- Source: 1996 West Virginia gubernatorial election
The 1996 West Virginia gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 1996 to elect the Governor of West Virginia. Republican Cecil Underwood, who had previously been the Governor of West Virginia from 1957 to 1961, defeated Democratic State Senator Charlotte Pritt. Concurrently, the state voted the opposite way federally, choosing Democratic U.S. Presidential nominee, incumbent Bill Clinton over Republican nominee Bob Dole in the Presidential election that year.
Pritt was the first woman to secure the West Virginia gubernatorial nomination of either of the two major political parties. This was the last election in which a Republican was elected Governor of West Virginia until 2020. Former Republican Jim Justice was elected in the 2016 election as a Democrat and later switched back to the Republican Party seven months into his term, making him the first Republican governor since 2001 when Underwood left office.
Democratic primary
= Candidates
=Charlotte Pritt, former State Senator from Charleston and candidate for Governor in 1992
Joe Manchin III, State Senator from Fairmont
Jim Lees, attorney
Larrie Bailey, former State Treasurer
Bobbie Edward Myers
Lyle Sattes
Bob Henry Baber
Louis J. Davis
Frank Rochetti
Richard E. Moon
Fred Schell
Republican primary
= Candidates
=Cecil Underwood, Former Governor and nominee for U.S. Senate in 1960
Jon McBride, Retired Astronaut, Navy Veteran, and Businessman
David McKinley, Former State Delegate, and Former State Party Chair
Results
References
See also
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