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The West Virginia House Safe R

This is one of our least certain forecasts — state-legislative races have almost no district polling and many of these maps were redrawn. Read the range, not the midpoint. How this is modeled →

Forecast · candidate-independent chamber model

Republicans are favored to hold control of the West Virginia House.

Chance of R control>99 in 100Expected Democratic seats 9.0 of 10080% range 59
D 9100 seats · 51 for a majorityR 91
PVIR+21
Seats up in 2026100
Chamber size100
Majority threshold51
District by district

100 seats, one per district. Hover a district for its seat; the table below opens with the closest races and carries the exact values.

Rating band
Striped = seat changes partyModeled seats use forecast paint; legal carries and terrain remain explicitly distinct
Forecast margin — pale at Even, deep at safe

Census Bureau 2025 1:500,000 cartographic boundaries — simplified geometry for thematic mapping, not legal district lines.

DemocratRepublican
57HOLLIS T. LEWIS — 69 in 100HOLLIS T. LEWISD+4.9
82DAVID McCORMICK — 73 in 100THOMAS RAMSEY · EDDIE WAGONERDAVID McCORMICKR+6.0
100WILLIAM RIDENOUR — 85 in 100JENNY THACKERWILLIAM RIDENOURR+10.1
56Republican — 86 in 100KAYLA YOUNGR+10.7
80Democratic — 87 in 100OLIVIA MILLER · KIRSTEN NELSOND+10.9
55JB AKERS — 87 in 100AARON CRANK · ANTHONY DASAROJB AKERSR+11.2
5Republican — 90 in 100KAREN SHULER STAKEMBETH HINEBAUGH · RILEY WATKINSR+12.6
24PATRICK LUCAS — 91 in 100STEVE WILLIAMSPATRICK LUCASR+12.9
99Republican — 92 in 100REGINA DYER · ROBERT M. VINCENTWAYNE M. CLARK · ROBERT FLUHARTYR+14.1
26Republican — 94 in 100ANDREW G LOWRY · MATTHEW ROHRBACHR+15.0