Here’s Who Won in Wake County: 2026 General Election Results

state legislature

N.C. Senate District 13

Democratic Sen. Lisa Grafstein defeated Republican challenger Robert van Brederode, taking 61% of the vote. Grafstein is currently serving her second term representing the district that spans southern Wake County, including Fuquay-Varina. Before she ran for her legislative seat, the civil rights attorney worked as a lawyer at Disability Rights North Carolina. In the state senate Grafstein has supported Medicaid expansion, funding behavioral health programs, protecting abortion rights, and creating a nonpartisan redistricting commission.

Van Brederode is a tax lawyer from Fuquay-Varina. 

N.C. Senate District 14

Democratic Sen. Dan Blue defeated Republican challenger Angela McCarty, taking 82% of the vote. Blue is currently in his eighth term in the state Senate, following more than 20 years in the state House, in a district that covers east Raleigh and stretches north. Blue was the Senate minority leader for more than a decade and has been a supporter of independent redistricting, clean energy efforts, and Medicaid expansion. 

Angela McCarty is a Wake Forest resident who also challenged Blue for the seat in 2024.

N.C. Senate District 15

Democratic Sen. Jay Chaudhuri defeated Republican challenger David Bankert, taking 75% of the vote. In his fifth term representing the central Raleigh district in the state Senate, Chaudhuri was appointed Minority Whip in 2019, making him the second-highest-ranking Democrat. An attorney and former general counsel and policy adviser to then–state Treasurer Janet Cowell, and former Special Counsel to then–Attorney General Roy Cooper, Chaudhuri has opposed the federal government’s changes to SNAP benefits and sponsored bills to ban ghost guns and legalize medical marijuana. 

Bankert is from Raleigh and has run for the state Senate in 2022 and 2024. 

N.C. Senate District 16

Democratic Sen. Gale Adcock defeated Republican challenger Philip Hensley and Libertarian Jonathan Miller, taking 75% of the vote to Hensley’s 23% and Miller’s 2%. Adcock, a former nurse and Cary Town Council member, is in her second term in the state Senate following four terms in the state House. Her district covers Cary and parts of Raleigh. Adcock has sponsored bills to put nurses in schools, increase Medicaid reimbursements for private nursing services, and tighten protections around nicotine use.

Hensley owns a cigar store in Cary and ran unsuccessfully for the state House in 2024.

Miller, a Cary resident, was charged last month with communicating threats, resisting police officers, and going armed to the terror of the people after making troubling posts on social media. 

N.C. Senate District 17

Democratic Sen. Sydney Batch defeated Republican challenger Shirley Johnson and Libertarian Patrick Bowersox, taking 73% of the vote to Johnson’s 25% and Bowersox’s 2%. Batch, the Democratic Minority Leader, has represented the western Wake County district covering Apex and parts of Cary since 2021, following one term in the state House. She has sponsored legislation to expand parental leave and support mental health services in schools and supported bills to fund public schools and protect voting rights.

Cary resident Johnson, a first-time candidate, is the executive director of a child advocacy center.

Bowersox has challenged Batch for the Senate District 17 seat twice in the past, in 2022 and 2024. 

N.C. Senate District 18

Democratic Sen. Haseeb Fatmi defeated Republican challenger Chris Stock and Libertarian Brad Hessel, taking 55% of the vote to Stock’s 43% and Hessel’s 2%. Fatmi, who was elected Wake Forest Town Commissioner in 2024, was appointed to the Senate District 18 seat by Gov. Josh Stein in May following Sen. Terence Everitt’s resignation. A lawyer and adjunct professor, Fatmi says he’s focused on protecting natural areas such as Kerr Lake and bringing a new hospital to the district.

Stock, a lawyer from Wake Forest, is a former aide to state Sen. Brent Jackson.

Hessel, a Raleigh resident, formerly served as treasurer of the Wake County Libertarian Party and director of the state Libertarian Party. He has run unsuccessfully for state Senate three times since 2016.

N.C. House District 11

Democratic Rep. Alison Dahle defeated Libertarian candidate Matthew Kordon, taking 81% of the vote. Dahle will serve her fifth term in the N.C. House representing Cary and western Wake County. In the House, Dahle has supported legislation to require voting sites to show information about the voting process and voters’ rights. 

