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United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina, 2024
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in North Carolina were on November 5, 2024. Voters elected 14 candidates to serve in the U.S. House from each of the state's 14 U.S. House districts. The primary was March 5, 2024, and a primary runoff was May 14, 2024. The filing deadline was December 15, 2023.
Partisan breakdown
| Members of the U.S. House from North Carolina -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2024 | After the 2024 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 6 | 4 | |
| Republican Party | 7 | 10 | |
| Vacancy | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 14 | 14 | |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- Donald Davis (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Laurie Buckhout (Republican Party)
- Tom Bailey (Libertarian Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- John Schaffer (Independent)
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Donald Davis (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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Minor Party primary candidates
Libertarian Party
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
District 2
General election candidates
- Deborah Ross (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Alan Swain (Republican Party)
- Michael Dublin (Green Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Jon Bass (Independent)
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- Deborah Ross (Incumbent) ✔
- Michael Camero
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Did not make the ballot:
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Minor Party primary candidates
Green Party
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
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District 3
General election candidates
- Gregory Murphy (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Gheorghe Cormos (Libertarian Party)
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The Democratic Party primary was canceled. No candidates filed for this race.
Republican primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Gregory Murphy (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Minor Party primary candidates
Libertarian Party
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 4
General election candidates
- Valerie Foushee (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Eric Blankenburg (Republican Party)
- Guy Meilleur (Libertarian Party)
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This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Valerie Foushee (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Minor Party primary candidates
Libertarian Party
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
District 5
General election candidates
- Virginia Foxx (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Chuck Hubbard (Democratic Party)
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This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
Did not make the ballot:
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- Virginia Foxx (Incumbent) ✔
- Ryan Mayberry
District 6
General election candidates
- Addison McDowell (Republican Party) ✔
- Kevin E. Hayes (Constitution Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Derek Mobley (Independent)
- Anduin Craighill-Middleton (Democratic Party) (Write-in)
Democratic primary candidates
The Democratic Party primary was canceled. No candidates filed for this race.
Did not make the ballot:
- Kathy Manning (Incumbent)
Republican primary candidates
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District 7
General election candidates
- David Rouzer (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Marlando Pridgen (Democratic Party)
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This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
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This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- David Rouzer (Incumbent) ✔
District 8
General election candidates
- Justin Dues (Democratic Party)
- Mark Harris (Republican Party) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
- Dan Bishop (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
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This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
Did not make the ballot:
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District 9
General election candidates
- Richard Hudson (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Nigel Bristow (Democratic Party)
- Shelane Etchison (Independent)
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This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
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- Richard Hudson (Incumbent) ✔
- Troy Tarazon
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District 10
General election candidates
- Ralph Scott Jr. (Democratic Party)
- Pat Harrigan (Republican Party) ✔
- Todd Helm (Constitution Party)
- Steven Feldman (Libertarian Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Darren Warren (Independent)
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This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
- Patrick T. McHenry (Incumbent)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Minor Party primary candidates
Libertarian Party
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 11
General election candidates
- Chuck Edwards (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Caleb Rudow (Democratic Party)
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
Republican primary candidates
- Chuck Edwards (Incumbent) ✔
- Christian Reagan
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District 12
General election candidates
- Alma Adams (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Addul Ali (Republican Party)
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This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Alma Adams (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 13
General election candidates
- Frank Pierce (Democratic Party)
- Brad Knott (Republican Party) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
- Josh Anderson (Independent)
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- Kelly Daughtry (unofficially withdrew)
- Brad Knott ✔
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
Did not make the ballot:
- Wiley Nickel (Incumbent)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey Republican primary candidates
- Chris Baker
- DeVan Barbour IV
- Kelly Daughtry ✔
- Marcus Dellinger
- David Dixon
- Brad Knott ✔
- Steve Von Loor
- Josh McConkey
- James Phillips
- Sid Sharma
- Matt Shoemaker
- Eric Stevenson
- Fred Von Canon
- Kenny Xu
Did not make the ballot:
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District 14
General election candidates
- Pamela Genant (Democratic Party)
- Timothy K. Moore (Republican Party) ✔
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
- Jeff Jackson (Incumbent)
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Did not make the ballot:
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Voting information
- See also: Voting in North Carolina
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.[1]
- 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.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
- North Carolina's 1st Congressional District
- North Carolina's 2nd Congressional District
- North Carolina's 3rd Congressional District
- North Carolina's 4th Congressional District
- North Carolina's 5th Congressional District
- North Carolina's 6th Congressional District
- North Carolina's 7th Congressional District
- North Carolina's 8th Congressional District
- North Carolina's 9th Congressional District
- North Carolina's 10th Congressional District
- North Carolina's 11th Congressional District
- North Carolina's 12th Congressional District
- North Carolina's 13th Congressional District
- North Carolina's 14th Congressional District
Ballot access
The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in North Carolina in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in North Carolina, click here.
| Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 8,000, whichever is greater[5] | $1,740.00 | 12/15/2023 | Source |
| North Carolina | U.S. House | Unaffiliated | 10,000[6] | $1,740.00 | 3/5/2024 | Source |
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about competitiveness, presidential election history, and party control in the state.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the state's U.S. House districts.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in North Carolina.
