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Ryan was first elected to the House in 1998, winning the 1st District seat of Republican Mark Neumann, a two-term incumbent who had vacated his seat to make an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate. Ryan won the Republican primary over 29-year-old pianist Michael J. Logan of Twin Lakes, and the general election against Democrat Lydia Spottswood. This made him the second-youngest member of the House.  Reelected eight times, Ryan has never received less than 55 percent of the vote. He defeated Democratic challenger Jeffrey C. Thomas in the 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006 elections. In the 2008 election, Ryan defeated Democrat Marge Krupp.  In the 2010 general election, he defeated Democrat John Heckenlively and Libertarian Joseph Kexel. In 2012, under Wisconsin election law, Ryan was allowed to run concurrently for vice president and for Congress and was not allowed to remove his name from the Congressional ballot after being nominated for the vice presidency. He faced Democratic nominee Rob Zerban. As of July 25, 2012, Ryan had over $5.4 million in his congressional campaign account, more than any other House member. He was reelected with 55 percent of his district's vote and 44 percent of the vote in his hometown, Janesville.  Zerban again challenged Ryan in the 2014 House election. Ryan won with 63 percent of his district's vote.  In the 2016 Republican primary election, Ryan faced businessman Paul Nehlen, who had been endorsed by Sarah Palin. Because of Nehlen's support for Trump, Trump publicly thanked him on Twitter and later told The Washington Post that Nehlen was "running a very good campaign", even though he did not endorse him. On August 5, 2016, Trump endorsed Ryan's re-election after pressure from fellow Republican leaders. In the August 9, 2016 primary election, Ryan overwhelmingly defeated Nehlen, taking over 84 percent of the vote. In the November general election, Ryan faced Democrat Ryan Solen and won with 65 percent of his district's vote. CANNOTANSWER
winning the 1st District seat of Republican Mark Neumann, a two-term incumbent who had vacated his seat
Paul Davis Ryan (born January 29, 1970) is an American retired politician who served as the 54th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from October 2015 to January 2019. He was the 2012 Republican Party vice presidential nominee running alongside Mitt Romney, losing to incumbent president Barack Obama and then-vice president Joe Biden.

Ryan, a native of Janesville, Wisconsin, graduated from Miami University in 1992. He spent five years working for Republicans in Washington, D.C. and returned to Wisconsin in 1997 to work at his family's construction company. Ryan was elected to Congress to represent  the following year, replacing an incumbent Republican who ran for U.S. Senate. Ryan would represent the district for 20 years. He chaired the House Budget Committee from 2011 to 2015 and briefly chaired the House Ways and Means Committee in 2015 prior to being elected Speaker of the House in October 2015 following John Boehner's retirement.

A self-proclaimed deficit hawk, Ryan was a major proponent of Social Security privatization in the mid-2000s. In the 2010s, two proposals heavily influenced by Ryan—"The Path to Prosperity" and "A Better Way"—advocated for the privatization of Medicare, the conversion of Medicaid into a block grant program, the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, and significant federal tax cuts. As Speaker, he played a key role in the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act in 2018, which partially repealed the Dodd-Frank Act. His other major piece of legislation, the American Health Care Act of 2017, passed the House but failed in the Senate by one vote.

Ryan declined to run for re-election in the 2018 midterm elections. With the Democratic Party taking control of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi succeeded Ryan as Speaker of the House.

Early life and education
Paul Davis Ryan was born on January 29, 1970 in Janesville, Wisconsin, the youngest of four children of Elizabeth "Betty" Ann (née Hutter), who later became an interior designer, and Paul Murray Ryan, a lawyer. He is a fifth-generation Wisconsinite. His father was of Irish ancestry and his mother of German and English descent. One of Ryan's paternal ancestors settled in Wisconsin prior to the Civil War. His great-grandfather, Patrick William Ryan, founded an earthmoving company in 1884, which later became P. W. Ryan and Sons and is now known as Ryan Incorporated Central. Ryan's grandfather, Stanley M. Ryan, was appointed United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin. In 2018, while filming a segment for the PBS series Finding Your Roots, Ryan learned that his DNA results included 3 percent Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.

Ryan attended St. Mary's Catholic School in Janesville, then attended Joseph A. Craig High School, where he was elected president of his junior class, and thus became prom king. As class president Ryan was a representative of the student body on the school board. Following his second year, Ryan took a job working the grill at McDonald's. He was on his high school's ski, track, and varsity soccer teams and played basketball in a Catholic recreational league. He participated in several academic and social clubs including the Model United Nations. Ryan and his family often went on hiking and skiing trips to the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

Although Ryan's father was not a lifelong heavy drinker, staying sober for nearly twenty years after his first stint in rehabilitation, he had become an alcoholic by the time Ryan was a teenager. Ryan later commented on his relationship with his father, whom he revered as a young child, stating that "[alcohol] made him more distant, irritable and stressed ... whiskey had washed away some of the best parts of the man I knew." When he was 16, Ryan found his 55-year-old father lying dead in bed of a heart attack, something Ryan later partially attributed to heavy alcohol consumption. Following the death of his father, Ryan's grandmother moved in with the family. As she had Alzheimer's, Ryan helped care for her while his mother commuted to college in Madison, Wisconsin. From the time of his father's death until his 18th birthday, Ryan received Social Security survivors benefits, which were saved for his college education. His mother later married widower Bruce Douglas.

Ryan has a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he became interested in the writings of Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Milton Friedman. He often visited the office of libertarian professor Richard Hart to discuss the theories of these economists and of Ayn Rand. Hart introduced Ryan to National Review, and with Hart's recommendation Ryan began an internship in the D.C. office of Wisconsin U.S. Senator Bob Kasten, where he worked with Kasten's foreign affairs adviser.

Ryan attended the Washington Semester program at American University. He worked summers as a salesman for Oscar Mayer and once got to drive the Wienermobile. Ryan was a member of the College Republicans, and volunteered for the congressional campaign of John Boehner. He was a member of the Delta Tau Delta social fraternity.

Early career 
Betty Ryan reportedly urged her son to accept a congressional position as a legislative aide in Senator Kasten's office, which he did after graduating in 1992. In his early years working on Capitol Hill, Ryan supplemented his income by working as a waiter, as a fitness trainer, and at other jobs.

A few months after Kasten lost to Democrat Russ Feingold in the 1992 election, Ryan became a speechwriter for Empower America (now FreedomWorks), a conservative advocacy group founded by Jack Kemp, Jeane Kirkpatrick, and William Bennett.

