It controls no statewide or federal elected offices and holds very few seats in both houses of the state legislature.

[2] The West Virginia Democratic Party holds minorities in both state legislative chambers.

Incumbent governor Jim Justice was elected as a Democrat in 2016, but switched parties to Republican in August 2017.

[6] The party organization is governed by the West Virginia State Democratic Executive Committee.

The chair is Delegate Mike Pushkin[7] and the vice chairwoman is Wheeling attorney Teresa Toriseva.