| North Carolina U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office | Districts/ offices |
Seats | Open seats | Candidates | Possible primaries | Contested Democratic primaries | Contested Republican primaries | % of contested primaries | Incumbents in contested primaries | % of incumbents in contested primaries | ||||
| 2024 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 64 | 28 | 2 | 11 | 46.4% | 4 | 44.4% | ||||
| 2022 | 14 | 14 | 4 | 100 | 28 | 9 | 13 | 78.6% | 7 | 70.0% | ||||
| 2020 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 64 | 26 | 8 | 5 | 50.0% | 3 | 30.0% | ||||
| 2018 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 56 | 26 | 10 | 7 | 65.4% | 8 | 61.5% | ||||
| 2016 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 74 | 26 | 6 | 10 | 61.5% | 9 | 75.0% | ||||
| 2014 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 60 | 26 | 8 | 9 | 65.4% | 6 | 60.0% | ||||
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in North Carolina in 2024. Information below was calculated on 1/10/2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Sixty-four candidates filed to run for North Carolina’s 14 U.S. House districts in 2024, including 15 Democrats and 49 Republicans. That’s 4.6 candidates per district, less than the 7.14 candidates per district in 2022, the first election after the number of congressional districts in North Carolina increased from 13 to 14.
In 2020, when the state still had 13 Congressional districts, 4.9 candidates filed to run. In 2018, 4.3 candidates filed, and, in 2016, 5.7 did.
The 2024 election was the first to take place under new district lines that the North Carolina General Assembly adopted on October 25, 2023.
The 64 candidates who filed to run in 2024 were fewer than the 100 who ran in 2022. In 2020, 64 candidates also ran, although North Carolina had one fewer district then. Fifty-six candidates ran in 2018, the decade low.
Five seats were open in 2024, one more than in 2022 and a decade high.
Reps. Jeff Jackson (D-14th) and Dan Bishop (R-8th) did not run for re-election in order to run for state attorney general, while Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-10th) retired from public office. Reps. Kathy Manning (D-6th) and Wiley Nickel (D-13th), who did not run for re-election either, cited the partisan lean of their redrawn districts as the reason.
Fifteen candidates—one Democrat and 14 Republicans—ran for the open 13th district, the most candidates running for a seat in 2024. Thirteen primaries—two Democratic and 11 Republican—were contested. That was fewer than the 22 contested primaries in 2022, and tied with 2020 as the lowest number of contested primaries this decade. As a percentage of all possible primaries, the 13 contested primaries in 2024 were the lowest this decade (46%). North Carolina had 13 districts in 2020, making the 13 contested primaries that year 50% of all possible major party primaries.
Four incumbents—one Democrat and three Republicans—faced primary challengers. The 3rd and 6th Congressional districts were guaranteed to Republicans because no Democrats filed to run. Republicans filed to run in every congressional district, meaning none were guaranteed to Democrats.
| Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index for North Carolina, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| District | Incumbent | Party | PVI |
| North Carolina's 1st | Donald Davis |  Democratic |
R+1 |
| North Carolina's 2nd | Deborah Ross | Democratic |
D+15 |
| North Carolina's 3rd | Gregory Murphy |  Republican |
R+11 |
| North Carolina's 4th | Valerie Foushee | Democratic |
D+21 |
| North Carolina's 5th | Virginia Foxx | Republican |
R+10 |
| North Carolina's 6th | Kathy Manning | Democratic |
R+11 |
| North Carolina's 7th | David Rouzer | Republican |
R+8 |
| North Carolina's 8th | Dan Bishop | Republican |
R+11 |
| North Carolina's 9th | Richard Hudson | Republican |
R+9 |
| North Carolina's 10th | Patrick McHenry | Republican |
R+10 |
| North Carolina's 11th | Chuck Edwards | Republican |
R+8 |
| North Carolina's 12th | Alma Adams | Democratic |
D+23 |
| North Carolina's 13th | Wiley Nickel | Democratic |
R+11 |
| North Carolina's 14th | Jeff Jackson | Democratic |
R+11 |
| 2020 presidential results in congressional districts based on 2024 district lines, North Carolina[7] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District | Joe Biden
|
Donald Trump
| ||
| North Carolina's 1st | 50.4% | 48.8% | ||
| North Carolina's 2nd | 66.9% | 31.5% | ||
| North Carolina's 3rd | 40.7% | 58.0% | ||
| North Carolina's 4th | 72.4% | 26.2% | ||
| North Carolina's 5th | 41.8% | 57.2% | ||
| North Carolina's 6th | 41.2% | 57.5% | ||
| North Carolina's 7th | 43.9% | 54.9% | ||
| North Carolina's 8th | 40.6% | 58.3% | ||
| North Carolina's 9th | 42.4% | 56.3% | ||
| North Carolina's 10th | 41.4% | 57.4% | ||
| North Carolina's 11th | 43.8% | 54.8% | ||
| North Carolina's 12th | 74.4% | 24.2% | ||
| North Carolina's 13th | 40.7% | 57.9% | ||
| North Carolina's 14th | 41.4% | 57.5% | ||
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of North Carolina's congressional delegation as of May 2024.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from North Carolina | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Republican | 2 | 10 | 12 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 14 | 16 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in North Carolina's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.
| State executive officials in North Carolina, May 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | Roy Cooper
|
| Lieutenant Governor | Mark Robinson
|
| Secretary of State | Elaine Marshall
|
| Attorney General | Josh Stein
|
State legislature
North Carolina State Senate
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 20 | |
| Republican Party | 30 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 50 | |
North Carolina House of Representatives
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 48 | |
| Republican Party | 72 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 120 | |
Trifecta control
The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.
North Carolina Party Control: 1992-2024
Fourteen years of Democratic trifectas • Four years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| Senate | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| House | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Petition signatures only required in lieu of filing fee.
- ↑ Petition signatures only required in lieu of filing fee.
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' presidential results by congressional district for 2020, 2016, and 2012," accessed December 15, 2023
