ABSTRACT
For the first time since 1910, West Virginia has had a change in the number of congressmen to which it is entitled-a reduction from six to five. The event evoked little interest in most areas of the state, for the partisan situation dictated the district most likely to be eliminated, and politicogeographic and historical factors dictated most of the shifts in counties that were made by the West Virginia Legislature's Congressional Reapportionment Act of 1961.
