Elections Division

Upcoming Elections

 2014 Primary Election: May 13, 2014

 2014 General Election: November 4, 2014

2013 Municipal Elections

The canvass and declaration of election results should have been completed on Monday, June 17. The West Virginia Election Code regarding swearing in new municipal officers is listed below. The newly elected officers should take office on Monday, July 1.

 §8-5-8. Oath of Office
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 Every person elected or appointed to an office in any municipality shall, unless otherwise provided in the charter  thereof, within twenty days after his election or appointement and before he shall enter upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe to the oath of office prescribed for district officers, which may be done before any person authorized by law to administer oaths, or before the mayor or recorder of such municipality. The oath, together with the certificate of the officer administering the same, shall be filed, recorded and preserved in the office of the recorder of the municipality, and a certified copy of such oath and certificate shall be filed and recorded in the office of the clerk of the county court of the county in which the municipality of the major portion of the territory thereof is located.

§8-5-9. Terms of Office.

Except as otherwise provided in the charter of any municipality, the terms of all officers elected after the first election in municipalities holding biennial elections shall commence on the first day of July following their election and shall be for two years, and in municipalities holding quadrennial elections the terms of all elected officers shall commence on the first day of July following their election and shall be for four years.

All municipal officers, whether elected at the first election of officers or at regular municipal elections, or appointed, shall hold their offices until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified according to law, unless sooner removed from office according to law. Officers in office when this article becomes effective shall hold their offices subject to the provisions of the immediately preceding sentence hereof.