DemocratNot in office · last served 2002Last on a ballot: Nov 2000

Joe F. Smith

Last held office: West Virginia House of Delegates, District 30 (1998–2002). Ran in 5 elections between 1978 and 2000, winning 4.

Source: Wikidata, congress-legislators and Open States; 99chambers legislative records

Career

Offices held, and every time Smith was on a ballot. Filled marks are general elections won; hollow marks are primaries; an orange outline is a loss.

Margin: how far Smith finished ahead of (+) or behind (−) the runner-up.

Year	Office	Stage	Result	Opponents	Share	Margin
2000	West Virginia House of Delegates, District 30	General	Won	Jon Amores (D), Rebecca A. Mathews (D), Barbara Hatfield (D)	8%	R+2.7
1998	West Virginia House of Delegates, District 30	General	Won	Jon Amores (D), Larry L. Rowe (D), Shelley Moore Capito (R)	8.7%	R+2.7
1992	West Virginia House of Delegates, District 30	General	Won	Phyllis J. Rutledge (D), Bonnie Brown (D), Nancy Kessell (D)	8.3%	R+2.0
1978	West Virginia House of Delegates, District 17	General	Lost	Martha Wehrle (D), Leo Kopelman (R), John Wells (R)	3.7%	R+1.0
1978	West Virginia House of Delegates, District 17	Primary	Won	Leo Kopelman (R), Eric Nelson (R), John W. Biddle (R)	4.3%	−2.6