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| seats2_title = United States House of Representatives | seats2 = | seats3_title = Executive offices | seats3 = | seats4_title = West Virginia Senate | seats4 = | seats5_title = West Virginia House of Delegates | seats5 = | website = }} The West Virginia Democratic Party is the state level chapter of the United States Democratic Party in the state of West Virginia. ==History== The state of West Virginia granted itself statehood after its people, through a state constitutional convention, became a free state and broke away from the slave holding state of Virginia in 1861 during the first year of the Civil War. Article IV of the U.S. Constitution requires consent of the newly formed state, the original state, and Congress. Since the Virginian government was ruled illegitimate as it was a member of the Confederate States of America, no approval was required and after Congressional consent, self-statehood was gained and political party formation prospered.〔west Virginia Statehood http://www.wvculture.org/history/statehoo.html〕 The West Virginia Democratic Party was started as a coalition of Pro-Union Democrats, Pro-Confederate Democrats, and former members of the Whig Party. After 1872, its political dominance flourished when restrictions that disenfranchised former Confederates were struck from the state constitution.〔West Virginia para 1-2 http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1875〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「West Virginia Democratic Party」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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