WEST VIRGINIA

Primaries:

• Democratic congressional and state primaries: mixed

• Republican congressional and state primaries: mixed

• Democratic Presidential primary: mixed
  

• Republican Presidential primary: mixed
  

Primary Type Definitions

Registration:

• Voters may or may not choose to affiliate with a political party.

• 19% of voters in West Virginia are registered as "no party" or "other."

Details of voting in congressional and state primary elections:

• Parties decide who may participate in their primary elections.  

• The two major parties both allow unaffiliated voters to participate in party primaries.

• Unaffiliated voters choose one party's ballot.

• Party members must vote in their party's primary.