List of West Virginia state legislatures

The legislature of the U.S. state of West Virginia has convened many times since statehood became effective on June 20, 1863.

Legislatures

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colspan=4 style="text-align: center; background-color:#E6E6FA;" | West Virginia Constitution of 1863{{citation needed|date=August 2024}}

1st West Virginia legislature

| 1863

| 1864

| 1865

| 1866

| 1867

| 1868

| 1869

| 1870

| 1871 {{citation |title=Journal of the House of Delegates |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011483635 |via=HathiTrust }}. 1871-1977

| January 16, 1872

| February 29, 1872

colspan=4 style="text-align: center; background-color:#E6E6FA;" | West Virginia Constitution of 1872{{citation needed|date=August 2024}}

| November 19, 1872

| December 1873

| 1875

| 1877

| 1879

| 1881

| 1883

| 1885

| 1887

| 1889{{citation |title=Manual of the Legislature |location=Charleston, W. Va. |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007909493 |via=HathiTrust }}. 1889-1968

| 1891

| 1893

| 1895

| 1897

| 1899

| 1901

| 1903

| 1905

| 1907

| 1909

| 1911

| 1913

| 1915

| 1917{{citation |title=West Virginia legislative hand book and manual and official register, 1917 |via=Internet Archive |url=https://archive.org/details/westvirginialegi1917west }}

| 1919

| 1921

| 1923

| 1925

| 1927

| 1929

| 1931

| 1933

| 1935

| 1937

| 1939

| 1941

| 1942

| 1944

| 1947

| 1949

| 1951

| 1953

| 1955

| 1957

| 1959

| 1961

| 1963

| 1965

| 1967

| 1969

| 1971

| 1973

| 1975

| 1977

| 1979

| 1981

| 1983

| 1985

| 1987

| 1989

| 1991

| 1993

| 1995

| 1997

| 1999

| November 1998: Senate

| 2001

| November 2000: Senate

| 2003

{{ill|77th West Virginia legislature| qid=Q104863804}}
members of House, Senate

| 2005

| November 2004: Senate

{{ill|78th West Virginia legislature| qid=Q104863806}}
members of House, Senate

| 2007

| November 2006: Senate

{{ill|79th West Virginia legislature| qid=Q104863807}}
members of House, Senate

| 2009

| November 2008: Senate

{{ill|80th West Virginia legislature| qid=Q104863809}}
members of House, Senate

| 2011

| November 2, 2010: Senate{{citation |url=https://ballotpedia.org/West_Virginia_Legislature |work=ballotpedia.org |title=West Virginia Legislature |access-date=2024-08-01 }}

| 2013

| November 6, 2012: Senate

| January 14, 2015{{citation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141120103406/http://www.wvlegislature.gov:80/ |url= http://www.wvlegislature.gov:80/ |archive-date=2014-11-20 |title=West Virginia Legislature |work=wvlegislature.gov |via=Wayback Machine }}

| November 4, 2014: Senate

| 2017

| November 8, 2016: Senate

| 2019

| November 6, 2018: House, Senate

{{ill|85th West Virginia legislature| qid=Q104863824}}
members

| 2021

| November 3, 2020: House, Senate

86th West Virginia legislature

| 2023

| November 8, 2022: House, Senate

87th West Virginia legislature

| 2025

| November 5, 2024: House, Senate

References

External links

Digital Public Library of America. Assorted materials related to [https://dp.la/search?q=West+Virginia+Legislature* West Virginia Legislature]
{{citation |title= Guide to Law Online: U.S. West Virginia: Legislative |url= https://guides.loc.gov/law-us-West-Virginia/legislative |publisher=Library of Congress |location=Washington DC |work= guides.loc.gov }}

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