North Carolina's 2nd Congressional District election, 2026

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North Carolina's 2nd Congressional District
General election
Election details
Filing deadline: December 19, 2025
Primary: Pending Primary runoff: Pending General: November 3, 2026
How to vote
Poll times: 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Voting in North Carolina
Race ratings
Cook Political Report: Solid Democratic DDHQ and The Hill: Pending Inside Elections: Solid Democratic Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Democratic
Ballotpedia analysis
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All U.S. House districts, including the 2nd Congressional District of North Carolina, are holding elections in 2026. The general election is November 3, 2026. To learn more about other elections on the ballot, click here.

Candidates and election results

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• Register with a federal or state campaign finance agency before the candidate filing deadline
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Note: At this time, Ballotpedia is combining all declared candidates for this election into one list under a general election heading. As primary election dates are published, this information will be updated to separate general election candidates from primary candidates as appropriate.

General election

The general election will occur on November 3, 2026.

General election for U.S. House North Carolina District 2

Incumbent Deborah Ross is running in the general election for U.S. House North Carolina District 2 on November 3, 2026.

		Candidate
		Deborah Ross (D)

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Candidate profiles

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Voting information

See also: Voting in North Carolina

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• Deborah Ross

Campaign finance

Name	Party	Receipts*	Disbursements**	Cash on hand	Date
Deborah Ross	Democratic Party	$556,902	$357,661	$936,752	As of June 30, 2025
Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2026. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). * According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee." ** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election.

General election race ratings

See also: Race rating definitions and methods

Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:

• Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
• Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
• Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.
• Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.

Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.

Race ratings: North Carolina's 2nd Congressional District election, 2026
Race tracker	Race ratings
	9/2/2025	8/26/2025	8/19/2025	8/12/2025
The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter	Solid Democratic	Solid Democratic	Solid Democratic	Solid Democratic
Decision Desk HQ and The Hill	Pending	Pending	Pending	Pending
Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales	Solid Democratic	Solid Democratic	Solid Democratic	Solid Democratic
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball	Safe Democratic	Safe Democratic	Safe Democratic	Safe Democratic
Note: Ballotpedia reviews external race ratings every week throughout the election season and posts weekly updates even if the media outlets have not revised their ratings during that week.

Ballot access

This section will contain information on ballot access related to this state's elections when it is available.

District history

The section below details election results for this office in elections dating back to 2020.

2024

See also: North Carolina's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024

North Carolina's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Democratic primary)

North Carolina's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Republican primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House North Carolina District 2

Incumbent Deborah Ross defeated Alan Swain and Michael Dublin in the general election for U.S. House North Carolina District 2 on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Deborah Ross (D)	66.3	268,662
		Alan Swain (R)	31.6	128,164
		Michael Dublin (G)	2.1	8,691

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 405,517
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Jon Bass (Independent)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 2

Incumbent Deborah Ross defeated Michael Camero in the Democratic primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 2 on March 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Deborah Ross	93.6	69,564
		Michael Camero	6.4	4,761

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 74,325
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 2

Alan Swain defeated Eugene Douglass and Robert Morales Vergara in the Republican primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 2 on March 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Alan Swain	59.5	25,759
		Eugene Douglass	22.5	9,751
		Robert Morales Vergara	17.9	7,747

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 43,257
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Sandy Roberson (R)

Green primary election

The Green primary election was canceled. Michael Dublin advanced from the Green primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 2.

2022

See also: North Carolina's 2nd Congressional District election, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. House North Carolina District 2

Incumbent Deborah Ross defeated Christine Villaverde in the general election for U.S. House North Carolina District 2 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Deborah Ross (D)	64.7	190,714
		Christine Villaverde (R)	35.3	104,155

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 294,869
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Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Deborah Ross advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 2.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• James Gailliard (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 2

Christine Villaverde defeated Mahesh Ganorkar and Adina Safta in the Republican primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 2 on May 17, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Christine Villaverde	55.1	19,650
		Mahesh Ganorkar	25.6	9,133
		Adina Safta	19.3	6,872

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 35,655
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Sid Sharma (R)
• Richard Ahrens (R)

2020

See also: North Carolina's 2nd Congressional District election, 2020

General election

General election for U.S. House North Carolina District 2

Deborah Ross defeated Alan Swain and Jeff Matemu in the general election for U.S. House North Carolina District 2 on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Deborah Ross (D)	63.0	311,887
		Alan Swain (R)	34.8	172,544
		Jeff Matemu (L)	2.2	10,914

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 495,345
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 2

Deborah Ross defeated Monika Johnson-Hostler, Andrew Terrell, and Ollie Nelson in the Democratic primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 2 on March 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Deborah Ross	69.8	103,574
		Monika Johnson-Hostler	22.5	33,369
		Andrew Terrell	5.8	8,666
		Ollie Nelson	1.8	2,677

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 148,286
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Jason Butler (D)
• Scott Cooper (D)

Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Alan Swain advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 2.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Michael Williams (R)

Libertarian primary election

The Libertarian primary election was canceled. Jeff Matemu advanced from the Libertarian primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 2.

District analysis

This section will contain facts and figures related to this district's elections when those are available.

See also

North Carolina	2026 primaries	2026 U.S. Congress elections
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Footnotes

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North Carolina's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Ted Budd (R)

Thom Tillis (R)

Representatives

District 1

Donald Davis (D)

District 2

Deborah Ross (D)

District 3

Gregory Murphy (R)

District 4

Valerie Foushee (D)

District 5

Virginia Foxx (R)

District 6

Addison McDowell (R)

District 7

David Rouzer (R)

District 8

Mark Harris (R)

District 9

Richard Hudson (R)

District 10

Pat Harrigan (R)

District 11

Chuck Edwards (R)

District 12

Alma Adams (D)

District 13

Brad Knott (R)

District 14

Timothy Moore (R)

Republican Party (12)

Democratic Party (4)

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