Ryan later worked as a speechwriter for Kemp, the Republican vice presidential candidate in the 1996 United States presidential election. Kemp became Ryan's mentor, and Ryan has said he had a "huge influence".

In 1995, Ryan became the legislative director for then-U.S. Congressman Sam Brownback of Kansas. In 1997 he returned to Wisconsin, where he worked for a year as a marketing consultant for the construction company Ryan Incorporated Central, owned by his relatives.

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

Ryan was first elected to the House in 1998, winning the 1st District seat of Republican Mark Neumann, a two-term incumbent who had vacated his seat to make an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate. 28-year-old Ryan won the Republican primary over 29-year-old pianist Michael J. Logan of Twin Lakes, and the general election against Democrat Lydia Spottswood. This made him the second-youngest member of the House.

Reelected eight times, Ryan never received less than 55 percent of the vote in a congressional election. He defeated Democratic challenger Jeffrey C. Thomas in the 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006 elections. In the 2008 election, Ryan defeated Democrat Marge Krupp.

In the 2010 general election, he defeated Democrat John Heckenlively and Libertarian Joseph Kexel. In 2012, under Wisconsin election law, Ryan was allowed to run concurrently for vice president and for Congress and was not allowed to remove his name from the Congressional ballot after being nominated for the vice presidency. He faced Democratic nominee Rob Zerban. As of July 25, 2012, Ryan had over $5.4 million in his congressional campaign account, more than any other House member. He was reelected with 55 percent of his district's vote and 44 percent of the vote in his hometown, Janesville.

Zerban again challenged Ryan in the 2014 House election. Ryan won with 63 percent of his district's vote.

In the 2016 Republican primary election, Ryan faced businessman Paul Nehlen, who had been endorsed by Sarah Palin. Because of Nehlen's support for Trump, Trump publicly thanked him on Twitter and later told The Washington Post that Nehlen was "running a very good campaign", even though he did not endorse him. On August 5, 2016, Trump endorsed Ryan's re-election after pressure from fellow Republican leaders. In the August 9, 2016 primary election, Ryan overwhelmingly defeated Nehlen, taking over 84 percent of the vote. In the November general election, Ryan faced Democrat Rebecca Solen and won with 65 percent of his district's vote.

Committee assignments

As Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ryan was not a chair or a member of any committee. Prior to his speakership, Ryan held the following assignments:
 Committee on Ways and Means (Chairman)
 Subcommittee on Health

Caucus memberships

 House Republican Caucus
 Caucus of House Conservatives Republican Study Committee
United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus
 Middle East Economic Partnership Caucus
 Prayer Caucus
 Sportsmen's Caucus (Co-Chair)
Congressional Western Caucus

Pre-Speaker congressional tenure (1999–2015) 

Ryan became the ranking Republican member of the House Budget Committee in 2007 and became chairman of the committee in 2011 after Republicans took control of the House. That same year, he was selected to deliver the Republican response to the State of the Union address.
As of August 2012, Ryan had been the primary sponsor of more than 70 bills or amendments, and only two of those bills had become law. One, passed in July 2000, renamed a post office in Ryan's district; the other, passed in December 2008, lowered the excise tax on arrow shafts. As of August 2012, Ryan had also co-sponsored 975 bills, of which 176 had passed; 22% of these bills were originally sponsored by a Democrat.

Ryan was a "reliable supporter of the [George W. Bush] administration's foreign policy priorities" who voted for the 2002 Iraq Resolution, authorizing the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

In 2010, Ryan was a member of the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (Bowles-Simpson Commission), which was tasked with developing a plan to reduce the federal deficit. He voted against the final report of the commission. In 2012, Ryan accused the nation's top military leaders of using "smoke and mirrors" to remain under budget limits passed by Congress. Ryan later said that he misspoke on the issue and called General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to apologize for his comments.

Speaker of the House

114th Congress 

On September 25, 2015, John Boehner formally announced to House Republicans his intention to resign from the speakership and the House. Among those interested in the post, Kevin McCarthy—who had wide support among Republicans, including Boehner, and Ryan, who was set to officially nominate him—was considered the presumptive favorite. His candidacy was opposed by conservative House Republicans of the Freedom Caucus, and when it became clear that caucus members would not support his candidacy, McCarthy withdrew his name from consideration on October 8. This led many Republicans to turn to Ryan as a compromise candidate. The push included a plea from Boehner, who reportedly told Ryan that he was the only person who could unite the House Republicans at a time of turmoil. Ryan released a statement that said, "While I am grateful for the encouragement I've received, I will not be a candidate." The next day however, close aides of Ryan's confirmed that Ryan had re-evaluated the situation, and was considering the possibility of a run.

Ryan confirmed on October 22, that he would seek the speakership after receiving the endorsements of two factions of House Republicans, including the conservative Freedom Caucus. Ryan, upon confirming his bid for the speakership, stated, "I never thought I'd be speaker. But I pledged to you that if I could be a unifying figure, then I would serve – I would go all in. After talking with so many of you, and hearing your words of encouragement, I believe we are ready to move forward as one, united team. And I am ready and eager to be our speaker."

On October 29, Ryan was elected Speaker, receiving 236 votes, an absolute majority of the 435-member chamber. Democrat Nancy Pelosi received 184 votes, with 12 more going to others. After the vote Ryan delivered his first remarks as speaker-elect and was sworn in by John Conyers, the dean of the House, becoming, at age , the youngest person elected as speaker since James G. Blaine (age ) in 1869. Later, he named lobbyist John David Hoppe as his Chief of Staff.

As Speaker, Ryan became the leader of the House Republicans. However, by tradition, he largely ceased taking part in debate and almost never voted from the floor. He was also not a member of any committees.

2016 presidential election 

After Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee in the 2016 presidential election on May 4, 2016, Ryan was hesitant to endorse him, stating on May 5 that he was "not ready". Ryan and Trump met in private on May 12, releasing a joint statement afterward, acknowledging their differences but stating "we recognize that there are also many important areas of common ground." On June 2, Ryan announced his support for Trump in an op-ed in The Janesville Gazette.

The following day, June 3, amid Trump's criticism of Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel, Ryan said Trump's critique "just was out of left field for my mind," and voiced disagreement with him. On June 7, Ryan disavowed Trump's comments about Curiel because he believed they were "the textbook definition of a racist comment". Nevertheless, Ryan continued to endorse Trump, believing that more Republican policies will be enacted under Donald Trump than presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. On June 15, after Kevin McCarthy stated during a conversation among Republicans, "There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump. Swear to God", Ryan interjected, "No leaks. This is how we know we're a real family here."

