DemocratNot in office · last served 2024Last on a ballot: Nov 2020
Robert H. Plymale
Last held office: West Virginia State Senate, District 5 (1992–2024). Ran in 8 elections between 1992 and 2020, winning 8.
- Last margin
- +7.3
- Won 2020
- Elections
- 8
- 1992–2020
Source: Wikidata, congress-legislators and Open States; 99chambers legislative records
Career
Offices held, and every time Plymale was on a ballot. Filled marks are general elections won; hollow marks are primaries; an orange outline is a loss.
Source: 99chambers results archive (MEDSL, Klarner, state election offices)
Every race Plymale has run
Baseline: how the seat voted for president in the same or nearest year. Running ahead of it means Plymale won voters the party’s presidential nominee did not; primaries have no baseline.
| Year | Office | Stage | Result | Opponents | Share | Margin | Baseline | Against baseline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | West Virginia State Senate, District 5 | General | Won | Charles R. Shaffer (R) | 53.6% | D+7.3 | R+28.1 | |
| 2016 | West Virginia State Senate, District 5 | General | Won | Thomas R. Smith (R) | 60.2% | D+20.5 | R+28.1 | |
| 2012 | West Virginia State Senate, District 5 | General | Won | Unopposed | 100% | — | — | |
| 2008 | West Virginia State Senate, District 5 | General | Won | Stephen L. Hall (R) | 67% | D+33.9 | — | |
| 2004 | West Virginia State Senate, District 5 | General | Won | Stephen L. Hall (R) | 61.8% | D+23.6 | — | |
| 2000 | West Virginia State Senate, District 5 | General | Won | Unopposed | 100% | — | — | |
| 1996 | West Virginia State Senate, District 5 | General | Won | Unopposed | 100% | — | — | |
| 1992 | West Virginia State Senate, District 5 | General | Won | Unopposed | 100% | — | — |
Source: 99chambers results archive
Seats Plymale has held
- West Virginia State Senate, District 5 · 1992–2024
Source: 99chambers results archive
Who Plymale has run against
- Charles R. Shaffer (R) · 2020 election, won
- Thomas R. Smith (R) · 2016 election, won
- Stephen L. Hall (R) · 2008 election, won
Source: 99chambers results archive