- Lead
- 1,179
- Total
- 7,783
- vs nation
- R+13.7
West Virginia 58th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,154
- Total
- 8,360
- vs nation
- R+18.3
- Lead
- 1,696
- Total
- 7,799
- vs nation
- R+23.8
- Lead
- 1,021
- Total
- 7,564
- vs nation
- R+17.4
- Lead
- 161
- Total
- 8,311
- vs nation
- R+9.2
- Lead
- 257
- Total
- 8,901
- vs nation
- R+0.4
- Lead
- 66
- Total
- 7,692
- vs nation
- D+0.3
- Lead
- 999
- Total
- 7,777
- vs nation
- D+4.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+15.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 18,1262024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,439 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 12.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $53,5032024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 83.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 1.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+27.9 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+27.6 in 1884MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Delegate District 59, WV · twin score 95.5
presidential history
Party record book
West Virginia 58th State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
64.0%
6,975 votes · D+27.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 58.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
63.7%
6,670 votes · R+27.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James G. Blaine, 1884 · 63.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
6,975votes
64.0% of the vote · D+27.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 5,769 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
6,670votes
63.7% of the vote · R+27.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 6,021 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
John W. Davis1924
+16.3pts D vs U.S.
Place R+8.9 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +14.3 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+23.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+21.7 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +18.3 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
West Virginia 58th State House District sits in southern Appalachia. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 27.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 27.6 points in 1884. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 15.1 points.
A population of 18,126, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $53,503 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Delegate District 59 and Delegate District 53.
The state-house districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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