Rick Moye

Education

Elections

• 2012 Redistricted to District 29, Moye and returning 2006 Republican opponent Ron Hedrick both won their May 8, 2012 primaries, setting up a rematch; Moye won the November 6, 2012 General election with 4,049 votes against Hedrick, who had also run for the District 27 seat in 2004.
• 2006 When District 27 incumbent Democratic Representatives Robert S. Kiss retired and Sally Susman ran for West Virginia Senate leaving two district seats open, Moye placed in the ten-way five-selectee 2006 Democratic Primary and was elected in the ten-way five-position November 7, 2006 General election along with incumbent Representatives Virginia Mahan, Linda Sumner, and Ron Thompson, and Democratic nominee Mel Kessler, who had run for the seat in 2002.
• 2008 When Representative Kessler ran for West Virginia Governor and left a seat open, Moye placed third in the ten-way May 13, 2008 Democratic Primary with 7,941 votes, and placed second in the ten-way five-position November 4, 2008 General election with 15,918 votes behind incumbent Representative Sumner and ahead of former state Senator Bill Wooten and Representatives Susman and Mahan, and non-selectees Louis Gall, Jeffrey Pack, Dereck Severt, Philip Stevens and Albert Honaker.
• 2010 Moye placed first in the six-way May 11, 2010 Democratic Primary with 4,346 votes, and placed third in the nine-way five-position November 2, 2010 General election with 11,644 votes behind Representatives Sumner and Republican nominee Rick Snuffer and ahead of Republican nominee John O'Neal and Representative Wooten, and non-selectees former Representative Susman, unseating Representatives Kessler and Mahan, and Republican nominee Richard Franklin.