Kordon ran for the House District 11 seat in 2024, placing third.

N.C. House District 21

Democratic Rep. Ya Liu defeated Republican candidate Bryson Johnson, taking 71% of the vote. Liu has represented her western Wake County district, which covers parts of Cary and Apex, since 2023. She is currently the House Democratic Whip and formerly served on the Cary Town Council for four years. 

Johnson is a healthcare cybersecurity engineer and small-business owner from Apex. 

N.C. House District 33

Democratic Rep. Monika Johnson-Hostler defeated Republican candidate Matthew Orr, taking 79% of the vote. In her first term representing the district, which covers swaths of southern and western Wake County including Garner, Johnson-Hostler introduced bills to exempt menstrual products from sales tax, fund grants for contraceptive access in underserved communities, and create resources for patients with high-risk pregnancies. Johsnon-Hostler is the executive director of the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault. She also served on the Wake County school board for 11 years.

Orr is a freelance digital marketing consultant from Garner. 

N.C. House District 34

Democratic Rep. Tim Longest defeated Libertarian candidate Ed George, taking 82% of the vote. Longest is currently serving his second term in the district covering northeast Raleigh. A former clerk on both the North Carolina Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, Longest has introduced bills aimed at ending predatory towing, preventing rent fixing, and reenacting the earned income tax credit. 

George is a small-business owner from Raleigh who ran for the seat in 2024, winning 24% of the vote.

N.C. House District 35

Democratic newcomer Evonne Hopkins defeated Republican Rep. Mike Schietzelt, taking 55% of the vote. Hopkins, a family law attorney from Wake Forest, ran against Schietzelt in 2024, when the district leaned more Republican. This year, the district was considered a true toss-up. Hopkins owns and operates the Raleigh Law Center. She also volunteers with The Child’s Advocate to represent children in high-conflict custody cases, and received Legal Aid of North Carolina’s Pro Bono Hero Award in 2023. 

Schietzelt, who is serving his first term in the General Assembly, is a litigation attorney. He defeated Hopkins by 1,820 votes in 2024. 

N.C. House District 36

Democratic Rep. Julie von Haefen defeated Republican candidate Mary Insprucker, taking 63% of the vote. Von Haefen is currently serving a fourth term in her Wake County district that covers much of southwestern Wake County, including Holly Springs and part of Apex. She is a substitute teacher at Wake County Public Schools and PTA leader. In the House, she has introduced bills to pay teachers fairly and restrict funds from going to crisis pregnancy centers. 

Insprucker has worked as a consultant to the town of Cary as well as a substitute teacher. She ran unsuccessfully for Cary Town Council in 2022.

N.C. House District 37

Democratic newcomer Winn Decker defeated Republican Rep. Erin Paré, taking 55% of the vote. Decker, an education and nonprofit consultant from Fuquay-Varina, worked as an education policy analyst for The Hunt Institute and a senior manager at Common App. Much of his platform centered on education.

Paré is from Holly Springs and served three terms in the state House where she was considered a rising talent in the Republican caucus. She and her husband own a sports equipment store and Paré is the founder and director of a local nonprofit supporting youth in music.

N.C. House District 38

Democratic Rep. Abe Jones ran unopposed for his fourth term in the central Raleigh and eastern Wake County House district and won 27,817 votes. An attorney and former Wake County Commissioner and Superior Court Judge, Jones has introduced bills around safe firearm storage, tax relief for prescription drugs, and youth mentoring. 

N.C. House District 39

Democratic Rep. James A. Roberson defeated Republican candidate Jorge Cordova and Libertarian Wayne Cockrell, taking 73% of the vote to Cordova’s 25% and Cockrell’s 2%. Roberson, a former Knightdale mayor and town council member, has represented his eastern Wake County district for three terms in the state House after he was appointed to his seat in 2021. Roberson was a former dean at Wake Tech and has sponsored bills to support disabled veterans and create a grant program to encourage students to participate in Science Olympiad.

