Fluharty, Storch Retain W.Va. House Seats
Delegates Erikka Storch and Shawn Fluharty will continue to drive back and forth from Charleston for the next two years.
Storch, R-Ohio, and Fluharty, D-Ohio, were the top unofficial vote-getters Tuesday in the race for two seats representing the West Virginia House of Delegates District 3.
Storch received 9,576 votes and Fluharty got 8,233.
Republican Dalton Haas garnered 5,736, and Democrat Ben Schneider, 2,989.
The 3rd District encompasses all but the northern tip of Ohio County.
Fluharty, an attorney, has served as a delegate since first being elected in 2014.
He thanked all the voters who went to the polls Tuesday.
“It was exciting all day to watch the unity of people coming out to vote,” Fluharty said.
“While politics can be dividing and divisive, it gives me hope that moving forward we can come together.”
He said he and Storch have built “a great bi-partisanship relationship.”
“I think the voters understand that, and that’s why they re-elected us today.”
This will be the fifth term for Storch, who has served in the House of Delegates since 2010. She works as president of the Wheeling Area Chamber of Commerce.
She could not be reached for comment late Tuesday night.