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County results Rockefeller: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% Wolfe: 50–60% 60–70% | |||||||||||||||||
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Elections in West Virginia |
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The 2008 United States Senate election in West Virginia was held on November 4. Incumbent senator Jay Rockefeller won re-election to a fifth term in a landslide, defeating Republican Jay Wolfe who had returned from the 2002 Senate election by a 27-point margin. Despite this overwhelming win, this remains the last time that a Democrat has won West Virginia's Class 2 U.S. Senate seat. In both of the two subsequent elections for the seat, Republicans have swept every single county.