Jennifer Capps Balkcom

§1On the ballot

Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.

§2Who they are

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✎ Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Her campaign website says Jennifer Balkcom started in banking and finance in 1998 and for more than 25 years has worked with families and small businesses across Western North Carolina, and says she is now both a mortgage loan officer and a small-business woman.⁴ It says she holds an associate degree from Blue Ridge Community College in business administration with banking and finance, and has served on community and nonprofit boards, among them the Henderson County Education Foundation.⁴ It says she is a member of the North Carolina House for Henderson County, where she has worked on issues involving education, farmers and small businesses as well as families and Western North Carolina.⁴ The North Carolina General Assembly's member page lists her as the Republican representing House District 117 (Henderson County), in her second term, with the occupation of mortgage loan officer.⁵

Why they say they're running

Her campaign website's voting page says she has a record of working for Western North Carolina and will do the same for voters in Washington as she did in Raleigh.⁶

Websites and accounts

• Campaign websitejenniferbalkcom.com^4,7

§3Money

Why this matters: Campaigns report where their money comes from and how much they have left. Outside groups that spend on their own, without coordinating with the campaign, report that too.

Reported to the Federal Election Commission for the 2025–2026 election cycle, through October 14, 2026.⁸

Where the money came from

Outside spending

Groups spending independently reported $900,021 supporting and $7,785,619 opposing Jennifer Capps Balkcom this cycle, primary and general combined, in the 24- and 48-hour reports the law requires for larger expenditures, filed through October 26, 2026.⁹

Smaller expenditures that appear only on a group's regular monthly or quarterly report aren't in these totals, so the full amounts can be somewhat higher. When a group amends a report, only its latest version is counted.