On July 5, after FBI Director James Comey advocated against pressing charges against Clinton for her email scandal, Ryan said Comey's decision "defies explanation" and stated that "[d]eclining to prosecute Secretary Clinton for recklessly mishandling and transmitting national security information will set a terrible precedent."

In October 2016, following the Donald Trump Access Hollywood controversy, Ryan disinvited Trump from a scheduled campaign rally, and announced that he would no longer defend or support Trump's presidential campaign but would focus instead on Congressional races. He also freed down-ticket congress members to use their own judgment about Trump, saying "you all need to do what's best for you and your district." Trump then went on to attack Ryan, accusing him and other "disloyal" Republicans of deliberately undermining his candidacy as part of "a whole sinister deal".

115th Congress 

Two months after the 2016 elections, Ryan was re-elected Speaker of the House on January 3, 2017, the opening day of the 115th Congress. He received 239 votes to House Democratic Leader Pelosi's 189 votes (with 5 more going to others).

On February 7, 2017, Ryan told reporters a replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would be introduced "this year" amid speculation Donald Trump would not act toward doing so until the following year. On March 9, Ryan gave a 30-minute lecture explaining the proposed replacement for the ACA, titled the American Health Care Act (AHCA). On March 30, Ryan said that he did not intend to work with Democrats on repealing and replacing the ACA, reasoning their involvement would lead to "government running health care." On April 4, Ryan confirmed renewed discussions of an ACA replacement, but warned that a replacement was in the "conceptual" stages of its development. On May 4, the House narrowly voted for the AHCA to repeal the ACA. On May 9, Ryan said that "a month or two" would pass before the Senate would pass its own ACA repeal and replacement legislation. The Senate created several of its own versions of the act but was unable to pass any of them.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Ryan suggested that candidate Trump should release his tax returns.

In May 2017, Ryan said Congress' goal was "calendared 2017 for tax reform" and reported progress was being made in doing so. In December 2017, both houses of Congress passed a $1.5 trillion tax bill called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which Trump signed into law on December 22. The tax law is projected to add an additional $1.5 trillion to the national debt over a decade, but the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation also estimated that the GDP level on average would be 0.7% higher during the same period. In the weeks leading up to his retirement announcement, Ryan also championed a $1.3 trillion government-wide spending bill that boosted military spending significantly. Politico noted that Ryan "clamored for austerity when he's been in the minority, trashing Democrats as profligate budget-busters, but he's happily busted budgets in the majority."

In June 2017, Ryan expressed support for strong sanctions on Russia in response to Russian interference in the 2016 elections and its annexation of the Crimea, saying that Russia's actions were "unacceptable". He urged Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Congressional oversight committees to "do their jobs so that we can get to the bottom of all of this." In July Congress passed a bill imposing new sanctions on Russia and giving Congress the power to overrule White House attempts to roll back sanctions. Both houses passed the bill with veto-proof majorities (98-2 in the Senate, 419-3 in the House), so Trump reluctantly signed it into law on August 2, 2017.

Ryan provided political cover for Devin Nunes, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, who many characterized as a source of the dysfunction in the committee as it investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election. Nunes accused the Obama administration of improperly “unmasking” the identities of Trump associates (which led Nunes' temporary recusal from the committee's Russia investigation), accused the FBI of misconduct, leaked the text messages of Senator Mark Warner (in an effort to misleadingly suggest impropriety on his behalf), and threatened to impeach FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The House Intelligence Committee was one of few so-called "select" committees in Congress, which meant that it was up to Ryan to decide the chairman of the committee.

Despite having favored comprehensive immigration earlier in his congressional career, Speaker Ryan prevented immigration legislation from being advanced in the House. When President Trump ended Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) – which granted temporary stay for undocumented immigrants brought into the United States as minors – Ryan said DACA recipients should "rest easy" because Congress would solve the problem for them, but Ryan backed no bills to protect DACA recipients.

An article in The Washington Post described Ryan's relationship with President Trump as "friendly, if occasionally uneasy," adding that "Ryan did little to check the president or encourage oversight of his administration." Ryan supported Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey, and did not support legislation to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Ryan said that legislation to protect Mueller's investigation was not "necessary".

On April 11, 2018, Ryan announced that he would not run for re-election in November, saying, "I like to think I've done my part, my little part in history to set us on a better course." In response, Trump tweeted, "Speaker Paul Ryan is a truly good man, and while he will not be seeking re-election, he will leave a legacy of achievement that nobody can question."

In May 2018, Ryan led the House in passing the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act, which partially repealed the Dodd-Frank Act. It was signed into law by President Trump a few days later.

After Republicans lost control of the House in the 2018 midterm elections, Ryan suggested that there were irregularities about the election results in California. Ryan said that California's election system was "bizarre", "defies logic" and that "there are a lot of races there we should have won." After Ryan's remarks were reported on, Ryan's spokesperson said "The Speaker did not and does not dispute the results".

Assessment of Speaker tenure 

Following Ryan's retirement announcement, an article in The Washington Post stated that Ryan was "leav[ing] behind a legacy of dramatically expanded government spending and immense deficits, a GOP president unchecked, a broken immigration system, and a party that's fast abandoning the free-trade principles that he himself championed." According to the Associated Press, Ryan "achieved one of his career goals: rewriting the tax code"; however, "on his other defining aim — balancing the budget and cutting back benefit programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — Ryan has utterly failed".

Constituent services
In fiscal year 2008, Ryan garnered $5.4 million in congressional earmarks, including $3.28 million for bus service in Wisconsin, $1.38 million for the Ice Age Trail, and $735,000 for the Janesville transit system. In 2009, he successfully advocated with the Department of Energy for stimulus funds for energy initiatives in his district.

Other home district projects he has supported include a runway extension at the Rock County Airport, an environmental study of the Kenosha Harbor, firefighting equipment for Janesville, road projects in Wisconsin, and commuter rail and streetcar projects in Kenosha. In 2008, Ryan pledged to stop seeking earmarks. Prior to that he had sought earmarks less often than other representatives. Taxpayers for Common Sense records show no earmarks supported by Ryan for fiscal years 2009 and 2010. In 2012, Ryan supported a request for $3.8 million from the Department of Transportation for a new transit center in Janesville, which city officials received in July.

