Citizenship Test Answers for West Virginia
Four of the 128 civics questions depend on where you live. Here is how to answer them if you live in West Virginia.
62. What is the capital of your state?
Answer for West Virginia
Charleston
This is the one state-specific answer that does not change. The three below change with elections. Every name on this page is checked each night against the congressional record and, for governors, two independent public records, and a name is left out rather than printed when the sources disagree.
23. Who is one of your state's U.S. senators now?
Answer for West Virginia now
- James C. Justice
- Shelley Moore Capito
You only need to give one of these names.
West Virginia has two U.S. senators, like every state. You only need to name one of them. Senators are elected to six-year terms, so this answer changes; give the name of a senator serving on the day of your interview.
Look up West Virginia's senators at senate.gov
29. Name your U.S. representative.
Your representative depends on your congressional district, not just your state, so it is different for two people living in the same city. Look it up by ZIP code.
All 2 of West Virginia's representatives, by district
| District | Representative |
|---|---|
| 1 | Carol D. Miller |
| 2 | Riley M. Moore |
If you do not know your district, the lookup below finds it from your ZIP code.
Find your representative at house.gov
Residents of territories with nonvoting Delegates or Resident Commissioners may provide the name of that Delegate or Commissioner. Also acceptable is any statement that the territory has no (voting) representatives in Congress.
61. Who is the governor of your state now?
Answer for West Virginia now
Patrick Morrisey
Governors are elected and change, so answer with whoever is serving on the day of your
interview. Your state government's official .gov website is the reliable
place to check.
Background on West Virginia
Charleston is West Virginia's capital and its largest city, where the Elk and Kanawha rivers meet. West Virginia became the 35th state in 1863, and its origin is unique: the western counties of Virginia refused to leave the Union when Virginia seceded, so they broke away and were admitted as a separate state in the middle of the Civil War. No other state was formed that way. It has 2 congressional districts and 4 electoral votes, having lost a seat after the 2020 census as the population fell. That history ties this page to the Civil War questions, since the state exists because of the argument over whether a state could leave the Union at all.
This background section is written by US Citizenship Test Practice. It is not part of the USCIS question list, and it names no senator, representative or governor itself: those names change with elections, so they appear only in the answers above, which are checked every night.
The other 124 questions
Everything else on the civics test is the same no matter where you live.