attorney General  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2016, 2020

  Republican Attorney General Patrick James Morrisey
First elected: 2012; re-elected: 2016.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2020
10 July 2017: Candidate for the U.S. Senate Class 1 Seat in 2018.

Treasurer  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2016, 2020

  Democratic Treasurer Johnny Duane "John" Perdue
First elected: 1996; re-elected: 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016.
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2020

Auditor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2016, 2020

  Republican Auditor John B. "J.B." McCuskey
First elected: 2016
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2020

Commissioner of Agriculture  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2016, 2020

  Republican Agriculture Commissioner Kent Leonhardt
First elected: 2016
Seat up for regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2020
 

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.

Major Parties   Those parties which received electoral votes through winning a plurality of a state's [or the District of Columbia's] popular vote in any presidential election between 1984 and 2016. See Classification of Political parties.
  Democratic (affiliates): 2 incumbents, 5 candidates
  Republican: 9 incumbents, 5 candidates
Major Third Parties   Any Party, other than a Major Party, receiving a minimum of 15/100ths of 1 percent of the nationwide popular vote in any presidential election between 1984 and 2016. See Classification of Political parties.
  Libertarian: 1 candidate
Other Third Parties
  Mountain (affiliate of Green): 1 candidate
Independents
  Independent: 1 candidate
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable
  Write-in: 5 candidates
 
Candidates running under the banner of more than one party are counted towards each party's total. A candidate who has lost a primary or is apparently no longer a candidate is not counted.

Notes

Candidates for office appear on this page in italics where 'The Green Papers' does not yet have independent confirmation from a legal election authority that the person has been officially certified to appear on the ballot.

Primary dates marked "presumably" and polling times marked "reportedly" are based on unofficial or estimated data (especially as regards local variations from a jurisdictionwide statutory and/or regulatory standard) and are, thereby, subject to change.

"FEC" indicates the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Campaign Finance Summary.

When available, we post each candidate's FEC identification number, the date of their most recently filed Report of Receipts and Disbursements, their "Tot" [Total Receipts (contributions received or what came in: FEC Form 3, Line 16, Column B)] and their "Dsb" [Total Disbursements (expenditures or what was spent: FEC Form 3, Line 23, Column B)]. A link is provided to the Federal Election Commission's Summary Report for those who might wish to explore the details.

If a candidate raises or spends $5,000 or less, he or she is not subject to FEC reporting requirements.


 


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