Ryan was an active member of a task force established by Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle that tried unsuccessfully to persuade General Motors to keep its assembly plant in Janesville open. He made personal contact with GM executives to try to convince them to save or retool the plant, offering GM hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer-funded incentives. Following the closure of factories in Janesville and Kenosha, constituents expressed dissatisfaction with Ryan's voting history. During the 2011 Congressional summer break, Ryan held town hall meetings by telephone with constituents. The only public meetings Ryan attended in his district required an admission fee of at least $15.

In August 2011, constituents in Kenosha and Racine protested when Ryan would not meet with them about economic and employment issues, after weeks of emailed requests from them. His Kenosha office locked its doors and filed a complaint with the police, who told the protesters that they were not allowed in Ryan's office.

Ryan maintained a mobile office to serve constituents in outlying areas.

2012 vice presidential campaign

Dan Balz of The Washington Post wrote that Ryan was promoted as a candidate for Vice President "by major elements of the conservative opinion makers, including The Wall Street Journal editorial page, the Weekly Standard and the editor of National Review".

On August 11, 2012, the Romney campaign announced Ryan as its choice for Vice President through its "Mitt's VP" mobile app. It was reported that Romney had offered the position to Ryan on August 1, 2012, the day after returning from a foreign policy trip to the United Kingdom, Poland, and Israel. On August 11, 2012, Ryan formally accepted Romney's invitation to join his campaign as his running mate, in front of the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk. Ryan is the first individual from Wisconsin as well as the first member of Generation X to run on a major party's national ticket.

Also in August 2012, the Associated Press published a story saying that while the Tea Party movement had wanted a nominee other than Romney, it had gotten "one of its ideological heroes" in the Vice Presidential slot. According to the article, Ryan supports the Tea Party's belief in "individual rights, distrust of big government and an allegorical embrace of the Founding Fathers".

According to a statistical-historical analysis conducted by Nate Silver, "Ryan is the most conservative Republican member of Congress to be picked for the vice-presidential slot since at least 1900" and "is also more conservative than any Democratic nominee [for vice president who previously served in the Congress] was liberal, meaning that he is the furthest from the center" of any vice presidential candidate chosen from Congress since the turn of the 20th century.

Political scientist Eric Schickler commented that while Ryan "may well be the most conservative vice presidential nominee in decades," the NOMINATE methodology "is not suited to making claims about the relative liberalism or conservatism of politicians" over a long time span. A USA Today/Gallup poll found that 39% thought Ryan was an "excellent" or "pretty good" vice presidential choice, compared to 42% who felt he was a "fair" or "poor" choice.

Ryan formally accepted his nomination at the 2012 Republican National Convention on August 29, 2012. In his acceptance speech, he promoted Mitt Romney as the presidential candidate, supported repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), said that he and Romney had a plan to generate 12 million new jobs over the ensuing four years, and promoted founding principles as a solution: "We will not duck the tough issues—we will lead. We will not spend four years blaming others—we will take responsibility. We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles."

The speech was well received by the convention audience and praised for being well-delivered. Some fact-checkers purported that there were important factual omissions and that he presented details out of context. Conservative media (including Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post, the Investor's Business Daily, and Fox News) disputed some of the fact-checkers' findings.   Of 33 of Ryan's statements which Politifact.com suspected of being false or misleading, it rated 10.5% as True, 18% as Mostly True, 21% as Half True, 36% as Mostly False, 9% as False, and 6% as Pants on Fire. On October 11, 2012, Ryan debated his Democratic counterpart, incumbent Vice President Joe Biden, in the only vice presidential debate of the 2012 election cycle.

Romney and Ryan lost the 2012 presidential election, but Ryan retained his seat in the House of Representatives.

Congressional Leadership Fund

The Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), a Super PAC, has been closely linked and aligned with Ryan. Ryan has directed major GOP donors towards the CLF.

Political positions

Ryan's political positions were generally conservative, with a focus on fiscal policy. Ryan "played a central role in nearly all" the policy debates of the period 2010–2012. In 2012, Ryan voted against the Simpson-Bowles commission proposal to reduce the deficit, because the proposal raised taxes and failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act. While he was a self-proclaimed deficit hawk, Ryan's tenure of Speaker of the House saw a major expansion in government spending and a ballooning of deficits despite unified Republican control of Congress and the White House, no recession and no new foreign conflict.

Ryan subscribed to supply-side economics and supported tax cuts including eliminating the capital gains tax, the corporate income tax, the estate tax, and the Alternative Minimum Tax. Ryan supports deregulation, including the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act of 1999, which repealed some financial regulation of banks from the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933. During the economic recovery from the Great Recession of the late 2000s, Ryan supported the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which authorized the Treasury to purchase toxic assets from banks and other financial institutions, and the auto industry bailout; Ryan opposed the Credit CARD Act of 2009, which expanded consumer protections regarding credit card plans, and the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which strengthened financial regulation. In 2018 as House Speaker, Ryan helped pass the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act that repealed large parts of Dodd-Frank.

In 2016, Ryan rolled out a set of anti-poverty proposals that "seek to expand work requirements for those receiving federal benefits, to give states and local jurisdictions a greater role in administering those benefits, to better measure the results of federal programs for the poor, and to crack down on waste, fraud and abuse." Ryan believes federal poverty reduction programs are ineffective and he supports cuts to welfare, child care, Pell Grants, food stamps, and other federal assistance programs. Ryan supports block granting Medicaid to the states and the privatization of social security and Medicare. Ryan supported the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit and opposes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as "Obamacare." Ryan supported the American Health Care Act of 2017 (AHCA), the 2017 House Republican plan to repeal and replace the ACA. In 2012, The New York Times said Ryan was "his party's most forceful spokesman for cutting entitlement spending."

Ryan's non-fiscal policy positions were subject to additional national attention with his 2012 candidacy for Vice President. Ryan is pro-life and opposes abortion rights. Ryan opposed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, which provides that the 180-day statute of limitations for filing an equal-pay lawsuit regarding pay discrimination resets with each new paycheck affected by that discriminatory action. In 2012, Ryan supported civil unions and opposed same-sex marriage.

Ryan supported school vouchers, and supported the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 and its repeal the Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015. Ryan is unsure, and believes climate scientists are unsure, of the impact of human activity on climate change. Ryan supported tax incentives for the petroleum industry and opposed them for renewable energy. Ryan supported gun rights and opposed stricter gun control. Ryan supported the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Ryan condemned Barack Obama's decision not to block a UN resolution criticizing Israeli settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories as "absolutely shameful". Ryan supported President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. He stated: "Jerusalem has been, and always will be, the eternal, undivided capital of the State of Israel."

