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FAIRMONT â As the West Virginia Legislature prepares to redistrict using 2020 census data, lawmakers also plan to eliminate its use of multi-member house districts.
The goal is to place each of the stateâs 100 house delegates into 100 separate districts.
âThe redistricting process is basically redrawing the lines of where these legislative districts are, what street they end on and where another begins and that process occurs after census data is obtained from the federal government,â said Democrat Del. Joey Garcia, one of three house delegates who represent Marion County in District 50.
Currently, all voters get to vote for three people and the top three vote recipients from that yearâs general election are the ones who get to represent the district. In 2022, those three members will be broken into separate districts.