Birthname: | James Will Morefield |
Office: | Member of the Virginia House of Delegates |
Constituency: | 3rd district (2010–2024) 43rd district (2024–present) |
Term Start: | January 13, 2010 |
Preceded: | Dan C. Bowling |
Succeeded: | incumbent |
Birth Date: | 10 January 1984 |
Birth Place: | Bluefield, West Virginia, U.S. |
Party: | Republican |
Residence: | Tazewell, Virginia, U.S. |
Alma Mater: | Midwestern State University King University |
Committees: | Militia, Police, and Public Safety Counties, Cities, and Towns General Laws Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources |
Website: | http://www.morefieldfordelegate.com |
James William Joseph Morefield (born January 10, 1984) is an American politician of the Republican Party.
On November 3, 2009, Will Morefield defeated Democratic incumbent Dan Bowling in the race for Virginia's 3rd District in the Virginia House of Delegates. Morefield's election was considered the beginning of Southwest Virginia's shift from being an ancestral Democratic voting area to a solidly Republican voting area.[1]
In the 2016 election cycle Morefield endorsed former Florida Governor Jeb Bush for president, but later switched his endorsement for U.S. Senator for Florida Marco Rubio.[2] After Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination for President in 2016, Morefield endorsed and supported Trump.[3]
Date | Election | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Virginia House of Delegates, 3rd district | ||||||
Nov 3, 2009[4] | General | James W. "Will" Morefield | Republican | 8,665 | 57.10 | |
Danny C. "Dan" Bowling | Democratic | 6,499 | 42.82 | |||
Write Ins | 10 | 0.06 | ||||
Incumbent lost; seat switched from Democratic to Republican | ||||||
Nov 8, 2011[5] | General | James W. "Will" Morefield | Republican | 13,316 | 59.67 | |
Russell Vern Presley II | Democratic | 8,994 | 40.30 | |||
Write Ins | 6 | 0.02 | ||||
Nov 5, 2013[6] | General | James W. "Will" Morefield | Republican | 12,291 | 70.52 | |
James M. O'Quinn | Democratic | 5,188 | 29.65 | |||
Write Ins | 17 | 0.10 | ||||
Nov 3, 2015[7] | General | James W. "Will" Morefield | Republican | 14,325 | 99.2 | |
Write Ins | 119 | 0.8 | ||||
Nov 7, 2017[8] | General | James W. "Will" Morefield | Republican | 13,572 | 78.1 | |
William C. Bunch, Jr. | Democratic | 3,759 | 21.6 | |||
Write Ins | 41 | 0.2 | ||||
Nov 5, 2019[9] | General | James W. "Will" Morefield | Republican | 17,099 | 98.03 | |
Write Ins | 343 | 1.97 |