West Virginia congressional elections

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RaceTracker 2012 Congressional Election Dashboard
2012 House report · 2012 Senate report
	House¹: 435 seats			Senate: 33 seats
	GOP	Dems	Total	GOP	Dems	Total
Confirmed primary challenges	63	32	95	4	4	8
Possible primary challenges	13	5	18	1	0	1
Open seats*	7	15	26	2	6	9²

1. Does not include the special election in OR-01.
2. Includes Joe Lieberman, who is retiring from his Conn. senate seat.

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U.S. Senate

Seats up for election in 2012:

Select seat for race details	Incumbent	Photo	Party	Next election	Incumbent running	Primary challenge	Confirmed candidates	Possible candidates
WV-Senate Class I Seat	Joe Manchin		Democratic	2012	Yes	No	Joe Manchin	Shelley Moore Capito John Raese David McKinley

Select seat for race details	Incumbent	Photo	Party	Incumbent running	Primary challenge	Confirmed candidates	Possible candidates
WV-01	David McKinley		Republican	Yes	Maybe	Susan Thorn David McKinley	Alan Mollohan Daniel Swisher
WV-02	Shelley Moore Capito	No photo on file.	Republican	Yes	Yes	Jonathan Miller Michael Davis Dugald Brown William McCann Howard Swint Shelley Moore Capito	Virginia Graf Thornton Cooper
WV-03	Nick Joe Rahall		Democratic	Yes	No	Lee Bias Bill Lester Nick Joe Rahall	Rick Snuffer