Volume 120 Issue 1 Article 8 September 2017 Creating Single-Member House Districts in West Virginia Charles R. Russell Steptoe & Johnson PLLC Follow this and additional works at: https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/wvlr Part of the State and Local Government Law Commons Recommended Citation Charles R. Russell, Creating Single-Member House Districts in West Virginia, 120 W. Va. L. Rev. (2017). Available at: https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/wvlr/vol120/iss1/8 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the WVU College of Law at The Research Repository @ WVU. It has been accepted for inclusion in West Virginia Law Review by an authorized editor of The Research Repository @ WVU. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Russell: Creating Single-Member House Districts in West Virginia CREATING SINGLE-MEMBER HOUSE DISTRICTS IN WEST VIRGINIA Charles R. Russell* I. INTRODUCTION............................................ 186 II. ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE.............................. 186 III. THE EVOLUTION OF MULTI-MEMBER DISTRICTS IN WEST VIRGINIA ............................................... 188 A. ConstitutionalAuthority .................. ....... 188 B. Statutory Authority............................. 189 IV. TRENDING IN OTHER STATES AND EVIDENCE OF SUPPORT IN WEST VIRGINIA. ................................. ....... 189 A. A Look to Other States .................... ...... 190 B. Growing Support in West Virginia ........... ....... 191 V. CREATING A BETTER GOVERNMENT IN WEST VIRGINIA............. 192 A. Single-Member Districts Create More Accessible andMore Accountable Delegates ................... ....... 192 B. Single-Member Districts Will Decrease the Cost of Campaigns .................................. 193 C. Single-Member DistrictsMore Accurately Reflect the Composition of the State's Population......... ........ 194 VI. APPROACHES TO CREATING SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS IN WEST VIRGINIA. ................................. ...... 195 A. Amending the Constitution of West Virginia ....