2018 West Virginia Midterm Election

U.S. Senate

The incumbent: Joe Manchin (Democrat), a popular former governor who was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010

The challenger: Patrick Morrisey (Republican), the state’s current attorney general, the first Republican elected to that post since 1933
 
Politics: Long a Democratic stronghold, Republican presidential candidates have carried West Virginia handily since 2000. Republican Donald Trump won the state by a staggering 68% to 26% margin in 2016.

West Virginia’s other U.S. senator is Shelley Moore Capito, a Republican

The GOP holds all three of the state’s seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

There is no gubernatorial race in West Virginia this year.

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