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2024 presidential election in West Virginia

Donald Trump (Republican) beat Kamala Harris (Democrat) in West Virginia in 2024, 70.0% to 28.1%, a margin of 41.9 points and 319,247 votes.

West Virginia voted 40.4 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+1.5.

The Republican hold continued from 2020, when Donald Trump also won.

Republicans led in 55 of the 55 counties. The largest, Kanawha, cast 75,258 votes and went to the Republican by 17.4 points. The closest was Gilmer, where 1,336 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
Donald Trump won Republican 533,556 70.0%
Kamala Harris Democratic 214,309 28.1%
All other candidates 14,717 1.9%
Total762,582

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Kanawha 30,231 40.2% 43,352 57.6% 1,675 75,258 R+17.4
Berkeley 17,500 31.2% 37,580 67.0% 1,036 56,116 R+35.8
Monongalia 19,265 46.5% 21,084 50.9% 1,114 41,463 R+4.4
Wood 10,317 27.6% 26,380 70.7% 625 37,322 R+43.0
Cabell 13,474 38.0% 21,229 59.9% 735 35,438 R+21.9
Raleigh 6,816 22.0% 23,644 76.3% 514 30,974 R+54.3
Harrison 8,402 28.5% 20,480 69.4% 621 29,503 R+40.9
Jefferson 11,967 41.0% 16,573 56.8% 623 29,163 R+15.8
Putnam 7,124 25.9% 19,868 72.2% 522 27,514 R+46.3
Marion 8,185 33.2% 15,881 64.5% 574 24,640 R+31.2
Mercer 4,851 20.6% 18,372 77.9% 367 23,590 R+57.3
Ohio 6,727 36.0% 11,593 62.0% 374 18,694 R+26.0
Wayne 3,532 22.4% 11,934 75.8% 285 15,751 R+53.3
Fayette 4,387 28.1% 10,910 69.8% 327 15,624 R+41.7
Greenbrier 4,196 28.0% 10,517 70.1% 287 15,000 R+42.1
Preston 2,953 20.5% 11,176 77.4% 301 14,430 R+57.0
Marshall 3,186 24.1% 9,808 74.1% 242 13,236 R+50.0
Hancock 3,360 25.8% 9,462 72.6% 211 13,033 R+46.8
Mineral 2,483 19.2% 10,247 79.4% 177 12,907 R+60.2
Jackson 2,699 21.0% 9,907 77.2% 219 12,825 R+56.2
Randolph 3,008 25.9% 8,356 72.1% 233 11,597 R+46.1
Logan 1,848 16.1% 9,500 82.8% 124 11,472 R+66.7
Mason 2,111 20.0% 8,232 78.0% 207 10,550 R+58.0
Hampshire 1,890 18.0% 8,464 80.6% 149 10,503 R+62.6
Nicholas 1,919 19.1% 7,960 79.3% 161 10,040 R+60.2
Upshur 2,033 20.6% 7,633 77.4% 196 9,862 R+56.8
Brooke 2,621 26.8% 6,986 71.4% 177 9,784 R+44.6
Morgan 1,947 21.4% 7,009 77.0% 143 9,099 R+55.6
Mingo 1,061 12.5% 7,325 86.3% 106 8,492 R+73.8
Boone 1,641 20.1% 6,314 77.5% 189 8,144 R+57.4
Wyoming 980 13.0% 6,503 85.9% 84 7,567 R+73.0
Taylor 1,694 23.3% 5,422 74.6% 151 7,267 R+51.3
Lincoln 1,279 17.8% 5,770 80.3% 140 7,189 R+62.5
Lewis 1,372 19.5% 5,550 78.7% 128 7,050 R+59.3
Hardy 1,297 20.2% 4,997 77.9% 119 6,413 R+57.7
Barbour 1,199 18.7% 5,071 79.3% 127 6,397 R+60.5
Monroe 1,155 18.1% 5,089 79.9% 125 6,369 R+61.8
Wetzel 1,294 21.0% 4,718 76.5% 158 6,170 R+55.5
Grant 552 9.9% 4,949 88.9% 68 5,569 R+79.0
Roane 1,218 22.1% 4,189 75.9% 115 5,522 R+53.8
McDowell 1,036 19.1% 4,310 79.4% 80 5,426 R+60.3
Braxton 1,233 23.2% 3,991 75.1% 90 5,314 R+51.9
Summers 1,226 23.3% 3,931 74.7% 108 5,265 R+51.4
Ritchie 517 12.8% 3,473 85.7% 61 4,051 R+73.0
Pocahontas 927 23.8% 2,889 74.0% 86 3,902 R+50.3
Tucker 890 24.5% 2,669 73.4% 78 3,637 R+48.9
Tyler 554 15.3% 2,991 82.7% 73 3,618 R+67.4
Pendleton 680 19.8% 2,687 78.4% 59 3,426 R+58.6
Pleasants 656 19.6% 2,632 78.6% 61 3,349 R+59.0
Clay 580 17.9% 2,597 80.1% 64 3,241 R+62.2
Webster 479 16.0% 2,478 82.6% 42 2,999 R+66.7
Doddridge 374 12.6% 2,541 85.9% 42 2,957 R+73.3
Calhoun 488 16.6% 2,391 81.4% 58 2,937 R+64.8
Wirt 409 15.8% 2,120 82.1% 53 2,582 R+66.3
Gilmer 486 20.7% 1,822 77.7% 37 2,345 R+57.0

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