Morgantown: who represents it, and who is running

West Virginia General Election (Monongalia County) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senate (Capito seat); U.S. House WV-2; State Senate District 13 (Oliverio seat); House of Delegates districts (79th at City Hall); Monongalia County Commission; Board of Education unexpired term; constitutional amendment; county EMS levy. No City of Morgantown election in 2026 — next is April 27, 2027..

Holding office14
the sitting council
On the ballot10
4 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Morgantown is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): West Virginia's 2nd congressional district (whole city) — Riley M. Moore (Republican)

1

Council Member

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Danielle Trumble Elected Council Member Independent Fifth Ward City of Morgantown
Gail Taylor Elected Council Member Independent Seventh Ward City of Morgantown
Jennifer Selin Elected Council Member Independent Fourth Ward City of Morgantown
Jodi Hollingshead Elected Council Member Independent Second Ward City of Morgantown
Louise Michael Elected Council Member Independent Third Ward City of Morgantown
M. Joe Abu-Ghannam Elected Council Member Independent First Ward City of Morgantown
Mark Downs Elected Council Member Independent Sixth Ward City of Morgantown
2

Governor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Patrick Morrisey Elected Governor — WV Office of the Governor
3

Member of the House of Delegates — HD-79

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Evan Hansen ✉️ Elected Member of the House of Delegates → Running Democratic West Virginia Legislature
Paige Reiring Member of the House of Delegates Running Mountain Monongalia County Clerk
4

State Senator — SD-13

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Joey Garcia ✉️ Elected State Senator Democratic West Virginia Legislature
Mike Oliverio ✉️ Elected State Senator → Running Republican West Virginia Legislature
John Williams State Senator Running Democratic Monongalia County Clerk
Taylor Richmond State Senator Running Libertarian Monongalia County Clerk
5

U.S. Senator

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
James C. Justice Elected U.S. Senator Republican @unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0)
Shelley Moore Capito Elected U.S. Senator → Running Republican @unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0)
Rachel Fetty Anderson Candidate Running Democratic Monongalia County Clerk
S. Marshall Wilson Candidate Running Constitution Monongalia County Clerk
6

U.S. Representative — WV-2

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Riley M. Moore Elected U.S. Representative → Running Republican Office of the Clerk, U.S. House
Ace Parsi Candidate Running Democratic Monongalia County Clerk
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Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

  • Districts: Census Geocoder at City Hall (389 Spruce St) gives WV-2, SD-13, Delegate District 79. A 12x12 grid (42 inside points): WV-2 42/42, SD-13 42/42; Delegate districts 79 (15), 81 (12), 80 (8), 78 (3), 82 (3), 77 (1). Only the City Hall delegate seat (79) is recorded as people.
  • Candidates: Monongalia County Clerk 2026 General Election sample ballots (linked from monongaliacountyclerk.com/index.php/elections/17-current-election/124-2026-general-election-information). Precinct 10's ballot carries the 79th Delegate District: Evan Hansen (DEM) v Paige Reiring (MTN), no REP nominated. Precinct 1 (78th: Geno Chiarelli REP v Michael Wendell DEM) and Precinct 23 (80th: Olivia Miller DEM, no REP) also read; those districts do not contain City Hall and are not recorded as people. Statewide/federal lines match the us-clarksburg record (U.S. Senate: Capito REP, Rachel Fetty Anderson DEM, S. Marshall Wilson CST; WV-2: Riley Moore REP, Ace Parsi DEM). SD-13: Mike Oliverio REP, John Williams DEM, Taylor Richmond LBN. Write-ins skipped; residence lines (town/county) not copied.
  • Sitting legislators: wvlegislature.gov Senate and House rosters (read 2026-11-01): SD-13 Mike Oliverio (R) and Joey Garcia (D); HD-79 Evan Hansen (D). Official @wvsenate.gov / @wvhouse.gov emails as printed; office phones and Capitol room addresses not copied. Rep. Riley Moore, Senators Capito and Justice and Governor Morrisey carried over from us-clarksburg.
  • Municipal: City Council page (morgantownwv.gov/154/City-Council): seven ward members — M. Joe Abu-Ghannam (First), Jodi Hollingshead (Second), Louise Michael (Third), Jennifer Selin (Fourth), Danielle Trumble (Fifth), Mark Downs (Sixth), Gail Taylor (Seventh). Council-manager charter (1977); non-partisan. Election Information page (/157/Election-Information): 'The next Morgantown City Council Election takes place on April 27, 2027' ... 'held on the last Tuesday of April in odd years'; four-year terms July 1 - June 30; the 2027 election covers the odd-numbered wards; council selects the Mayor and Deputy Mayor for one-year terms — current holders not stated on the pages read.
  • standsFor null for everyone.
  • Robots/terms: morgantownwv.gov robots.txt has a named group including ClaudeBot (Disallow on /activedit, /admin, /search, /calendar.aspx, /faq.aspx etc. — not '/'); Crawl-delay 10 in the '*' group honoured. monongaliacountyclerk.com ('User-agent: *', Joomla admin paths only), wvlegislature.gov (/apps/ etc. disallowed — not used), geocoding.geo.census.gov (no robots.txt). Search results used only to find the county clerk's page. The county's Candidate_Filing_26G.pdf prints home addresses, phones and personal emails — nothing copied from it (it covered only two late county filings). No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded.
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Sources

Prepared 2026-11-01. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.