Andy Bowline
Andy Bowline (Democratic Party) is running for election to the North Carolina State Senate to represent District 31. The Democratic primary for this office on March 3, 2026, was canceled.
Bowline completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2026. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Andy Bowline earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a graduate degree from Wake Forest University.[1]
Elections
2026
See also: North Carolina State Senate elections, 2026
General election
The general election will occur on November 3, 2026.
The candidate list in this election may not be complete.
General election for North Carolina State Senate District 31
Incumbent Dana Caudill Jones (R) and Andy Bowline (D) are running in the general election for North Carolina State Senate District 31 on November 3, 2026.
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Democratic primary
The Democratic primary scheduled for March 3, 2026, was canceled. Andy Bowline (D) advanced from the Democratic primary for North Carolina State Senate District 31 without appearing on the ballot.
Republican primary
The Republican primary scheduled for March 3, 2026, was canceled. Incumbent Dana Caudill Jones (R) advanced from the Republican primary for North Carolina State Senate District 31 without appearing on the ballot.
Campaign finance
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2026
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Andy Bowline completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2026. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Bowline's responses.
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I live in Winston-Salem with my family. I have two kids in NC public schools who are, frankly, more politically aware than I was at their age. Before the stay-at-home dad chapter, I co-founded a health tech company, worked as a software developer and nonprofit consultant, and got an MBA from Wake Forest.
District 31 is about 30 points Republican. I am not going to win this race. But I want to, because the alternative is that nobody shows up, the incumbent faces zero accountability, and voters in this district keep getting representation they never had to agree to.
I care about public schools, healthcare access, corporate accountability, and fair maps. I don't have a PAC or consultants. I have a laptop, a campaign slogan that doubles as a confession, and a family that deserves to see me try.- Show up anyway. District 31 is R+30. The map was drawn to guarantee the outcome before a single vote was cast. But when nobody runs, nobody's accountable. I'm here to make sure voters have a choice and my opponent has to earn it.
- Your money, your receipts. We're handing billions in tax breaks to corporations with no clawbacks, no audits, and no follow-up. Did the jobs show up? Did wages go up? Nobody's asking. I will.
- Fund what actually works. We're dead last in per-student spending. Voucher money overwhelmingly goes to kids already in private school. Medicaid expansion covered 700,000 people and it's working. Stop defunding the things that help real people to pay for tax cuts that don't.
Healthcare. 700,000 North Carolinians got coverage through Medicaid expansion. A third are in rural communities. It's working. Protect it.
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Campaign finance summary
Campaign finance information for this candidate is not yet available from OpenSecrets. That information will be published here once it is available.
See also
2026 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 2, 2026