Following the 2018 Russia–United States summit, in which Donald Trump stated that he believed Russian government did not interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Ryan confirmed his belief that Russian government interfered and advocated for more economic sanctions against Russia for the interference.

Ryan supported U.S. involvement in the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen and used his power to block a House vote on the war in Yemen.

History with Objectivism 
At a 2005 Washington, D.C. gathering celebrating the 100th anniversary of Ayn Rand's birth, Ryan credited Rand with having inspired him to get involved in politics. In a speech that same year at the Atlas Society, he said he grew up reading Rand, and that her books taught him about his value system and beliefs. Ryan required staffers and interns in his congressional office to read Rand and gave copies of her novel Atlas Shrugged as gifts to his staff for Christmas. In his Atlas Society speech, he also described Social Security as a "socialist-based system".

In 2009, Ryan said, "What's unique about what's happening today in government, in the world, in America, is that it's as if we're living in an Ayn Rand novel right now. I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault."

In April 2012, after receiving criticism from Georgetown University faculty members on his budget plan, Ryan rejected Rand's philosophy as atheistic, saying it "reduces human interactions down to mere contracts". He also called the reports of his adherence to Rand's views an "urban legend" and stated that he was deeply influenced by his Roman Catholic faith and by Thomas Aquinas.

Electoral history

Post-congressional life 
In March 2019, Ryan joined the board of directors of Fox Corporation, the owner of Fox News Channel and the Fox broadcast network. In August 2019, he joined the board of SHINE Medical Technologies. He has since joined the faculty of the University of Notre Dame as a professor of practice for the 2019–20 academic year as a guest lecturer in political science and economics. In April 2019, Ryan was nominated as the delegation leader to represent President Trump to visit Taipei. With Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, he attended the 40th anniversary ceremony of the Taiwan Relations Act. In October 2019, Ryan launched a non-profit called American Idea Foundation.

Personal life

In December 2000, Ryan married  Janna Christine Little, a tax attorney, a graduate of Wellesley College and George Washington University Law School, and a native of Madill, Oklahoma. The Ryans live in the Courthouse Hill Historic District of Janesville, Wisconsin. They have three children: Elizabeth "Liza" Anne, Charles Wilson, and Samuel Lowery. A Roman Catholic, Ryan is a member of St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Janesville.

Janna is a cousin of former Democratic Representative Dan Boren (D-OK). She is also a granddaughter of Reuel Little, who helped found the American Party to support the 1968 presidential campaign of George Wallace.

Due to a family history of fatal heart attacks before age 60, Ryan pursues an intense cross-training fitness program called P90X. Ryan has always been a fitness enthusiast and was a personal trainer when he came out of college. About P90X, he said, "It works because it's called muscle confusion. It hits your body in many different ways. Pull-ups, push-ups, sit-ups, lots of cardio, karate, jump training. It has results, it works. It's a good workout."

In a 2010 Politico interview, he said that he weighed 163 pounds and maintained his body fat percentage between 6 and 8%. Tony Horton, creator of P90X, who has personally trained Ryan many times, reiterated the claim saying, "He is very, very, very lean. I know what 6 to 8 percent body fat looks like, and there's no fat anywhere on the man. I'm around 9 percent and he's much leaner than I am. He’s easily 6 to 8 percent body fat. You just have to eat right and exercise every day, and that’s what he does."

In a radio interview, Ryan claimed he had once run a marathon in under three hours; he later stated that he forgot his actual time and was just trying to state what he thought was a normal time. His one official marathon time is recorded as slightly over four hours.

Awards and honors
 2004, 2010 – Guardian of Small Business Award, National Federation of Independent Business
 2008 – Defending the American Dream Award, Americans for Prosperity, Wisconsin chapter
 2009 – Manufacturing Legislative Excellence Award, National Association of Manufacturers
 2009 – Honorary Degree, Miami University
 2010 – Legislator of the Year Award, International Franchise Association
 2011 – Statesmanship Award, Claremont Institute
 2011 – Fiscy Award for responsible financial stewardship and fiscal discipline in government.
 2011 – Leadership Award, Jack Kemp Foundation
 2011 – Freedom and Prosperity Award, Mason Contractors Association of America
 2012 – Chair, Honorary Board of the Archery Trade Association
 2014 – Alexander Hamilton Award, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
 2018 –  Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service

References

Further reading
Works about Ryan
 
 
 
 
 

Works by Ryan

External links

 
 
 

 Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Historical Society

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The 2021 Virginia House of Delegates election for the 162nd Virginia General Assembly were held on November 2, 2021 to coincide with biennial elections in the U.S. state of Virginia. All 100 Delegates are elected to two-year terms in single-member constituencies. Primary elections took place on June 8. This election coincided with the Virginia gubernatorial, lieutenant gubernatorial, and Attorney General elections, all of which were won by Republicans. The upper house of the Virginia General Assembly, the Senate of Virginia, will hold its next election on November 7, 2023.

The results certified on November 15 show Republicans flipping seven seats and regaining a majority in the House of Delegates. All races have been called by the Associated Press.  A recount in the 85th district, which concluded on December 3, showed incumbent Democrat Alex Askew gaining 12 votes, with Republican Karen Greenhalgh still winning by 115 votes. A recount in the 91st district, which concluded on December 8, showed incumbent Democrat Martha Mugler losing by 94 votes to Republican A.C. Cordoza.

Background
Following the 2019 Virginia House of Delegates election, Democrats netted a gain of six seats. As a result, control of the Virginia House of Delegates flipped to Democratic control for the first time since 1999. Upon obtaining control of the chamber, House Democrats elected Eileen Filler-Corn as Speaker making her the first female Speaker in the history of the Virginia House of Delegates.

Retirements
Five incumbents did not seek re-election either to retire or to seek other positions.

Democrats
One Democrat did not seek re-election.
District 51: Hala Ayala retired to run for lieutenant governor.

Republicans
Four Republicans did not seek re-election.
District 7: Nick Rush retired.
District 66: Kirk Cox retired to run for governor.
District 82: Jason Miyares retired to run for attorney general.
District 88: Mark Cole retired.

Incumbents defeated

In primary elections

Democrats 

Four Democrats lost renomination.

 District 45: Mark Levine lost renomination to Elizabeth Bennett-Parker, who went on to win the general election.
 District 50: Lee J. Carter lost renomination to Michelle Maldonado, who went on to win the general election.
 District 79: Steve Heretick lost renomination to Nadarius Clark, who went on to win the general election.
 District 86: Ibraheem Samirah lost renomination to Irene Shin, who went on to win the general election.

