West Virginia House District 78
Tue, Nov 3 · Represented by Geno Chiarelli Republican · Member list as of Oct 28
No published poll names both candidates.Last result · 2024 general: Geno Chiarelli (R) 55.7, Diane Market Gaston (D) 44.3
- Last election
- Geno Chiarelli (Republican) won by 11.4 points, 2024
- On the 2026 ballot
- 2 candidates
Side by side
Left column: ChiarelliRight column: Wendell
- Races won and lost
- 2-0
- None on file
- Years since first win on file
- 4
- Not available
How these are counted
Wins and losses count the races in our results files, the same as each profile.
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Candidates on the ballot
- Michael WendellDemocratic
- Geno ChiarelliIncumbentRepublican
Party nominees only, not the certified ballot.
Source: candidates.wvsos.gov, dated Oct 28
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History (2 elections for this seat)
- Votes for listed candidates
- 8,335
- Election day
- November 5, 2024
- District map
- Older district map (2022 to 2024)
West Virginia House of Delegates District 78, 2022 to 2024, 2024, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanGeno ChiarelliWon Republican 4,64155.7% DemocraticDiane Market Gaston Democratic 3,69444.3% - Votes for listed candidates
- 5,397
- Election day
- November 8, 2022
- District map
- Older district map (2022)
West Virginia House of Delegates District 78, 2022 to 2024, 2022, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanGeno ChiarelliWon Republican 3,05656.6% DemocraticJeffrey A. Budkey Democratic 2,34143.4%
- 2024: MEDSL 2024 official precinct returns (individual_states zips), retrieved Oct 28, 2026. Compiled by MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL) from official returns; not an official source
- 2022: State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022 (Carl Klarner, Harvard Dataverse), retrieved Oct 28, 2026. Compiled by Carl Klarner (Harvard Dataverse) from official returns; not an official source
Last contest in this district on file: 2024.
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Election Wrld. (2026). West Virginia House District 78, election results 2022 to 2024. https://www.electionwrld.com/wv/house-of-delegates/78. Retrieved October 30, 2026.
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Sources: Census TIGERweb Legislative MapServer (120th CDs layer 0, 119th CDs layer 4, 2026 SLD upper layer 1 and lower layer 2) (US Census Bureau, public domain), retrieved Oct 28, 2026; Open Civic Data division identifiers (census_autogenerated us_sldl/us_sldu and openstates state files); also (sld-recent.json): Open Civic Data division identifiers (country-us) (CC0 (repository); also (sld-recent.json): CC0 1.0), retrieved Oct 28, 2026; Open States people (current) CSVs (CC0-1.0 (Open States people data)), retrieved Oct 28, 2026, compiled by Open States volunteers and staff (rosters from state legislature sites) from official returns, not an official source; MEDSL 2024 official precinct returns (individual_states zips) (Not stated in the GitHub repository (an earlier label said "MIT (repo)", which the repository does not support). MEDSL's Harvard Dataverse records are CC0 1.0, but these GitHub files were not checksum-matched to the Dataverse files, so CC0 is not claimed for them.), retrieved Oct 28, 2026, compiled by MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL) from official returns, not an official source; State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022 (Carl Klarner, Harvard Dataverse) (CC0 1.0), retrieved Oct 28, 2026, compiled by Carl Klarner (Harvard Dataverse) from official returns, not an official source.
District id: ocd-division/country:us/state:wv/sldl:78
DataState data (JSON)Sources: State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022 (Carl Klarner, Harvard Dataverse)Data as of Oct 28, 2026