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List of West Virginia Senate districts

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Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ126052803 ↗
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The U.S. state of West Virginia currently has seventeen state senate districts, each represented by two members of the West Virginia Senate.

Current districts and senators

Each district sends two senators to Charleston. Black lines on the map indicate state and district boundaries, and gray lines indicate county boundaries.

Historical and present district boundaries

Below is a table of West Virginia's state senate district boundary maps, presented chronologically. All redistricting events that took place in West Virginia in 1863 and between 1901 and the current boundaries as of August 2024 are shown.

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