Republicans 

One Republican lost renomination.

 District 9: Charles Poindexter lost renomination to Wren Williams, who went on to win the general election.

In general elections

Democrats 

Seven Democrats lost re-election to Republicans.

 District 12: Chris Hurst (first elected in 2017) lost to Jason Ballard.
 District 28: Joshua G. Cole (first elected in 2019) lost to Tara Durant.
 District 63: Lashrecse Aird (first elected in 2015) lost to Kim Taylor.
 District 75: Roslyn Tyler (first elected in 2005) lost to Otto Wachsmann.
 District 83: Nancy Guy (first elected in 2019) lost to Tim Anderson.
 District 85: Alex Askew (first elected in 2019) lost to Karen Greenhalgh.
 District 91: Martha Mugler (first elected in 2019) lost to A.C. Cordoza.

Republicans 

No Republicans lost re-election.

Special elections
There were two special elections in 2021 to the 161st Virginia General Assembly, both held on January 5.

District 90 
Incumbent Democrat Joseph C. Lindsey, first elected in a 2014 special election, retired on November 10, 2020.

District 2 
Incumbent Democrat Jennifer Carroll Foy, first elected in 2017, retired on December 12, 2020 to run for governor.

Predictions

Results

Overview 
The Republican Party showed a strong performance in 2021, gaining seven seats over the Democrats. Due to close races in Districts 85 and 91, recounts were requested by Democrats Alex Askew and Martha Mugler, who fell in close second places to their Republican challengers. On December 3, 2021, the recount in District 85 reaffirmed the victory of Republican Karen Greenhalgh, giving the Republican Party a majority in the House of Delegates and ending the Democratic Party's control over the chamber. District 91's recount, which took place on December 7, resulted in victory for Republican candidate A.C. Cordoza, making the final seat count 52 Republicans to 48 Democrats.

Both major parties fielded a record high number of candidates, with Republicans contesting 98 out of the 100 districts, and Democrats contesting 93.

Close races 
Seats where the margin of victory was under 10%:

List of districts

Uncontested primaries are not reported by the Virginia Department of Elections.

District 1
Incumbent Republican Terry Kilgore was first elected in 1993.

District 2
Incumbent Democrat Candi King was first elected in a 2021 special election.

District 3
Incumbent Republican Will Morefield was first elected in 2009.

District 4
Incumbent Republican Will Wampler was first elected in 2019.

District 5
Incumbent Republican Israel O'Quinn was first elected in 2011.

District 6
Incumbent Republican Jeff Campbell was first elected in 2013.

District 7
Incumbent Republican Nick Rush was first elected in 2011. He is retiring.

District 8
Incumbent Republican Joseph McNamara was first elected in a 2018 special election. Democratic challenger Dustin Wimbish withdrew from the race on October 13, but his candidacy remained on the ballot.

District 9
Incumbent Republican Charles Poindexter was first elected in 2007. He lost renomination.

District 10
Incumbent Democrat Wendy Gooditis was first elected in 2017.

District 11
Incumbent Democrat Sam Rasoul was first elected in 2013.

District 12
Incumbent Democrat Chris Hurst was first elected in 2017.

District 13
Incumbent Democrat Danica Roem was first elected in 2017.

District 14
Incumbent Republican Danny Marshall was first elected in 2001.

District 15
Incumbent Republican and House Minority Leader Todd Gilbert was first elected in 2005.

District 16
Incumbent Republican Les Adams was first elected in 2013.

District 17
Incumbent Republican Chris Head was first elected in 2011.

District 18
Incumbent Republican Michael Webert was first elected in 2011.

District 19
Incumbent Republican Terry Austin was first elected in 2013.

District 20
Incumbent Republican John Avoli was first elected in 2019.

District 21
Incumbent Democrat Kelly Convirs-Fowler was first elected in 2017.

District 22
Incumbent Republican Kathy Byron was first elected in 1997.

District 23
Incumbent Republican Wendell Walker was first elected in 2019.

District 24
Incumbent Republican Ronnie R. Campbell was first elected in a 2018 special election.

District 25
Incumbent Republican Chris Runion was first elected in 2019.

District 26
Incumbent Republican Tony Wilt was first elected in a 2010 special election.

District 27
Incumbent Republican Roxann Robinson was first elected in a 2010 special election.

District 28
Incumbent Democrat Joshua G. Cole was first elected in 2019.

District 29
Incumbent Republican Bill Wiley was first elected in a 2020 special election.

District 30
Incumbent Republican Nick Freitas was first elected in 2015.

District 31
Incumbent Democrat Elizabeth Guzmán was first elected in 2017.

District 32
Incumbent Democrat David A. Reid was first elected in 2017.

District 33
Incumbent  Republican Dave LaRock was first elected in 2013.

District 34
Incumbent Democrat Kathleen Murphy was first elected in a 2015 special election.

District 35
Incumbent Democrat Mark Keam was first elected in 2009.

District 36
Incumbent Democrat Kenneth R. Plum was first elected in 1981.

District 37
Incumbent Democrat David Bulova was first elected in 2005.

District 38
Incumbent Democrat Kaye Kory was first elected in 2009.

District 39
Incumbent Democrat Vivian Watts was first elected in 1995.

District 40
Incumbent Democrat Dan Helmer was first elected in 2019.

District 41
Incumbent Democrat and Speaker of the House Eileen Filler-Corn was first elected in a 2010 special election.

District 42
Incumbent Democrat Kathy Tran was first elected in 2017.

District 43
Incumbent Democrat Mark Sickles was first elected in 2003.

District 44
Incumbent Democrat Paul Krizek was first elected in 2015.

District 45
Incumbent Democrat Mark Levine was first elected in 2015. He lost renomination.

District 46
Incumbent Democrat and House Majority Leader Charniele Herring was first elected in 2009.

District 47
Incumbent Democrat Patrick Hope  was first elected in 2009.

District 48
Incumbent Democrat Rip Sullivan  was first elected in a 2014 special election.

District 49
Incumbent Democrat and House Majority Whip Alfonso H. Lopez was first elected in 2011.

District 50
Incumbent Democrat Lee J. Carter was first elected in 2017. He lost renomination.

District 51
Incumbent Democrat Hala Ayala was first elected in 2017. She is retiring to run for lieutenant governor.

