We are more than three months away from the candidate filing period for the 2026 midterm elections.

All 100 members of the House of Delegates and 17 members of the 34-member state Senate will be up for election next year. Unfortunately for the West Virginia Democratic Party, most if not all — of those elections will be settled during the party primaries on May 12 and the early voting period that precedes that.

Republicans control supermajorities in both bodies, with 91 Republicans in the House and 32 Republicans in the Senate. That’s the peak of GOP legislative control at the moment, so the 2026 elections will determine whether they add to their supermajority control or if voters begin slowly sending Democratic candidates back to the Legislature.

While the filing period for incumbents a

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