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2016 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia

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2016 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia

← 2014 November 8, 2016 2018 →

All 3 West Virginia seats to the United States House of Representatives
  Majority party Minority party
 
Party Republican Democratic
Last election 3 0
Seats won 3 0
Seat change Steady Steady
Popular vote 445,017 224,449
Percentage 64.84% 32.70%
Swing Increase 9.58% Decrease 8.83%

The 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia were held on November 8, 2016, to elect the three U.S. representatives from the state of West Virginia, one from each of the state's three congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.

The primaries were held on May 10.

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Hello Internet The UK had an election we need to talk about because after the debates finished, the people voted and the ballots tallied the results were this: But parliament ended up looking like this: Which isn't, exactly, representative. And by not exactly, I mean at all. Red earned 30% of the vote and 36% of the seats, which is sort of close, but the rest is madness: Orange earned 8% of the vote but got one eighth of that while Yellow's 5% just about doubled, and purple earned 13% and got squat. Meanwhile blue's 37% of the people booted to 51% of the seats in parliament. The blue boost is even bigger when you consider that 51% of the seats gives basically 100% the control. How'd this happen? In the UK -- national elections aren't really national, they're a bunch of local elections. The UK is divided into constituencies, each of which elects one member of parliament (M.P.) to represent them. This local / national divide is where the trouble begins. Imagine a parliament with just three constituencies, and it's easy to see how it wouldn't always align with citizens. Some people think this sort of result is fine -- “it's all *about* winning local elections,” they’ll say. “Each M.P. represents their constituency.” And while the imbalance in this example is dumb, but it's the same problem in the real election and this same argument is given, but there are two more problems with it in reality land. 1) Few citizens have any idea who their MP is, they just know what party they voted for -- what party they want to represent their views on the national level. And pretending like it's a local election is a bit disingenuous. -- in practice it's an election for now the nation will run -- not really for who is going to represent a tiny part of it. and even if it were 2) The individual constituencies are worse at representing their citizens than parliament. Indulge this spreadsheet-loving nerd for a moment, will you? The difference between what a party earned at the polls and what they got in parliament is the amount of misrepresentation error. If we calculate all the errors for all the parties and add them up we can say the Parliament as a whole has 47% percentage points of misrepresentation error. That sounds bad looks like a utopian rainbow of diversity compared to any local election because the local elections have *one* winner. Out of the 650 constituencies 647 have a higher representation error than parliament. These are the only three that don't and they're really unusual for having so many of a single kind of voter in one place. Most places look the The Wrekin which is dead in the middle a mere one-hundred and one points off. Note that the winning candidate didn't reach a majority here. Which means more than half of constituencies elected their MP with a minority of voters. The worst is Belfast South at the bottom of the list. Hilariously unrepresentative. Less than a quarter of the voters get to speak for the entire place in parliament. This is the the lowest percentage an M.P. has ever been elected by. So when people argue that the UK election is a bunch of local elections 1) people don't act like it, and 2) It's even more of an argument that the elections are broken because they're worse on this level. These local elections are unrepresentative because of the terrible 'First Past the Post' voting system -- which I have complained mightily about and won't repeat everything here -- go watch the video -- but TL;DR it only 'works' when citizens are limited to two choices. Voting for any party except the biggest makes it more likely the biggest will win by a minority -- which is exactly what happened. That citizens keep voting for smaller parties despite knowing the result is against their strategic interests demonstrates the citizenry wants diverse representation -- but that successes is the very thing that's made this the most unrepresentative parliament in the history of the UK. People happy with the results argue the system is working fine -- of course they do. Their team won. Government isn't a sport where a singular 'winner' must be determined. It's a system to make rules that everyone follows and so, we need a system where everyone can agree the process is fair even if the results don't go in their favor. If you support a system that disenfranchises people you don't like and turbo-franchises people you do -- then it doesn't look like you sport representative democracy, it looks like you support a kind of dictatorship light. Where a small group of people (including you) makes the rules for everyone. But as it is now, on election day the more people express what they want the worse the system looks which makes them disengaged at best or angry at worst and GEE I CAN'T IMAGINE WHY. This is fixable, there are many, many better ways the UK could vote -- here are two that even keep local representatives. And fixing voting really matters, because this is a kind of government illegitimacy score -- and it's been going up and may continue to do so unless this fundamentally broken voting system is changed.