District 52
Incumbent Democrat Luke Torian was first elected in 2009.

District 53
Incumbent Democrat Marcus Simon was first elected in 2013.

District 54
Incumbent Republican Bobby Orrock was first elected in 1989.

District 55
Incumbent Republican Buddy Fowler was first elected in 2013.

District 56
Incumbent Republican John McGuire was first elected in 2017.

District 57
Incumbent Democrat Sally L. Hudson was first elected in 2019.

District 58
Incumbent Republican Rob Bell was first elected in 2001.

District 59
Incumbent Republican Matt Fariss was first elected in 2011.

District 60
Incumbent Republican James E. Edmunds was first elected in 2019.

District 61
Incumbent Republican Thomas C. Wright was first elected in a 2000 special election.

District 62
Incumbent Republican Carrie Coyner was first elected in 2019.

District 63
Incumbent Democrat Lashrecse Aird was first elected in 2015.

District 64
Incumbent Republican Emily Brewer was first elected in 2017.

District 65
Incumbent Republican Lee Ware was first elected in a 1998 special election.

District 66
Incumbent Republican Kirk Cox was first elected in 1989. He is retiring to run for governor.

District 67
Incumbent Democrat Karrie Delaney was first elected in 2017.

District 68
Incumbent Democrat Dawn Adams was first elected in 2017.

District 69
Incumbent Democrat Betsy B. Carr was first elected in 2009.

District 70
Incumbent Democrat Delores McQuinn was first elected in 2009.

District 71
Incumbent Democrat Jeff Bourne was first elected in 2017.

District 72
Incumbent Democrat Schuyler VanValkenburg was first elected in 2017.

District 73
Incumbent Democrat Rodney Willett was first elected in 2019.

District 74
Incumbent Democrat Lamont Bagby was first elected in 2015.

District 75
Incumbent Democrat Roslyn Tyler was first elected in 2005.

District 76
Incumbent Democrat Clinton Jenkins was first elected in 2019.

District 77
Incumbent Democrat Cliff Hayes Jr. was first elected in a 2016 special election.

District 78
Incumbent Republican Jay Leftwich was first elected in 2013.

District 79
Incumbent Democrat Steve Heretick was first elected in 2015. He lost renomination.

District 80
Incumbent Democrat Don Scott was first elected in 2019.

District 81
Incumbent Republican Barry Knight was first elected in 2009.

District 82
Incumbent Republican Jason Miyares was first elected in 2015. He is retiring to run for attorney general.

District 83
Incumbent Democrat Nancy Guy was first elected in 2019.

District 84
Incumbent Republican Glenn Davis was first elected in 2013.

District 85
Incumbent Democrat Alex Askew was first elected in 2019.

District 86
Incumbent Democrat Ibraheem Samirah was first elected in 2019. He lost renomination to Irene Shin, who was elected with 65.4% of the vote.

District 87
Incumbent Democrat Suhas Subramanyam was first elected in 2019.

District 88
Incumbent Republican Mark Cole was first elected in 2001. He is retiring.

District 89
Incumbent Democrat Jay Jones was first elected in 2017.

District 90
Incumbent Democrat Angelia Williams Graves was first elected in a 2021 special election.

District 91
Incumbent Democrat Martha Mugler was first elected in 2019.

District 92
Incumbent Democrat Jeion Ward was first elected in 2019.

District 93
Incumbent Democrat Michael P. Mullin was first elected in a 2016 special election.

District 94
Incumbent Democrat Shelly Simonds was first elected in 2019.

District 95
Incumbent Democrat Marcia Price was first elected in 2015.

District 96
Incumbent Republican Amanda Batten was first elected in 2019.

District 97
Incumbent Republican Scott Wyatt was first elected in 2019.

District 98
Incumbent Republican Keith Hodges was first elected in 2011.

District 99
Incumbent Republican Margaret Ransone was first elected in 2011.

District 100
Incumbent Republican Robert Bloxom Jr. was first elected in 2014.

See also 

 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election
 2021 Virginia lieutenant gubernatorial election
 2021 Virginia Attorney General election

References 

Virginia House of Delegates
2021 Virginia elections
November 2021 events in the United States
Virginia House of Delegates elections The 2022 West Virginia House of Delegates election will be held on November 8, 2022, electing all 100 members of the chamber. This will coincide with the election of 17 of West Virginia's 34 state senators, and the election of West Virginia's two representatives. Primary elections are scheduled to be held on May 10, 2022. Due to redistricting, this will be the first House of Delegates election in which all members are elected from single member districts, with West Virginia following a trend of states phasing out multi-member districts in recent decades.

Background 
In the 2020 House of Delegates election, the Republican Party gained almost twenty seats from the Democrats, achieving supermajority status. This has followed West Virginia's sharp turn towards the Republican Party in the past twenty years, and the Republicans' growing prominence in state politics. Since 2020, two Democrats have changed parties, making nearly 80 percent of the chamber Republican.

Retiring incumbents

Republicans 
Ten Republicans are retiring or have otherwise not filed for re-election.

 John R. Kelly (District 10), to run for West Virginia Senate.
 John Mandt (District 16), to run for Cabell County Commission.
 Joe Jeffries (District 22) has not filed for re-election.
 Zack Maynard (District 22) is retiring.
 Tony Paynter (District 25), to run for Wyoming County Circuit Clerk.
 Mick Bates (District 26), to run for West Virginia Senate.
 Kayla Kessinger (District 32) is retiring.
 Ben Queen (District 48), to run for West Virginia Senate.
 Terri Sypolt (District 52) has not filed for re-election.
 Jason Barrett (District 61), to run for West Virginia Senate.

Democrats 
Five Democrats are retiring or have otherwise not filed for re-election.
 Dave Pethtel (District 5) is retiring.
Nathan Brown (District 20), to run for Mingo County Commission.
Brent Boggs (District 34) has not filed for re-election.
Barbara Fleischauer (District 51), to run for West Virginia Senate.
John Doyle (District 67), to run for Jefferson County Commission.

Overview

Appointments 
During West Virginia's 85th Legislature (2021-2023), several delegates resigned from their seats in the House of Delegates. According to §3-10-5 of West Virginia Code, vacancies in the House of Delegates are filled through appointment by the Governor of one of three candidates chosen by the executive committee of the outgoing member's party. Below is a list of appointments made during the 85th Legislature.

List of districts

District 1 
Incumbent Pat McGeehan was first elected in 2014.

