Charleston, West Virginia
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) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates representing District 36 since January 12, 2013. Wells served consecutively from January 2005 until January 2013 in a District 30 seat.
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*2012 Redistricted to District 36 with fellow District 30 incumbent Representatives
Nancy Guthrie
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Mark Hunt
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, Wells placed first in the seven-way May 8, 2012, Democratic Primary with 2,878 votes (20.7%), and placed second in the six-way three-position November 6, 2012, General election with 9,212 votes (19.4%) behind Representative Hunt (D) and ahead of Representative Guthrie (D) and Republican nominees Robin Holstein, Stevie Thaxton, and Steve Sweeney.
*2002 When District 30 Representative
Joe F. Smith
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retired and left a district seat open, Wells ran in the nineteen-way 2002 Democratic Primary but failed to place; the frontrunners won the fourteen-way seven position November 5, 2002, General election including incumbents
Jon Amores
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Bobbie Hatfield
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(D), and nominees Ann Calvert (R) (who had run for the seat in 2000), Dan Foster (D),
Corey Palumbo
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(D),
Sharon Spencer
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(D), unseating Representative
Ray Keener
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(D).
*2004 When Representative Foster ran for
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and left a district seat open, Wells placed in the fourteen-way 2004 Democratic Primary and was elected in the fourteen-way seven-position November 2, 2004, General election which re-elected incumbent Representatives Amores (D), Brown (D), and Hatfield (D), Palumbo (D), and Spencer (D), fellow Democratic nominee Mark Hunt, and unseated Representative Calvert (R).
*2006 When Representative Hunt took a hiatus from the Legislature and left a seat open, Wells placed in the eleven-way 2006 Democratic Primary and was re-elected in the fourteen-way seven-position November 7, 2006, General election alongside incumbent Democratic Representatives Amores (D), Hatfield (D), Spencer (D), Palumbo (D), Brown (D), and Democratic nominee Nancy Guthrie.
*2008 When Representative Palumbo ran for
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and Representative Amores retired, leaving two district seats open, Wells placed first in the seventeen-way May 13, 2008, Democratic Primary with 13,530 votes (11.0%), and placed second in the fifteen-way seven-position November 4, 2008, General election with 24,019 votes (8.9%) along with Democratic nominee
Doug Skaff
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and incumbent Representatives Brown (D), Hatfield (D), Hunt (D), Spencer (D), and Guthrie (D), all seven Republican nominees and Mountain Party candidate John Welbourn.
*2010 Wells placed fourth in the thirteen-way May 11, 2010, Democratic Primary with 5,823 votes (11.2%), and placed third in the fourteen-way seven-position November 2, 2010, General election with 17,197 votes (7.8%) behind incumbent Representative Skaff (D), Republican nominee Eric Nelson, and ahead of incumbents Hatfield (D), Brown (D), Hunt (D), and Guthrie(D), unseated Representative Spencer (D) and the remaining Republican nominees.
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