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West Virginia Senate District 14

Tue, Nov 3 · Represented by Randy Smith Republican, Jay Taylor Republican · Member list as of Oct 28

Jason ArmentroutDemocratic

No published poll names both candidates.Last result · 2024 general: Randy Smith (R) 86.7, Betsy Orndoff-Sayers (O) 13.4

Jay TaylorRepublican · Incumbent4 years since first win on file

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West Virginia Senate District 14: Jason Armentrout vs Jay Taylor

Preview card: West Virginia Senate District 14: Jason Armentrout vs Jay Taylor

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Last election
Randy Smith (Republican) won by 73.3 points, 2024
Seats
2 seats in this district
On the 2026 ballot
2 candidates

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Races won and lost
None on file
1-0
Years since first win on file
Not available
4
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Source: candidates.wvsos.gov, dated Oct 28

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West Virginia Senate districts, District 14 selectedState Senate District 9: Brian Helton, Rollan RobertsState Senate District 1: Laura Chapman, Ryan WeldState Senate District 4: Amy Grady, Eric TarrState Senate District 17: Anne Charnock, Tom TakuboState Senate District 5: Scott Fuller, Mike WoelfelState Senate District 7: Zack Maynard, Rupie PhillipsState Senate District 8: Kevan Bartlett, Glenn JeffriesState Senate District 11: Bill Hamilton, Robbie MorrisState Senate District 12: Patrick Martin, Ben QueenState Senate District 13: Joey Garcia, Mike OliverioState Senate District 2: Charles Clements, Chris RoseState Senate District 3: Mike Azinger, Trenton BarnhartState Senate District 14: Randy Smith, Jay TaylorState Senate District 16: Jason Barrett, Patricia RuckerState Senate District 15: Darren Thorne, Tom WillisState Senate District 6: Craig Hart, Mark MaynardState Senate District 10: Vince Deeds, Jack Woodrum
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History (31 elections for this seat)

Last contest in this district on file: 2024.

2 seats.

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Election Wrld. (2026). West Virginia Senate District 14, election results 1968 to 2024. https://www.electionwrld.com/wv/senate/14. 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/sldu:14

DataState data (JSON)Sources: State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022 (Carl Klarner, Harvard Dataverse), DIME (ODC-BY)Data as of Oct 28, 2026