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Election Day saw Mon County shift from red to blue

By David Beard dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – While West Virginia as a whole saw a mild blue surge in Tuesday's election, Monongalia County voted almost solid blue. Preston remained solidly red while Marion hovered in the purplish-red. Mon's blue wave was apparent in the U.S. ...

Blue Splash: W.Va. Democratic candidates add to statehouse numbers

CHARLESTON – A blue wave swept across the nation Tuesday day, flipping both chambers of Congress to Democratic control. The State Capitol Building was splashed by the water from that wave, with Democratic statehouse candidates in deep-red West Virginia making gains. According to an ...

Veteran pols, incumbents, dominate in Marion County races

FAIRMONT – If you were looking for familiar faces Tuesday night in Marion County, you easily found them on the election ballot. In the contests for House of Delegates, Republican incumbent and former Marion County commissioner Guy Ward handily won in the 74th District over his Democrat ...

Results in W.Va. Legislative races

The West Virginia Legislature will be seeing some new faces in January after Tuesday's midterm general election. Senate District 2 Toby Heaney is heading to West Virginia’s 2nd District as senator. Heaney, an economist and combat veteran who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom, bested his ...

Local and state election results

Monongalia County Commission Julie Knight admitted to being “very shocked” back on May 12 when she soundly defeated incumbent Jeff Arnett in the Democratic primary for the Eastern District seat on the Monongalia County Commission. Knight, a newcomer to elected politics, did it again on ...

Trifecta: Capito heads back to U.S. Senate for third term

CHARLESTON - Shelley Moore Capito, a Republican and West Virginia's senior member of the congressional delegation, will return to the U.S. Senate next year to begin serving her third six-year term on Capitol Hill. WV MetroNews, the Associated Press and Decision Desk HQ called the election in ...