North Carolina's 5th Congressional District election, 2026 (March 3 Democratic primary)

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North Carolina's 5th Congressional District
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Filing deadline: December 19, 2025
Primary: March 3, 2026
Primary runoff: May 12, 2026
General: November 3, 2026
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6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Voting in North Carolina

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A Democratic Party primary takes place on March 3, 2026, in North Carolina's 5th Congressional District to determine which Democratic candidate will run in the district's general election on November 3, 2026.

Candidate filing deadline Primary election General election
December 19, 2025
March 3, 2026
November 3, 2026



A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. North Carolina utilizes a semi-closed primary system. Parties decide who may vote in their respective primaries. Voters may choose a primary ballot without impacting their unaffiliated status.[1]

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

This page focuses on North Carolina's 5th Congressional District Democratic primary. For more in-depth information on the district's Republican primary and the general election, see the following pages:

Candidates and election results

Note: The following list includes official candidates only. Ballotpedia defines official candidates as people who:

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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 5

Kyah Creekmore is running in the Democratic primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 5 on March 3, 2026.

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Kyah Creekmore

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Party: Democratic Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "I’m a 24-year-old Gen Z American, born in Florida and raised in North Carolina. My story began in hardship: I’m the child of a 15-year-old mother who chose courage over pressure to end her pregnancy. We grew up poor, moving from home to home and school to school. 9 schools in total before I graduated from West Mecklenburg High. Those experiences taught me resilience, adaptability, and empathy for families who live on the edge. After high school, I attended North Carolina A&T for Industrial & Systems Engineering. College showed me I was good at learning, but my passion was people, not production lines. I explored small business, gaming, and content creation, winning $8,000 in a Call of Duty tournament, but also faced mental and financial lows that forced reflection. Through it all, I realized how detached government feels from real life. When I saw leaders like Donald Trump rise through division and privilege, I asked myself: if people like me don’t step up, who will? I’m running because I believe everyday people — not the wealthy and connected — deserve the loudest voice in our democracy. I’d rather fight to build change than sit back and complain about the lack of it."

Key Messages

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Health Care is a Non-Negotiable Human right. People shouldn't be choosing dinner over their doctor. A Grandmother shouldn't debate whether to get a checkup because the medical debt in their family is too stressful. We shouldn't have people rationing pills because Big Pharma needs a couple billion extra dollars to feed their CEO's. Sickness shouldn't have a PROFIT INCENTIVE.

We deserve housing that doesn't cost a lifetime's savings to acquire. We deserve housing that doesn't cost 50% of your paycheck and provides nothing but issues from slumlords. 30% of single family households shouldn't be owned by private equity artificially capping supply to up demand and pricing. The people are fed up and getting desperate.

The workers of America deserve so much more. They deserve a Worker's Constitution. For over 15 years the minimum wage hasn't gone up at all. People get fired, framed, and laid off work at unbelievable clips in every single industry. Every corporation has more power to abuse and manipulate workers, union busting is at an all time high, unionization is at an all time LOW, corporations are raking in record profits all while there's record efficiency, record unemployment, record low jobs numbers. We must begin to put the people first and give workers back their dignity where 1 job can afford a family , where food isn't out of reach, and home's don't cost a fortune.

Voting information

See also: Voting in North Carolina

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Campaign finance

Name Party Receipts* Disbursements** Cash on hand Date
Kyah Creekmore Democratic Party $92 $101 $-9 As of September 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.

District analysis

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

Ballot access

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in North Carolina in the 2026 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in North Carolina, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2026
State Office Party Signatures required Filing fee Filing deadline Source
North Carolina U.S. House Ballot-qualified party 5% of registered voters in the same party or 200, whichever is greater $1,740 12/19/2025 Source
North Carolina U.S. House Unaffiliated 1.5% of all registered N.C. voters in the district, as of January 1 of the election year. $1,740 12/19/2025 Source

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ North Carolina General Assembly, "N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163–119," accessed October 21, 2025


North Carolina's current delegation to the United States Congress
Senators
Ted Budd (R)
Thom Tillis (R)
Representatives
District 1
District 2
District 3
District 4
District 5
District 6
District 7
District 8
District 9
District 10
District 11
District 12
District 13
District 14
Republican Party (12)
Democratic Party (4)


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