West Virginia Legislature
How your West Virginia legislators vote
Find your state senators and your delegate. See how often they vote with the leader of their chamber and with their party, how often they didn't vote, and how many of their bills passed, in the 2025 and 2026 sessions.
Your West Virginia legislators
The Legislature, liberal to conservative
Hover over or tap a seat to see who sits there. Your legislators are marked after you look them up.
Color shows how often each member crosses party lines toward the middle on votes that divide the parties: solid blue or red means almost never, and purple means on at least 3 in 10 of those votes. Gray seats are members too new to score. How these numbers work
District map
Select a district to see who represents it, or shade the map by a score. The list beside it links to every legislator.
Latest contested votes
Each seat is a legislator, colored by how they voted.
Each chamber and its leader
Each tick is a current member: how often they voted the same way as the leader of their chamber on contested votes.
Speaker Roger Hanshaw leads the House of Delegates.
Typical Republican: 77%. Typical Democrat: 37%. 294 contested roll calls of 1,344.
Senate President Randy Smith, a senator the Senate elected to lead it, presides over the Senate; as first in line to act as governor, he also holds the title of Lieutenant Governor.
Typical Republican: 74%. Typical Democrat: 39%. 144 contested roll calls of 1,324.
Most bills passed
Bills each current legislator was the lead sponsor of that both chambers passed this term.
West Virginia House of Delegates
- Roger Hanshaw Republican 43 bills
- J.B. Akers Republican 16 bills
- Adam Burkhammer Republican 16 bills
- Vernon Criss Republican 15 bills
- Doug Smith Republican 14 bills
West Virginia Senate
- Randy Smith Republican 46 bills
- Patricia Rucker Republican 27 bills
- Mike Oliverio Republican 14 bills
- Jack Woodrum Republican 14 bills
- Amy Grady Republican 13 bills
- Brian Helton Republican 13 bills
Source: the West Virginia Legislature's roll-call records, Journals and bill histories, Feb. 13, 2025 to March 14, 2026. How these numbers work
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