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Election 2008 Results

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2008 presidential election in West Virginia

John McCain (Republican) beat Barack Obama (Democrat) in West Virginia in 2008, 55.7% to 42.6%, a margin of 13.1 points and 93,609 votes.

West Virginia voted 20.4 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+7.3.

The Republican hold continued from 2004, when George W. Bush won.

Republicans led in 48 of the 55 counties and Democrats in 7. The largest, Kanawha, cast 82,484 votes and went to the Republican by 0.4 points. The closest was Braxton, where 75 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
John McCain won Republican 397,466 55.7%
Barack Obama Democratic 303,857 42.6%
All other candidates 12,128 1.7%
Total713,451

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Kanawha 40,594 49.2% 40,952 49.6% 938 82,484 R+0.4
Berkeley 15,994 42.9% 20,841 55.9% 457 37,292 R+13.0
Wood 12,573 34.9% 22,896 63.6% 533 36,002 R+28.7
Cabell 15,292 44.2% 18,793 54.3% 507 34,592 R+10.1
Monongalia 17,060 51.1% 15,775 47.3% 544 33,379 D+3.8
Harrison 13,582 42.6% 17,824 55.9% 466 31,872 R+13.3
Raleigh 10,237 36.2% 17,548 62.1% 474 28,259 R+25.9
Putnam 9,334 37.7% 15,162 61.2% 284 24,780 R+23.5
Marion 11,618 49.2% 11,501 48.7% 488 23,607 D+0.5
Jefferson 11,687 51.8% 10,600 47.0% 258 22,545 D+4.8
Mercer 7,450 35.4% 13,246 63.0% 326 21,022 R+27.6
Ohio 8,593 44.0% 10,694 54.7% 253 19,540 R+10.8
Wayne 6,137 39.8% 8,947 58.0% 346 15,430 R+18.2
Fayette 7,242 47.7% 7,658 50.4% 294 15,194 R+2.7
Marshall 5,996 42.8% 7,759 55.4% 246 14,001 R+12.6
Greenbrier 5,881 42.8% 7,567 55.1% 284 13,732 R+12.3
Logan 5,873 43.6% 7,326 54.4% 266 13,465 R+10.8
Hancock 5,504 41.6% 7,518 56.9% 198 13,220 R+15.2
Jackson 4,861 39.7% 7,148 58.4% 227 12,236 R+18.7
Preston 4,205 35.6% 7,325 62.1% 266 11,796 R+26.4
Mineral 3,750 32.5% 7,616 66.0% 181 11,547 R+33.5
Randolph 4,539 41.9% 6,060 55.9% 234 10,833 R+14.0
Mason 4,484 42.3% 5,853 55.2% 266 10,603 R+12.9
Brooke 4,717 47.9% 4,961 50.3% 179 9,857 R+2.5
Nicholas 4,357 46.5% 4,804 51.3% 200 9,361 R+4.8
Upshur 2,925 32.6% 5,911 65.9% 135 8,971 R+33.3
Boone 4,529 54.1% 3,632 43.4% 209 8,370 D+10.7
Hampshire 2,983 35.7% 5,222 62.6% 142 8,347 R+26.8
Mingo 3,582 43.0% 4,587 55.0% 169 8,338 R+12.1
Wyoming 2,735 36.3% 4,621 61.4% 174 7,530 R+25.0
Morgan 2,721 37.4% 4,428 60.9% 127 7,276 R+23.5
Lincoln 3,029 44.3% 3,637 53.2% 169 6,835 R+8.9
Lewis 2,109 31.9% 4,335 65.6% 162 6,606 R+33.7
Wetzel 2,942 45.6% 3,342 51.8% 170 6,454 R+6.2
McDowell 3,430 53.3% 2,882 44.8% 118 6,430 D+8.5
Barbour 2,419 38.8% 3,685 59.1% 128 6,232 R+20.3
Taylor 2,462 39.7% 3,605 58.1% 136 6,203 R+18.4
Monroe 2,014 36.1% 3,397 60.9% 164 5,575 R+24.8
Roane 2,511 45.1% 2,943 52.9% 109 5,563 R+7.8
Braxton 2,704 50.0% 2,629 48.6% 76 5,409 D+1.4
Hardy 1,901 35.2% 3,376 62.4% 130 5,407 R+27.3
Summers 2,290 43.1% 2,891 54.4% 135 5,316 R+11.3
Grant 997 23.6% 3,166 75.1% 55 4,218 R+51.4
Ritchie 998 25.9% 2,781 72.3% 67 3,846 R+46.4
Tyler 1,241 33.2% 2,415 64.6% 85 3,741 R+31.4
Pocahontas 1,548 42.5% 2,011 55.2% 83 3,642 R+12.7
Tucker 1,288 36.7% 2,123 60.5% 96 3,507 R+23.8
Pendleton 1,310 38.6% 2,035 59.9% 50 3,395 R+21.4
Clay 1,421 43.5% 1,755 53.8% 89 3,265 R+10.2
Webster 1,552 50.8% 1,386 45.3% 119 3,057 D+5.4
Doddridge 735 24.4% 2,218 73.5% 65 3,018 R+49.1
Pleasants 1,142 38.4% 1,772 59.6% 61 2,975 R+21.2
Gilmer 1,004 39.8% 1,445 57.3% 72 2,521 R+17.5
Calhoun 993 40.9% 1,366 56.2% 70 2,429 R+15.4
Wirt 782 33.6% 1,496 64.3% 48 2,326 R+30.7

Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

West Virginia in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+41.9
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+38.9
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+42.1
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+26.8
2008 John McCain (R) R+13.1
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+12.9
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+6.3
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+14.7
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+13.0
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+4.7
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+10.5
1980 Jimmy Carter (D) D+4.5
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+16.1
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+27.2
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+8.8
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+35.9
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+5.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+8.2
1952 Adlai Stevenson II (D) D+3.8
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+15.1
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+14.2
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.4
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+10.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+17.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+5.4
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+12.0
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+0.9
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+21.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+10.3
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+13.2
1900 William McKinley (R) R+9.5
1896 William McKinley (R) R+5.4
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+2.4
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.3
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+3.2
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+9.9
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+14.6
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+17.6