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Kate Compton Barr
Kate Compton Barr (Democratic Party) ran for election to the North Carolina State Senate to represent District 37. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Compton Barr completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Kate Compton Barr was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She earned both a bachelor's degree and a graduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2004 and 2008, respectively. Her career experience includes working as a researcher and a part-owner of a small business.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: North Carolina State Senate elections, 2024
General election
General election for North Carolina State Senate District 37
Incumbent Vickie Sawyer defeated Kate Compton Barr in the general election for North Carolina State Senate District 37 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Vickie Sawyer (R) | 64.7 | 82,832 |
 | Kate Compton Barr (D)  | 35.3 | 45,129 | |
| Total votes: 127,961 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Kate Compton Barr advanced from the Democratic primary for North Carolina State Senate District 37.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Vickie Sawyer advanced from the Republican primary for North Carolina State Senate District 37.
Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Compton Barr in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Kate Compton Barr completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Compton Barr's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Our leaders should have to work hard to earn the right to represent us. Instead, gerrymandering gifts seats to people without any competition - it's a coronation not an election. Competition is necessary for our democracy -it's how we hold our leaders accountable.
My philosophy has always been that if we each dig in and do the work in our communities, things improve globally. The people who live and work in an area know best what needs to change.
To that end, I have been working my community, first as a member of the Town Planning Board, then as a member of the Town Sustainability and Town Mobilities committees. I've served on the board of a number of local nonprofits, most notably as sitting PTO president of our local public K-8 school and president of the Davidson Cornelius Child Development Center Board, our community's only nonprofit childcare center.
While I can't win, I do believe that if I was elected, I would bring a lot of deep community knowledge and know-how to the job.- Gerrymandering is wrong, no matter which party is doing it. Representative democracy dictates that we have the opportunity to actually choose our leaders. In a gerrymander, politicians choose their voters instead of voters choosing their politicians.
- Abortion rights, fully funded public education, and common sense gun laws are all popular with a majority of NC voters. Yet, we cannot move forward on these goals with an unrepresentative state legislature.
- We need an independent commission to draw our districts. We are a purple state and our state legislature should demonstrate that. Power hungry politicans have put their job security over the well being of their constituents. It has to stop.
Second bill: Extend abortion access.
I believe in fully governmental transparency. Let the sun shine in.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 28, 2024
