Editing Huntington, West Virginia (section)

==Government and politics==
[[File:Huntington City Hall, Huntington, West Virginia LCCN2015631822.tif|thumb|[[Huntington City Hall]], built in 1915<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lccn.loc.gov/2015631822 |title=Huntington City Hall, Huntington, West Virginia |work=Online Catalog |publisher=U.S. Library of Congress |access-date=March 8, 2017 |archive-date=August 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230802171225/https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/searchBrowse?editSearchId=E |url-status=live}}</ref>]]
Since 1985 Huntington has operated under a [[strong mayor]]/[[city council]] form of government.<ref>{{cite web|agency=[[The Associated Press]]|title=Huntington Charter|date=March 27, 2006|url=http://wowktv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=9721|access-date=June 15, 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927034738/http://wowktv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=9721|archive-date=September 27, 2007}}</ref> The mayor is elected to four-year terms in partisan elections contested at the same time as [[United States presidential election]]s. The current mayor is former [[Marshall University]] [[Board of directors|Board of Governors]] member Patrick Farrell, a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] who is currently serving his first term. 

The city also serves as the [[county seat]] of Cabell County.<ref name="GR6" /> The Cabell County Courthouse is on a downtown parcel that covers an entire city block. Within the building are the offices for all of the county's elected officials and their employees, including the [[sheriff]], [[county commission]]ers, [[county clerk]], [[magistrates]], and Circuit Court [[judge]]s.

Huntington's city council members are elected to four-year terms at the same time as the mayor. There are eleven members of the council, nine of whom represent single-member districts, while the other two are elected at large. The city council has the authority to draft and debate ordinances and can override a mayoral veto with a two-thirds majority. As of February 2025, there are six [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] and five [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]] on the city council.<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 February 2025 |title=City Council Members |url=https://www.cityofhuntington.com/city-government/city-council-clerk/city-council-members/ |access-date=16 February 2025 |website=City of Huntington}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! District !! City Council !! District !! City Council
|- style="width:20%; vertical-align:top; text-align:left; background:#fefefe;"|
| District 1
| Jason Arthur (R)
| District 7
| Mike Shockley (D)
|- style="width:20%; vertical-align:top; text-align:left; background:#f6f6f6;"|
| District 2
| Todd Sweeney (R)
| District 8
| Linda Blough (R)
|- style="width:20%; vertical-align:top; text-align:left; background:#fefefe;"|
| District 3
| Tia "Fix" Rumbaugh (D)
| District 9
| Stacy Jo Holley (R)
|-  style="width:20%; vertical-align:top; text-align:left; background:#f6f6f6;"|
| District 4
| Sarah Walling (D)
| At Large
| Ally Layman (D)
|- style="width:20%; vertical-align:top; text-align:left; background:#fefefe;"|
| District 5
| Teresa Johnson (D)
| At Large
| Rob Archer (R)
|- style="width:20%; vertical-align:top; text-align:left; background:#f6f6f6;"|
| District 6
| Holly Smith Mount (D)
|
|
|}
{{hidden begin|title=List of mayors of Huntington, West Virginia|titlestyle=background:#F8F8FF;width:60%}}
* [[Peter Cline Buffington]], 1871–1874<ref name=Arcadia2003 />
* Albert H. Woodworth, 1886–1887
* Edward S. Buffington, circa 1879
* Ely Ensign, 1896<ref name=Arcadia2003>{{cite book|title=Huntington|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g6GVdsK9R1gC|year=2003|publisher=Arcadia|location=Charleston, South Carolina|series=Images of America|isbn=978-0-7385-1599-1|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308223318/https://books.google.com/books?id=g6GVdsK9R1gC|archive-date=March 8, 2017}}</ref>
* William F. Hite, circa 1897<ref name=Arcadia2003 />
* John Walton Ensign, circa 1906<ref name=Arcadia2003 />
* Floyd Sanford Chapman, circa 1912
* Edmund Sehon, circa 1915–1917<ref name=AHS1923>{{cite book|title=History of West Virginia, Old and New |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofwestvir02call |year=1923 |publisher=American Historical Society, Inc. |location=Chicago |oclc=42346040}}</ref>
* E. N. Miller, circa 1917<ref>{{cite book|title=Official Register Division of the West Virginia Legislative Hand Book and Manual |chapter=Municipalities |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qFQNAAAAIAAJ |year=1917 |publisher=Tribune Printing Company |location=Charleston |editor=John T. Harris |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151129184154/https://books.google.com/books?id=qFQNAAAAIAAJ |archive-date=November 29, 2015}}</ref>
* Charles William Campbell, 1919–1922<ref name=AHS1923 /><ref name=Arcadia2003 />
* [[Will E. Neal]], 1925–1928
* J. Boyce Taylor, circa 1930<ref name=Arcadia2003 />
* Bobby Nelson, 1985-1993 (1st under "Strong Mayor / City Council" format)
* Jean Dean, 1993-2000<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000901044417/http://www.cityofhuntington.com/mayor.html |url=http://www.cityofhuntington.com/mayor.html |archive-date=September 1, 2000 |title=Mayor's Office |work=Cityofhuntington.com |via=Internet Archive, [[Wayback Machine]] |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[David Felinton]], 2001–2008<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011024062652/http://www.cityofhuntington.com/mayor.html |url=http://www.cityofhuntington.com/mayor.html |archive-date=October 24, 2001 |title=Mayor's Office |work=Cityofhuntington.com |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Kim Wolfe, 2009–2012
* [[Stephen T. Williams]], 2013-2025 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cityofhuntington.com/city-government/mayor |title= City Government: Mayor |work= Cityofhuntington.com |publisher= City of Huntington |access-date= March 8, 2017 |url-status= live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170308224115/http://www.cityofhuntington.com/city-government/mayor |archive-date= March 8, 2017 |df= mdy-all}}</ref>
*Patrick Farrell, 2025-present <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsaz.com/2024/11/06/patrick-farrell-elected-huntington-mayor/ |title=Patrick Farrell elected as Huntington mayor |date=November 6, 2024 }}</ref>

Honorary
* [[Justin McElroy]], 2016- ([[My Brother, My Brother and Me#TV show|honorary]])<ref name=":0">{{cite episode|title="Resumes and Jamiroquai's Dad." |series=My Brother, My Brother, and Me |network=VRV |date=February 23, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Travis McElroy]], 2016- (honorary)<ref name=":0" />
* [[Griffin McElroy]], 2016- (honorary)<ref name=":0" />
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