North Carolina House of Representatives District 5 candidate surveys, 2022

Elections in North Carolina, 2022

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This article shows responses from candidates in the 2022 election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 5 who completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey.

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Candidates and election results

General election

General election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 5

Bill Ward defeated incumbent Howard Hunter III in the general election for North Carolina House of Representatives District 5 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Bill Ward (R)	53.8	15,784
		Howard Hunter III (D)	46.2	13,539

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 29,323
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Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Bill Ward (R)

Education is one of the major areas that we must focus upon. Testing shows that as a nation we lag behind most developed nations. Emphasis must be placed upon returning to academics as opposed to social experiments and indoctrination. Parents must be included in the narrative in determining what their children are taught and in determining what direction their children are lead whether it be public schools, charter schools or private schools.

Public safety is an area that we must also focus upon. Over the past two years, we have watched as anarchist have burned and destroyed our cities calling for defunding of police, bail reform and court reform. We must ensure that all of our public safety entities, police, fire and emergency medical, are funded at an appropriate level to provide the safety that is required. We must move away from bond reform that allows criminals to be released back into our communities only to offend again and court reform to ensure that criminals are appropriately punished.

Election integrity is a major concern. We must ensure that only citizens are allowed to vote in our elections. Voter I.D. and signature verification must be implemented to ensure that outside interference does not occur.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Bill Ward (R)

We must return to the founding principles of our Constitutional Republic. Term limits will ensure that we have citizen legislators as opposed to career politicians. We must push for fiscal responsibility and smaller government with less intrusion into the lives of our citizens. We must ensure that our children have the best access to education that is free from social experiments and indoctrination and allow parents to have an active part in determining the future of those children. We must ensure that our elections are free and fair and that the electoral process is available to only our citizens through voter I.D. and signature verification on ballots without interference from outside entities.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

Bill Ward (R)

President Ronald Reagan. He was a conservative that united the country, led us out of world submission and actively led in the downfall of communism.

See also

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