Primaries:
- Congressional and State primaries: Open partisan w/ partisan registration
- Presidential primaries: Open
PRIMARY ELECTIONS STATE BY STATE
West Virginia
Registration:
- Voters may or may not choose to affiliate with a political party.
- 23% of voters in West Virginia are registered as “no party” or “other.”
Details of voting in congressional and state primary elections:
- Parties decide who may participate in their primary elections
- The two major parties both allow unaffiliated voters to participate in party primaries.
- Unaffiliated voters choose one party's ballot.
- Party members must vote in their party's primary.