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North Carolina school board elections, 2026
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Ballotpedia covers tens of thousands of school board elections across the United States each year. This page contains links to this state's school districts where Ballotpedia is covering elections in 2026. The following table lists districts that overlap with the nation's 100 largest cities or that are among the nation's 200 largest school districts and for which Ballotpedia provides comprehensive coverage.
Editor's note: Some school districts choose to cancel the primary election, or both the primary and general election, if the number of candidates who filed does not meet a certain threshold. The table below does not reflect which primary or general elections were canceled. Please click through to each school district's page for more information.
| District | Primary | Primary Runoff | General Election | General Runoff Election | Seats up for election | Total board seats | 2023-2024 enrollment |
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| Cabarrus County Schools | 3/3/2026 | 5/12/2026 | 11/3/2026 | - | 3 | 7 | 35,021 |
| Cumberland County Schools | - | - | 11/3/2026 | - | 3 | 9 | 49,314 |
| Durham Public Schools | - | - | 3/3/2026 | - | 4 | 7 | 31,339 |
| Guilford County Schools | 3/3/2026 | 5/12/2026 | 11/3/2026 | - | 5 | 9 | 67,832 |
| Johnston County Schools | 3/3/2026 | 5/12/2026 | 11/3/2026 | - | 3 | 7 | 37,289 |
| Union County Public Schools | 3/3/2026 | - | 11/3/2026 | - | 4 | 9 | 41,687 |
| Wake County Public School System | - | - | 11/3/2026 | - | 4 | 9 | 161,481 |
| Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools | 3/3/2026 | 5/12/2026 | 11/3/2026 | - | 9 | 9 | 52,157 |
Recalls
- See also: Recall campaigns in North Carolina and School board recalls
| State | Specific grounds required? | Signature requirement | Petition circulation time | When recalls can start |
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| North Carolina | No | 10% of registered voters in the jurisdiction as of the last election[1] | 30 days | Recalls cannot start until an official has been in office for six months, and they cannot start in the last six months of an officer's term[1] |
See also
| North Carolina | School Boards | News and Analysis |
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 North Carolina General Assembly, "1993 SESSION: CHAPTER 660: SENATE BILL 1682," accessed July 29, 2021
- ↑ The raw data for this study was provided by Dave Leip of Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
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