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- El 2.º distrito congresional es un distrito congresional que elige a un Representante para la Cámara de Representantes de los Estados Unidos por el estado de Virginia Occidental. Según la Oficina del Censo, en 2011 el distrito tenía una población de 645 048 habitantes. Actualmente el distrito está representado por la Republicana Shelley Moore Capito. (es)
- West Virginia's 2nd congressional district currently stretches from the Ohio River border with Ohio to the Potomac River border with Maryland and the border with Virginia. It includes the capital city of Charleston and the rapidly growing residential communities of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle and Potomac Highlands regions connected by a narrow strip of nearly unpopulated counties. It is 20 miles (32 km) wide and 300 miles (480 km) long. As a result of the state losing a seat as a result of the 2020 United States census the state legislature redrew the map, totally changing the district's boundaries for the 2022 congressional election and the following 10 years. The district is currently represented by Alex Mooney, a Republican. West Virginia had four congressional seats from 1973 to 1993. Previously, much of the western portion of the current 2nd District had been in the 3rd District, based in Charleston. The eastern portion of the district had been in the 2nd District, which had been anchored in Martinsburg and Morgantown for all but a few years since statehood. For all but two years from 1949 to 1993, it was held by the Democratic Staggers family--Harley O. Staggers from 1949 to 1981 and Harley "Buckey" Staggers Jr. from 1983 to 1993. When West Virginia lost a seat following the 1990 census, the state legislature divided Staggers's district among the remaining three districts. Much of Staggers's old territory was merged with the 3rd District, represented by five-term Democrat Bob Wise and renumbered the 2nd. However, Staggers's home in Mineral County wound up in the 1st District, where he was routed in the Democratic primary by Alan Mollohan. Wise represented the new district until 2000, when he ran for and won West Virginia's governorship. Following the 2010 census, Mason County was transferred to the 3rd District, which changed the character of the district only slightly. This change took effect for the 2012 election. The district is very expensive to campaign in, because six counties on the district's eastern fringe are in the very expensive Washington, D.C. television market. The two main parts, Charleston and the Eastern Panhandle, have very little in common and very little interaction. The district is slightly more conservative and prosperous than the rest of West Virginia, though like the state's other districts, it tends to give congressmen long tenures in Washington. The 2000 election that resulted in Capito's victory marked the first open-seat race in the district since 1945. The old 2nd District had only five congressmen from 1933 until its elimination in 1993. George W. Bush carried the district twice in 2000 with 54% of the vote and in 2004 with 57% of the vote. John McCain also won the district in 2008 with 54.63% of the vote while Barack Obama received 43.77%. (en)
- 西弗吉尼亞州第二國會選區（英語：Second Congressional District of West Virginia）是美國西弗吉尼亞州三個眾議院選區之一，始於1863年，2013年起位於該州的中部。 該選區在2000年以後的總統選區一直支持共和黨，在眾議員選舉方面，一直處於共和民主兩黨競爭的局面。目前當區眾議員為2015年上任的、共和黨的阿萊克斯·穆尼。 (zh)
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