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West Virginia 2008 vs 2016: county swing

55 of 55 counties moved toward the Republican ticket; 7 changed hands.

Barbour County: swing R+34.3Braxton County: swing R+44.9Calhoun County: swing R+45.1Gilmer County: swing R+35.7Kanawha County: swing R+20.2Marion County: swing R+34.0Monongalia County: swing R+14.1Putnam County: swing R+24.4Summers County: swing R+35.3Webster County: swing R+64.1Grant County: swing R+25.9Greenbrier County: swing R+28.8Hampshire County: swing R+32.4Harrison County: swing R+26.3Jefferson County: swing R+20.1Logan County: swing R+52.4Marshall County: swing R+38.4Mason County: swing R+41.8Mingo County: swing R+56.8Morgan County: swing R+30.8Ohio County: swing R+20.8Pocahontas County: swing R+30.3Randolph County: swing R+31.0Roane County: swing R+41.0Taylor County: swing R+31.2Tucker County: swing R+28.4Upshur County: swing R+23.5Wayne County: swing R+33.2Wetzel County: swing R+44.2Wirt County: swing R+32.3Wood County: swing R+19.1Raleigh County: swing R+26.7Doddridge County: swing R+21.2Hancock County: swing R+29.1Lincoln County: swing R+45.6Mercer County: swing R+27.6Pleasants County: swing R+34.0Ritchie County: swing R+25.0Tyler County: swing R+36.7Wyoming County: swing R+44.9Berkeley County: swing R+24.1Boone County: swing R+65.0Brooke County: swing R+39.8Cabell County: swing R+15.3Clay County: swing R+48.0Fayette County: swing R+36.8McDowell County: swing R+59.9Mineral County: swing R+27.2Monroe County: swing R+32.6Pendleton County: swing R+30.5Preston County: swing R+29.3Nicholas County: swing R+52.2Hardy County: swing R+28.0Jackson County: swing R+33.4Lewis County: swing R+23.0
Red: toward the Republican ticket. Blue: toward the Democratic ticket.
County20082016SwingVotes 2008Votes 2016
Boone County flipped D+10.7 R+54.3 R+65.0 8,370 8,683
Webster County flipped D+5.5 R+58.6 R+64.1 3,057 2,978
McDowell County flipped D+8.5 R+51.4 R+59.9 6,430 6,203
Mingo County R+12.0 R+68.8 R+56.8 8,338 9,510
Logan County R+10.8 R+63.2 R+52.4 13,465 12,359
Nicholas County R+4.8 R+57.0 R+52.2 9,361 9,491
Clay County R+10.3 R+58.3 R+48.0 3,265 2,972
Lincoln County R+8.9 R+54.5 R+45.6 6,835 7,066
Calhoun County R+15.3 R+60.4 R+45.1 2,429 2,617
Braxton County flipped D+1.4 R+43.5 R+44.9 5,409 5,090
Wyoming County R+25.1 R+70.0 R+44.9 7,530 7,831
Wetzel County R+6.2 R+50.4 R+44.2 6,454 6,265
Mason County R+12.9 R+54.7 R+41.8 10,603 10,186
Roane County R+7.8 R+48.8 R+41.0 5,563 5,247
Brooke County R+2.4 R+42.2 R+39.8 9,857 9,613
Marshall County R+12.6 R+51.0 R+38.4 14,001 13,216
Fayette County R+2.7 R+39.5 R+36.8 15,194 15,337
Tyler County R+31.4 R+68.1 R+36.7 3,741 3,654
Gilmer County R+17.5 R+53.2 R+35.7 2,521 2,543
Summers County R+11.3 R+46.6 R+35.3 5,316 4,862
Barbour County R+20.3 R+54.6 R+34.3 6,232 6,054
Marion County flipped D+0.5 R+33.5 R+34.0 23,607 23,029
Pleasants County R+21.2 R+55.2 R+34.0 2,975 3,150
Jackson County R+18.7 R+52.1 R+33.4 12,236 12,187
Wayne County R+18.2 R+51.4 R+33.2 15,430 15,182
Monroe County R+24.8 R+57.4 R+32.6 5,575 5,805
Hampshire County R+26.9 R+59.3 R+32.4 8,347 8,608
Wirt County R+30.7 R+63.0 R+32.3 2,326 2,422
Taylor County R+18.4 R+49.6 R+31.2 6,203 6,538
Randolph County R+14.0 R+45.0 R+31.0 10,833 10,876
Morgan County R+23.5 R+54.3 R+30.8 7,276 7,654
Pendleton County R+21.3 R+51.8 R+30.5 3,395 3,225
Pocahontas County R+12.7 R+43.0 R+30.3 3,642 3,646
Preston County R+26.5 R+55.8 R+29.3 11,796 12,659
Hancock County R+15.3 R+44.4 R+29.1 13,220 12,702
Greenbrier County R+12.3 R+41.1 R+28.8 13,732 14,066
Tucker County R+23.8 R+52.2 R+28.4 3,507 3,475
Hardy County R+27.2 R+55.2 R+28.0 5,407 5,643
Mercer County R+27.6 R+55.2 R+27.6 21,022 22,982
Mineral County R+33.5 R+60.7 R+27.2 11,547 11,564
Raleigh County R+25.9 R+52.6 R+26.7 28,259 29,618
Harrison County R+13.3 R+39.6 R+26.3 31,872 27,960
Grant County R+51.5 R+77.4 R+25.9 4,218 4,956
Ritchie County R+46.4 R+71.4 R+25.0 3,846 4,075
Putnam County R+23.5 R+47.9 R+24.4 24,780 24,893
Berkeley County R+13.0 R+37.1 R+24.1 37,292 42,850
Upshur County R+33.3 R+56.8 R+23.5 8,971 9,218
Lewis County R+33.7 R+56.7 R+23.0 6,606 6,928
Doddridge County R+49.1 R+70.3 R+21.2 3,018 2,840
Ohio County R+10.7 R+31.5 R+20.8 19,540 17,938
Kanawha County R+0.4 R+20.6 R+20.2 82,484 75,690
Jefferson County flipped D+4.8 R+15.3 R+20.1 22,545 24,147
Wood County R+28.7 R+47.8 R+19.1 36,002 35,615
Cabell County R+10.1 R+25.4 R+15.3 34,592 33,085
Monongalia County flipped D+3.8 R+10.3 R+14.1 33,379 36,048

Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data