Shelley Moore Capito

Republican · WV · U.S. Senate

On the ballot in 2026

West Virginia — U.S. Senate

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Bio

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.

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Record of service

In office: 25.7 years
Chambers: House 14y, Senate 11.7y
First took office: 2001 (9 terms)
Seniority: 17 of 100 by time served
Age: 72
Senate class: 2 · senior senator

Leadership

Senate Republican Conference Vice Chair · 2023–2025
Senate Republican Policy Committee Chair · 2025–present

Family in Congress

daughter of Arch Alfred Moore Jr.

District offices

Martinsburg, WV · 304-262-9285
Morgantown, WV · 304-292-2310
Charleston, WV · 304-347-5372

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2018

$2.5M

2019

$2.9M

2020

$3.3M

2021

$2.9M

2022

$2.6M

2023

$2.6M

2024

$2.7M

2025

$2.1M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $1.8M – $5.4M
Liabilities: $965k – $2.0M
Net worth: −$248k – $4.4M
Since 2018: −$381k

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.63

Healthcare

R+0.47

Immigration & Border

R+0.55

Guns

R+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.80

Crime & Policing

R+0.76

Defense & Veterans

R+0.73

Economy & Labor

R+0.72

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.54

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.15

Education

R+0.79

Government & Democracy

R+0.38

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+0.65

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Shelley Moore Capito's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

90%Closest

68%

35%

26%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

22%

Communist Party USA

20%

On the political map

Shelley Moore Capito (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

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Caucuses & committees

Where Capitosits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Capito's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.