State · November 3, 2026

North Carolina

15 races for U.S. Senate, U.S. House and governor, from the state's official list of candidates.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16

§1Statewide races

Why this matters: Every voter in North Carolina votes in these races.

U.S. Senate · North Carolina

4 on the ballot · open seat

§2U.S. House

Why this matters: You vote only in the House district where you live. Not sure which one? Use the address search above.

  • District 1
    Don Davis (Democratic Party) · Laurie Buckhout (Republican Party) · Tom Bailey (Libertarian Party)
  • District 2
    Eugene F. Douglass (Republican Party) · Deborah K. Ross (Democratic Party) · Matthew Laszacs (Libertarian Party)
  • District 3
    Daniel Cavender (Libertarian Party) · Raymond Smith (Democratic Party) · Greg Murphy (Republican Party)
  • District 4
    Valerie P. Foushee (Democratic Party) · Guy Meilleur (Libertarian Party) · Mahesh (Max) Ganorkar (Republican Party)
  • District 5
    Virginia Foxx (Republican Party) · Robert B. Luffman (Libertarian Party) · Chuck Hubbard (Democratic Party)
  • District 6
    Addison McDowell (Republican Party) · Cyril Jefferson (Democratic Party)
  • District 7
    Maad Abu-Ghazalah (Libertarian Party) · David Rouzer (Republican Party) · Kimberly Hardy (Democratic Party)
  • District 8
    Bo Whitehead (Green Party) · Colby Watson (Democratic Party) · Mark Harris (Republican Party)
  • District 9
    Richard N. Ojeda II (Democratic Party) · Richard Hudson (Republican Party)
  • District 10
    Steven Feldman (Libertarian Party) · Ashley Bell (Democratic Party) · Pat Harrigan (Republican Party)
  • District 11open seat
    Jennifer Capps Balkcom (Republican Party) · Jamie Ager (Democratic Party) · Travis Groo (Libertarian Party)
  • District 12
    Jack Codiga (Republican Party) · Alma S. Adams (Democratic Party)
  • District 13
    Paul Barringer (Democratic Party) · Steven Swinton (Libertarian Party) · Brad Knott (Republican Party)
  • District 14
    Lakesha Womack (Democratic Party) · Tim Moore (Republican Party)

§3Notes on the official list

  • The State Board of Elections does not call its candidate lists certified; its Candidate Lists page says the lists are not always final and can change. We used the general-election list by contest generated October 13, 2026, and checked it against the State Board’s candidate spreadsheet updated October 25, 2026. The two agree on every candidate, party and district listed here.
  • The State Board’s candidate list abbreviates party names (DEM, REP, LIB, GRE). We show each party the way the printed ballot words it, from the official sample ballots the State Board publishes: Democratic Party, Republican Party, Libertarian Party and Green Party. We read 14 of those sample ballots, one for each congressional district and each cited on its race, and every one shows the same names, in the same order, as the State Board’s list.
  • District 11: the general-election list shows the Republican candidate as Jennifer Capps Balkcom, with a filing date of August 11, 2026, months after the December 2025 filing period. The State Board’s March 3, 2026 primary list showed Chuck Edwards among the Republican candidates, and he is not on the general-election list. The lists do not say why, and we did not find a State Board notice explaining the change.
  • The list does not mark incumbents, so we do not mark any candidate here as the incumbent.
  • North Carolina has no governor race in 2026, and the list shows no special election for a U.S. Senate or U.S. House seat on November 3, 2026.