2026 results · West Virginia

Shelley Moore Capito, the Republican, wins West Virginia’s Senate race by 20.4 points

Donald Trump carried West Virginia by 41.9 points in 2024; the Senate race moved 21.4 points toward Democrats.

In the House, every one of the two contested seats moved toward Democrats, the median one 23.5 points (the largest median move of the 44 states with two or more).

Who won each county, and how far it moved

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West Virginia’s two House seats

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Solid: won. The tick marks a majority (2 of 2).

Every seat, 2024 to 2026. Open circle: the 2024 presidential margin in the district. Filled: the 2026 House margin. Ordered from the most Democratic result to the most Republican; the rule marks the 2 seats needed for a majority.

← moved toward Democrats, → toward Republicans, in points from the 2024 presidential vote in the district. * still counting: the expected finish.

Close up: the four counties that moved most

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Each county’s move from the 2024 presidential vote in the Senate race; the maps above show the result beside it.

In the Senate race, these moved furthest toward Democrats, among counties with 2,000 or more votes in 2024 and at least half a percent of the state’s.

Berkeley County
Moved 27.7 points toward Democrats: R+35.8 for president in 2024; Shelley Moore Capito, the Republican, carried it at R+8.1.
33,649 votes counted, 56,102 cast in 2024.
Lincoln County
Moved 24.8 points toward Democrats: R+62.5 for president in 2024; Shelley Moore Capito, the Republican, carried it at R+37.7.
3,400 votes counted, 7,187 cast in 2024.
Wayne County
Moved 24.6 points toward Democrats: R+53.4 for president in 2024; Shelley Moore Capito, the Republican, carried it at R+28.7.
8,356 votes counted, 15,747 cast in 2024.
Fayette County
Moved 24.3 points toward Democrats: R+41.8 for president in 2024; Shelley Moore Capito, the Republican, carried it at R+17.5.
8,813 votes counted, 15,620 cast in 2024.

No county compared moved the other way.

Who lives where it moved

Barely related across counties. On average, ten more points of adults with a degree went with a county about 0.1 points more Republican (r = −0.02).

By place

Suburban14 counties, 278,333 votes21.3 pts → D

Rural41 counties, 177,795 votes20.5 pts → D

By race and ethnicity

White non-Hispanic 85% or more52 counties, 400,020 votes20.7 pts → D

Every other county3 counties, 56,108 votes25.6 pts → D

Each group’s counties added together: its 2026 margin against its 2024 presidential margin. Census Bureau American Community Survey, 2019–2023. Counties, not voters: there are no exit polls here.

Every race in West Virginia

Senate and governor

SenateShelley Moore Capito Rover Rachel Fetty Anderson (D)R+20.4R+41.921.4 pts → Dwon

House

District 1Carol Miller Rover Vince George (D)R+17.5R+44.026.5 pts → Dwon District 2Riley Moore Rover Ace Parsi (D)R+18.8R+39.420.5 pts → Dwon

Ballot measures

Amendment No. 1: Citizenship requirement to vote in West Virginia elections amendment79.5% yespassing

Margins are the winner’s or leader’s lead in points of all votes cast. * Still counting: where we expect the count to finish. The move is the 2026 margin against the 2024 presidential margin on the same ground, for races between a Democrat and a Republican.

Ticket splitting

Across the 55 counties that lie wholly in one district, the Senate race went R+20.4 and the House races R+18.2: the Senate margin ran 2.2 points more Republican than the House margin. One county was carried by different parties in the two.

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Points of difference between the Senate margin and the House margin in each county.

Each circle is a county, its area the votes cast. Above the line the Senate Democrat did better than the House Democrat; below it, worse.

54011carried by different parties

Senate: R+2.6Anderson against Capito
House: D+0.2the district's race
Difference: R+2.8Capito ran ahead
Votes: about 22,246

Most votes firstSen.HouseDiff.

Margins are the Democrat minus the Republican in points of all votes cast in that race, from the counts the state’s election office has published so far; a county still counting is compared on what it has counted in both. The House is compared only in counties that lie wholly inside one congressional district, so the county's House margin is one race's margin; a county divided between districts, or in a district without a Democrat against a Republican, is left out. A difference is not a count of split tickets: a voter who skipped one race moves it too.

West Virginia’s legislature

Senate34 of 34 seats on the ballotBefore2–32Leaders4–302 seats are led by another party than held them. Republicans keep control.Every district, mapped →House of Delegates100 of 100 seats on the ballotBefore9–901 vacantLeaders21–7911 seats are led by another party than held them. Republicans keep control.Every district, mapped →

Counts are West Virginia’s official state and county counts, published by the West Virginia Secretary of State. Where a race is still being counted, its margin is where we expect the count to finish, marked *. A move from 2024 is the 2026 margin against Kamala Harris’s margin over Donald Trump in the same place. A race is won when we call it or the state certifies it.