NATIONAL ELECTION RETURNS : State-by-State Election Reports of Key Races and Issues : West Virginia
Michael S. Dukakis won West Virginia’s six electoral votes.
U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a five-term veteran who intends to step down as Senate majority leader, defeated a bid for his seat by freshman GOP state Sen. Jay Wolfe. The Republican was unable to match Byrd’s well-financed campaign and slick television spots and prompted an outcry with one of his own anti-abortion ads that showed a bloody fetus.
In the governor’s race, multimillionaire businessman Gaston Caperton defeated GOP warhorse Gov. Arch A. Moore, 65, in much the fashion that Jay Rockefeller topped Moore in 1976--with an expensive media blitz.
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