West Virginia House of Delegates District 86

Tue, Nov 3 · Represented by Bryan Ward Republican · Member list as of Oct 28

Last result · 2024 general (different candidates): Bryan Ward (R) 100.0

Earlier results: Bryan Ward (Republican) won by 54.8 points, 2022

Past results

West Virginia House of Delegates District 86, 2022 to 2024, 2024, every candidate
Candidate	Party	Votes and share	Share
RepublicanBryan WardWon	Republican	6,623100.0%	100.0%

Votes for listed candidates: 4,904
Election day: November 8, 2022
District map: Same as today

West Virginia House of Delegates District 86, 2022 to 2024, 2022, every candidate
Candidate	Party	Votes and share	Share
RepublicanBryan WardWon(incumbent)	Republican	3,79677.4%	77.4%
DemocraticJameson Paul Freeman	Democratic	1,10822.6%	22.6%

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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The current holder, Bryan Ward, is not on the candidate list.

Party nominees only, not the certified ballot.

Source: candidates.wvsos.gov, dated Oct 28

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Election Wrld. (2026). West Virginia House of Delegates District 86, election results 2022 to 2024. https://www.electionwrld.com/wv/house-of-delegates/86. Retrieved October 31, 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.

DataState data (JSON)Sources: State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022 (Carl Klarner, Harvard Dataverse), MEDSL 2024 official precinct returnsData as of Oct 28, 2026