Shelley Moore Capito

American politician (born 1953)

IncumbentU.S. Senate — WVRepublicanRunning nowVugol ID VM-7MQ-QA0B FEC S4WV00159

Running for U.S. Senate, WV, 2026

Link: vugol.me/p/shelley-moore-capito

Roster source: FEC filing (2026-08-26)

Headshot · unitedstates.github.io

Shelley Moore Capito — Photo — Photo · Shelley_Moore_Capito_CPAC_2013-2.jpg: Gage Skidmore derivative work: Gobonobo · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Shelley Moore Capito — Illustration · Vugol.me — Illustration · Vugol.me
Illustration by Vugol.me, adapted from Official U.S. Congress portrait · Public domain

Races

2026 · U.S. Senate, WV · General · Republican · on the ballot · incumbent
2022 · State House / Assembly, WV District 55 · Primary · Republican · won · 1,065 votes (100.0%) · source
2020 · U.S. Senate, WV · General · Republican · won · 547,454 votes (70.3%) · incumbent · source
2020 · State House / Assembly, WV District 35 · Primary · Republican · won · 5,819 votes (30.3%) · source
2018 · State House / Assembly, WV District 35 · General · Republican · won · 12,729 votes (14.4%) · source
2018 · State House / Assembly, WV District 35 · Primary · Republican · won · 3,952 votes (27.5%) · source

Background

Shelley Wellons Moore Capito is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from West Virginia.

A member of the Republican Party, Capito served from 2001 to 2015 as the U.S. representative from West Virginia's 2nd congressional district. She is the daughter of three-term West Virginia governor and six-term U.S. representative Arch Alfred Moore Jr.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-09-24 · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Moore_Capito

Campaign finance

$6,488,843total raised (2026 cycle)

$4,377,201cash on hand (2026 cycle)

$4,582,173total spent (2026 cycle)

As of 2026-06-30 · Source: FEC

Website and social

Official websitevia Wikidata

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Sources

Official portrait — public-domain congressional image set (unitedstates project)
Background — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-24 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Moore_Capito
Website and social links — Wikidata (CC0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q459618
Official social accounts — congress-legislators dataset (unitedstates project)
Roster — FEC filing — https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S4WV00159/
photo_headshot — https://unitedstates.github.io/
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shelley_Moore_Capito_CPAC_2013-2_cropped.jpg
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shelley_Moore_Capito_113th_Congress.jpg
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shelley_Moore_Capito_CPAC_2013-3.jpg
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shelley_Moore_Capito,_official_photo_portrait,_color.jpg
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shelley_Moore_Capito_(8566987964).jpg
photo_gallery — https://www.capito.senate.gov/about/about-shelley

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