Riding profile

WV-2

US House district — WV · Mixed · us wv

The question

WV-2: a safe seat for the Republicans?

Editorial read

WV-2, a mixed riding in WV, elected a member with the Republicans in the previous cycle, with a 42-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the Republicans ahead at 68% vote share, against 32% for the Democrats, and the probability of a close race is negligible.

Sitting member

MOORE, RILEY

Sits with Republican

Who's running

The candidates

Declared and on-ballot candidates for the upcoming election.

  • Republican Incumbent

    Moore, Riley

  • Democrat Challenger

    Parsi, Ahsan

  • Democrat Challenger

    Tomana, Stephanie

  • Democrat Challenger

    Wendelin, Steven Commander Usn, (Ret)

Current forecast

Republican

Safe

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
35.7
P(close race)
0%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • Republican 67.8%
  • Democrat 32.2%

In context

How this riding stacks up

Republican Democrat
HereWV-2 67.8%32.2%
National averageUnited States 46.6% +21.2 51.9% −19.7

Nationwide averages computed across the 435 riding-level projections (unweighted mean).

Projection track

How the projection has moved

Previous election · US HOUSE_2024

Won by
Republican
Margin
41.5 pts
Margin shift vs current projection
-5.9 pts

Around the region

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Last model run
Cycle
us_house_2026