West Virginia gubernatorial election, 1992

November 7, 1992



Nominee	Gaston Caperton	Cleve Benedict	Charlotte Pritt (write-in)
Party	Democratic	Republican	Independent
Popular vote	368,302	240,390	48,873
Percentage	56.0%	36.6%	7.4%

Governor before election

Gaston Caperton
Democratic

Elected Governor

Gaston Caperton
Democratic

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The 1992 West Virginia gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 1992. Incumbent Democratic Governor Gaston Caperton won re-election by defeating former Republican U.S. Representative Cleve Benedict and Democratic State Senator Charlotte Pritt, who ran as an independent write-in candidate after losing to Caperton in the Democratic primary election.

Results

West Virginia gubernatorial election, 1992^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Gaston Caperton (inc.)	368,302	56.01%
	Republican	Cleve Benedict	240,390	36.56%
	Independent	Charlotte Pritt (write-in)	48,873	7.43%
Margin of victory			127,912	19.45%
Total votes			657,565	100%
	Democratic hold		Swing

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West Virginia gubernatorial election, 1992

Results

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