See also: 2020 United States state treasurer elections.
Election Name: | 2020 West Virginia State Treasurer election |
Country: | West Virginia |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2016 West Virginia elections#Treasurer |
Previous Year: | 2016 |
Next Election: | 2024 West Virginia State Treasurer election |
Next Year: | 2024 |
Election Date: | November 3, 2020 |
Image1: | 3x4.svg |
Nominee1: | Riley Moore |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 425,745 |
Percentage1: | 56.31% |
Nominee2: | John Perdue |
Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote2: | 330,316 |
Percentage2: | 43.69% |
Map Size: | 275px |
State Treasurer | |
Before Election: | John Perdue |
Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
After Election: | Riley Moore |
After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
The 2020 West Virginia State Treasurer election was held on November 3, 2020, to elect the state treasurer of West Virginia. Incumbent Democratic treasurer John Perdue lost re-election to a seventh term by Republican nominee, former state delegate Riley Moore. Primary elections were held on June 9. Perdue and Moore both won their primaries unopposed.
This was the first time since W. S. Johnson's victory in 1928 that a Republican was elected to the state treasures office.[1]
Moore won all three congressional districts.[4]
District | Perdue | Moore | Representative | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
41% | 59% | David McKinley | ||||
46% | 54% | Alex Mooney | ||||
45% | 55% | Carol Miller |