2024 United States Senate election in West Virginia

2024 United States Senate election in West Virginia

November 5, 2024
 
Nominee Jim Justice Glenn Elliott
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 514,079 207,548
Percentage 68.75% 27.76%

Justice:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%

U.S. senator before election

Joe Manchin
Independent

Elected U.S. senator

Jim Justice
Republican

The 2024 United States Senate election in West Virginia was held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of West Virginia. Republican governor Jim Justice won his first term in office, defeating Democratic Wheeling mayor Glenn Elliott. He succeeded independent incumbent Joe Manchin, who did not seek a third full term.

Manchin, a Democrat until his final year in the Senate, announced he would not run for re-election shortly before switching to independent. He endorsed Elliott, who won the Democratic nomination with 45% of the vote against political activist Zach Shrewsbury and businessman Don Blankenship. Justice won the Republican nomination with 62% of the vote against Congressman Alex Mooney.

Due to West Virginia's heavy Republican lean, the absence of Manchin, Justice's personal popularity, and being held concurrently with a presidential race in a state in which Donald Trump was expected to win by a wide margin, a Republican pickup for this seat was considered a foregone conclusion in 2024. Justice was sworn in as a Senator on January 14, 2025, giving elected Republicans control of both of West Virginia’s Senate seats for the first time since 1931 and giving the state an entirely Republican congressional delegation for the first time since 1923. This was the first time since the 1956 special election that a Republican won West Virginia's Class I Senate Seat.