General Election

District 2 
Incumbent Mark Zatezalo was first elected in 2014, left the House of Delegates in 2018, and was elected again in 2020.

General Election

District 3 
Incumbent Phillip Diserio was first elected in 2012, left the House of Delegates in 2014, and was elected again in 2016.

General Election

District 4 
Incumbent Erikka Storch was first elected in 2010.

General Election

District 5 
Incumbent Shawn Fluharty was first elected in 2014.

General Election

District 6 
Incumbent Charlie Reynolds was first elected in 2020.

General Election

District 7 
Incumbent Lisa Zukoff was first elected in 2018.

General Election

District 8 
Incumbent David Kelly was first elected in 2018.

General Election

District 9 
Incumbent Trenton Barnhart was appointed in 2019.

District 10 
Incumbent William Anderson was first elected in 1992.

General Election

District 11 
Incumbent Roger Conley was first elected in 2020.

General Election

District 12 
Incumbent Vernon Criss was first elected in 2016.

General Election

District 13

General Election

District 14 
Incumbent Shannon Kimes was first elected in 2020.

General Election

District 15 
Incumbent Riley Keaton was first elected in 2020.

General Election

District 16 
Incumbent Steve Westfall was first elected in 2012.

General Election

District 17 
Incumbent Jonathan Pinson was first elected in 2020.

General Election

District 18 
Incumbent Johnnie Wamsley was first elected in 2020.

General Election

District 19 
Incumbent Kathie Hess Crouse was appointed in 2021.

General Election

District 20 
Incumbent Geoff Foster was first elected in 2014.

General Election

District 21

General Election

District 22 
Incumbent Daniel Linville was first elected in 2020.

General Election

District 23 
Incumbent Evan Worrell was first elected in 2018.

District 24

General Election

District 25 
Incumbent Sean Hornbuckle was first elected in 2014.

District 26 
Incumbent Matthew Rohrbach was first elected in 2014.

General Election

District 27 
Incumbent Chad Lovejoy was elected in 2016. Incumbent Ric Griffith was elected in 2020.

General Election

District 28 
Incumbent Josh Booth was appointed in 2021.

General Election

District 29

General Election

District 30

General Election

District 31 
Incumbent Margitta Mazzocchi was first elected in 2020.

General Election

District 32 
Incumbent Josh Holstein was first elected in 2020.

District 33 
Incumbent Jordan Bridges was first elected in 2020.

District 34 
Incumbent Mark Dean was first elected in 2016.

General Election

District 35

District 36 
Incumbent Ed Evans was first elected in 2016.

General Election

District 37 
Incumbent Marty Gearheart was first elected in 2020.

District 38 
Incumbent Joe Ellington was first elected in 2010.

District 39 
Incumbent Doug Smith was first elected in 2020.

District 40 
Incumbent Roy Cooper was first elected in 2012.

District 41 
Incumbent Jordan Maynor was appointed in 2021.

General Election

District 42 
Incumbent Brandon Steele was first elected in 2018.

District 43 
Incumbent Christopher Toney was first elected in 2018.

General Election

District 44

General Election

District 45

General Election

District 46 
Incumbent Michael Honaker was appointed in 2021.

General Election

District 47 
Incumbent Todd Longanacre was first elected in 2020.

District 48 
Incumbent Caleb Hanna was first elected in 2018.

District 49 
Incumbent Heather Tully was first elected in 2020.

District 50 
Incumbent Austin Haynes was first elected in 2020.

District 51 
Incumbent Tom Fast was first elected in 2020.

General Election

District 52 
Incumbent Larry Rowe was first elected in 1996, before leaving the chamber and returning in 2014.

District 53 
Incumbents Jim Barach and Chris Pritt were first elected in 2020.

District 54 
Incumbent Mike Pushkin was first elected in 2014.

General Election

District 55 
Incumbent Moore Capito was first elected in 2016.

District 56 
Incumbents Larry Pack and Kayla Young were first elected in 2020.

General Election

District 57 
Incumbent Doug Skaff was first elected in 2018.

District 58

General Election

District 59 
Incumbent Dianna Graves was appointed in 2017.

General Election

District 60 
Incumbent Dana Ferrell was first elected in 2020.

District 61 
Incumbent Dean Jeffries was first elected in 2018.

District 62 
Incumbent Roger Hanshaw was first elected in 2014.

District 63

General Election

District 64 
Incumbent Adam Burkhammer was first elected in 2020.

District 65 
Incumbent Carl Martin was first elected in 2018.

District 66 
Incumbent Ty Nestor was first elected in 2020.

District 67 
Incumbent Cody Thompson was first elected in 2018.

District 68 
Incumbent Chris Phillips was first elected in 2018.

District 69 
Incumbent Danny Hamrick was first elected in 2012.

General Election

District 70

General Election

District 71 
Incumbent Laura Kimble was first elected in 2020.

General Election

District 72 
Incumbent Clay Riley was first elected in 2020.

District 73 
Incumbent Amy Summers was first elected in 2014.

District 74 
Incumbent Guy Ward was first elected in 2020.

General Election

District 75 
Incumbent Phil Mallow was first elected in 2020.

District 76 
Incumbent Joey Garcia was first elected in 2020.

General Election

District 77 
Incumbent Joe Statler was first elected in 2020.

District 78

General Election

District 79 
Incumbent Evan Hansen was first elected in 2018.

General Election

District 80 
Incumbent John Williams was first elected in 2016.

District 81 
Incumbent Danielle Walker was first elected in 2018.

District 82

General Election

District 83

District 84 
Incumbent D. Rolland Jennings was appointed in 2017.

General Election

District 85 
Incumbent John Paul Hott was first elected in 2018.

District 86 
Incumbent Bryan Ward was first elected in 2020.

General Election

District 87 
Incumbent Gary Howell was first elected in 2010.

District 88

General Election

District 89 
Incumbent Ruth Rowan was first elected in 2004.

General Election

District 90 
Incumbents George Miller and Ken Reed were first elected in 2020.

General Election

District 91 
Incumbent Don Forsht was first elected in 2020.

District 92

District 93

District 94

General Election

District 95 
Incumbent Chuck Horst was first elected in 2020.

District 96 
Incumbent Eric Householder was first elected in 2010.

District 97 
Incumbent John Hardy was first elected in 2018.

General Election

District 98 
Incumbent Paul Espinosa was first elected in 2012.

District 99 
Incumbent Wayne Clark was first elected in 2020.

District 100

General Election

References 

2022 West Virginia elections
West Virginia House
West Virginia House of Delegates elections