Overview

Popular vote
Republican
64.84%
Democratic
32.70%
Libertarian
2.46%
House seats
Republican
100.0%
Democratic
0%
Libertarian
0%

By district

Results of the 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia by district:

District Republican Democratic Others Total Result
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
District 1 163,469 68.97% 73,534 31.03% 0 0.00% 237,003 100.0% Republican hold
District 2 140,807 58.18% 101,207 41.82% 0 0.00% 242,014 100.0% Republican hold
District 3 140,741 67.88% 49,708 23.98% 16,883 8.14% 207,332 100.0% Republican hold
Total 445,017 64.84% 224,449 32.70% 16,883 2.46% 686,349 100.0%

District 1

2016 West Virginia's 1st congressional district election

← 2014
2018 →
 
Nominee David McKinley Mike Manypenny
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 163,469 73,534
Percentage 69.0% 31.0%


U.S. Representative before election

David McKinley
Republican

Elected U.S. Representative

David McKinley
Republican

The 1st district was located in northern West Virginia and consisted of Barbour, Brooke, Doddridge, Gilmer, Grant, Hancock, Harrison, Marion, Marshall, Mineral, Monongalia, Ohio, Pleasants, Preston, Ritchie, Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, Wetzel, and Wood counties, including the cities of Parkersburg, Morgantown, Wheeling, Weirton, Fairmont, and Clarksburg.

Incumbent Republican David McKinley, who had represented the district since 2011, ran for re-election. He was re-elected with 64% of the vote in 2014. The district had a PVI of R+14.

Republican primary

McKinley expressed an interest in running for Governor of West Virginia,[1] but announced that he would run for re-election to the U.S. House.[2]

Candidates

Nominee

Results

Republican primary results[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican David McKinley (incumbent) 61,217 100.0
Total votes 61,217 100.0

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Results

Democratic primary results[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Mike Manypenny 60,911 100.0
Total votes 60,911 100.0

General election

Results

West Virginia's 1st congressional district, 2016[5]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican David McKinley (incumbent) 163,469 69.0
Democratic Mike Manypenny 73,534 31.0
Total votes 237,003 100.0
Republican hold

District 2

2016 West Virginia's 2nd congressional district election

← 2014
2018 →
 
Nominee Alex Mooney Mark Hunt
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 140,807 101,207
Percentage 58.2% 41.8%


U.S. Representative before election

Alex Mooney
Republican

Elected U.S. Representative

Alex Mooney
Republican

The 2nd district was located in central West Virginia and consisted of Berkeley, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Hampshire, Hardy, Jackson, Jefferson, Kanawha, Lewis, Morgan, Pendleton, Putnam, Randolph, Roane, Upshur, and Wirt counties, including the cities of Charleston and Martinsburg.

Incumbent Republican Alex Mooney, who had represented the district since 2015, ran for re-election. He was re-elected with 47% of the vote in 2014. The district had a PVI of R+11.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
Eliminated in primary
  • Marc Savitt, business owner[6]
Declined
  • Ken Reed, pharmacy owner and candidate for this seat in 2014[7]

Results

Republican primary results[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Alex Mooney (incumbent) 45,839 73.1
Republican Marc Savitt 16,849 26.9
Total votes 62,688 100.0

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
Eliminated in primary
Declined

Endorsements

Mark Hunt
Individuals
Harvey Peyton
Labor unions
  • West Virginia Education Association[11]
Cory Simpson
Organizations

Results

Democratic primary results[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Mark Hunt 21,296 29.1
Democratic Cory Simpson 19,180 26.2
Democratic Tom Payne 15,250 20.8
Democratic Harvey D. Peyton 11,143 15.2
Democratic Robert "Robin" Wilson, Jr. 6,344 8.7
Total votes 73,213 100.0

