18 of the 34 seats in the West Virginia Senate[a] 18 seats needed for a majority
Majority party
Minority party
Leader
Bill Cole (retired)
Jeff Kessler (retired)
Party
Republican
Democratic
Leader's seat
6th district
2nd district
Seats before
18
16
Seats won
22
12
Seat change
4
4
Popular vote
379,414
345,598
Percentage
52.3%
47.7%
Seats up
8
10
Races won
12
6
Results of the elections: Democratic gain Republican gain Democratic hold Republican holdRectangular inset (District 3): both seats up for election
Senate President before election
Bill Cole
Republican
Elected Senate President
Mitch Carmichael
Republican
Elections in West Virginia
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1884
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1890
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General elections
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Gubernatorial elections
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1998
2000
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
2014
2016
2018
2020
2022
2024
Local government
Charleston (mayoral elections)
2022
Huntington (municipal elections)
2020
2024
Wheeling (municipal elections)
2020
2024
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The 2016 West Virginia Senate elections were held on November 8, 2016, as part of the biennial United States elections. Seventeen of West Virginia's 34 state senators were up for regular selection, along with an unexpired term for another seat. West Virginia Senate districts each have two elected representatives. State senators serve staggered four-year terms in West Virginia, with one senator from each district up in even-numbered years corresponding to presidential election years (such as 2016), and the other up in even-numbered years corresponding to presidential midterm years.
Primary elections in the state were held on May 10. After the previous 2014 state elections, Republicans held a slim majority in the Senate, holding 18 seats to the Democrats' 16. The Republican Party had long been the minority party in West Virginia, but the decline of the strength of coal worker unions, the Democratic Party's increasing focus on environmentalism, the unpopularity of President Barack Obama, and the increasing social conservatism of the Republican Party have helped the GOP solidify power in the state rapidly since 2000.
The high popularity of candidate Donald Trump within the state and his 42-point margin of victory, helped the Republicans gain four seats. This can be attributed to the increasing association of the West Virginia Democratic Party with the national Democratic Party, and a strong year for the Republican Party nationally, in which they gained control of the presidency, and kept control of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. Donald Trump won West Virginia with 68.5% of the vote, his largest share of the vote in any state. Trump's performance helped Republican Senate candidates down-ballot, as he won every senate district in the state.[1]
Following the state's 2016 Senate elections, Republicans maintained and increased their control of the Senate with 22 seats to the Democrats' 12.
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