West Virginia voters will decide on November 3, 2026, whether to approve the legislatively referred Citizenship Voting Requirement Amendment, which would explicitly limit voting in state and local elections to U.S. citizens who are also state residents. The measure, designated Amendment 1, advanced through the 2026 legislative session with unanimous or near-unanimous support in both chambers before placement on the ballot by the secretary of state. West Virginia election law already bars noncitizens from registering, and the amendment would embed that restriction in the state constitution. The state’s Republican majority and limited organized opposition have contributed to strong trader expectations of passage, consistent with patterns for similar citizen-voting measures in other states. No major recent developments have altered the outlook.