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WEST VIRGINIA's STATE LAWS REGARDING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS

  • Electoral College Votes Count: 5
  • Alocation Type: winner-takes-all
  • Electors Must Pledge: no

Elector Pledge and Electoral College Votes Allocation​

West Virginia is one of the 48 states that have a winner-takes-all rule for the Electoral College. In these States, whichever candidate receives a majority of the popular vote, or a plurality of the popular vote (less than 50 percent but more than any other candidate), takes all of the state’s Electoral votes.West Virgina is one of the states that do not require their electors to vote as pledged.

Election Code: W.V. 3-1-14

How Does West Virginia Select Its Electors?​

  • Electors of president and vice president of the United States shall be nominated as provided in section twenty-one of article five of this chapter but their names shall be omitted from the general election ballot, as provided in section two of article six of this chapter, to be voted on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November 1964, and every fourth year thereafter.

When Do The Electors Vote?​

  • The presidential electors shall meet in the office of the Governor at the capital of this state, on the day now appointed, or which shall hereafter be appointed, by the Congress of the United States and vote for the president and for the vice president of the United States in the manner prescribed by the Constitution and the laws of the United States. If any of the electors so chosen fail to attend at the time appointed, the electors present shall appoint an elector in place of each one so failing to attend, and every elector so appointed shall be entitled to vote in the same manner as if he had been originally chosen by the people. The State has five of the total 538 electoral votes that make up the U.S. Electoral College.

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