General election

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered
Sample
size
Margin of
error
Alex
Mooney (R)
Mark
Hunt (D)
Undecided
Lake Research Partners Hunt (D-Hunt) August 28–September 6, 2016 400 ± 4.9% 38% 35% 27%

Results

West Virginia's 2nd congressional district, 2016[5]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Alex Mooney (incumbent) 140,807 58.2
Democratic Mark Hunt 101,207 41.8
Total votes 242,014 100.0
Republican hold

District 3

2016 West Virginia's 3rd congressional district election

← 2014
2018 →
 
Nominee Evan Jenkins Matt Detch Zane Lawhorn
Party Republican Democratic Libertarian
Popular vote 140,741 49,708 16,883
Percentage 67.9% 24.0% 8.1%


U.S. Representative before election

Evan Jenkins
Republican

Elected U.S. Representative

Evan Jenkins
Republican

The 3rd district was located in southern West Virginia and consisted of Boone, Cabell, Fayette, Greenbrier, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, McDowell, Mercer, Mingo, Monroe, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Raleigh, Summers, Wayne, Webster, and Wyoming counties, including the cities of Huntington and Beckley.

Incumbent Republican Evan Jenkins,, who had represented the district since 2015, ran for re-election. He was elected with 55% of the vote in 2014. The district had a PVI of R+14.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

Results

Republican primary results[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Evan Jenkins (incumbent) 41,162 100.0
Total votes 41,162 100.0

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
Declined

Results

Democratic primary results[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Matt Detch 53,703 100.0
Total votes 53,703 100.0

General election

Results

West Virginia's 3rd congressional district, 2016[5]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Evan Jenkins (incumbent) 140,741 67.9
Democratic Matt Detch 49,708 24.0
Libertarian Zane Lawhorn 16,883 8.1
Total votes 207,332 100.0
Republican hold

References

  1. ^ Johnson, Shauna (March 20, 2015). "McKinley "seriously considering" gubernatorial run in 2016". West Virginia MetroNews. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  2. ^ Hicks, Ian (June 1, 2015). "McKinley Won't Run for Governor". The Intelligencer & Wheeling News Register. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Official 2016 Primary Election Results". West Virginia Secretary of State. Retrieved May 25, 2016.
  4. ^ "Ex-WV Delegate Manypenny files early papers for Congress". WOWK-TV. Associated Press. April 28, 2015. Archived from the original on May 1, 2015. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  5. ^ a b c "West Virginia Statewide Results General Election – November 8, 2016 Official Results". West Virginia Secretary of State. November 8, 2016. Archived from the original on December 25, 2016. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
  6. ^ Emke, Dave (March 7, 2016). "Savitt posing challenge to Mooney in W.Va.'s 2nd District". The Journal. Archived from the original on March 9, 2016. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
  7. ^ "Hoppy Kercheval: Ken Reed willing to take on a challenge". Charleston Daily Mail. April 27, 2015. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  8. ^ "Former W.Va. delegate to run for congressional seat". The Herald-Mail. January 11, 2016. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
  9. ^ Pathé, Simone (May 6, 2015). "Democrat Eyes Rematch in West Virginia's 2nd District". Roll Call. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  10. ^ MetroNews Staff (February 18, 2016). "Former WV Democrat Party Chairman Casey endorses Hunt for 2nd District Congressman". wvmetronews.com. West Virginia MetroNews Network. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
  11. ^ "TEACHERS ENDORSE PEYTON". peytonforcongress.org. Peyton for Congress 2016. May 3, 2016. Archived from the original on May 11, 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
  12. ^ "VoteVets PAC endorses Cory Simpson". votevets.org. VoteVets PAC. Archived from the original on February 22, 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
  13. ^ "WV Gov. Tomblin undecided on potential Congressional run". WOWK-TV. Associated Press. April 28, 2015. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  14. ^ Kercheval, Hoppy (May 6, 2015). "Dems searching for challenger in WV-3". West Virginia MetroNews. Retrieved June 17, 2015.

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