Cordova is from Wendell and owns a tile installation business. Last year, he ran unsuccessfully for Wendell’s town Board of Commissioners.

Cockrell is a retired automation engineer from Knightdale.

N.C. House District 40

Democratic Rep. Phil Rubin defeated Libertarian candidate Lucas Everett Jones, taking 81% of the vote. Rubin is completing his first term in office after he was appointed in January 2025 to Rep. Joe John’s longtime seat in the North Raleigh district following John’s death. Rubin is a former assistant U.S. attorney and special deputy attorney general for North Carolina. He introduced bills to protect health information, promote competitive teacher pay, and promote safe gun ownership.

Jones is a first-time candidate from Raleigh and an aspiring video game designer. 

N.C. House District 41

Democratic Rep. Maria Cervania defeated Republican candidate Bruce Forster, taking 76% of the vote. Cervania is currently serving her second term representing the northwestern Wake County district covering Morrisville and parts of Cary. A former Wake County Commissioner, the Cary resident served two terms before she was elected to the House. An epidemiologist and biostatistician, she has sponsored bills to curtail corporate political spending and limit the use of AI in healthcare billing.

Forster is from Cary and owns a window-and-siding business. 

N.C. House District 49

Democratic Rep. Cynthia Ball defeated Republican Daran Thomas, taking 79% of the vote. Ball is currently serving her fifth term representing the western Wake County district, which includes parts of Raleigh and Cary. A professional mediator, Ball is the Deputy Leader of the House Democrats. She has sponsored bills to expand education funding and protect turtles. 

Thomas is a small-business owner and first-time candidate from Raleigh. 

N.C. House District 66

Democratic Rep. Sarah Crawford ran unopposed for her third term in the N.C. House after previously serving one term in the state Senate. She received 29,620 votes and her district covers northeastern Wake County. As CEO of the Tammy Lynn Center, Crawford has worked on legislation around workers’ safety, healthcare security, and prescription drug pricing.

board of education

These races are officially nonpartisan but all featured a Republican challenging at least one Democrat. 

District 1

Jasmine Zavala, a Democrat, defeated Bonnie Greaves and Sebrina Pearce with 49% of the vote. Zavala will succeed incumbent Republican Cheryl Caulfield, who did not seek reelection for a second term.

Zavala is a small-business owner, community volunteer, and former teacher who was endorsed by the Wake NCAE.

Greaves is a Republican former special education teacher and Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) parent who said improving the district’s special education programs was her top priority.

Pearce is a Democratic first-time candidate whose children attended Wake public schools.

District 1 covers Wake Forest, Rolesville, Knightdale, Zebulon, and Wendell.

District 2

Incumbent Christina Gordon defeated Ann Schubarg with 69% of the vote.

Gordon, a Democrat, was appointed to the District 2 seat in early 2025 to fill a vacancy. She is a former teacher who now works for the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) as a professional learning specialist. She also has children in Wake County public schools. 

Ann Schubarg, a Republican, is a first-time candidate, WCPSS substitute teacher, and Harris Teeter personal shopper. 

District 2 covers Fuquay-Varina, Garner, and Southeast Raleigh.

District 7

Democrat Maddie Segal was elected to the District 7 seat with 48% of the vote. She will replace incumbent Chris Heagarty, who decided not to seek reelection for a third term. Segal is a WCPSS parent with a professional background in food policy and nonprofit work. The district covers parts of Cary, Morrisville, and Brier Creek. 

Democrat Amita Gupta received 30.5% of the vote. 

Republican Jacob Arthur received 21% of the vote, faring slightly worse than in his 2022 bid for this seat, which was also a three-way race.

District 7 covers northwestern Wake County, including portions of Raleigh, Cary, and Morrisville. 

District 9

Democratic incumbent Tyler Swanson soundly defeated his opponents Cheryl Alexis and Brian Olson to win a second term. A former special education teacher, Swanson currently serves as the board’s youngest-ever chair. He received 59% of the vote. District 9 covers parts of Cary and Morrisville.

Alexis is a Republican and Olson is a Democrat. Both were first-time candidates for this office.

District 9 covers western Wake County, including much of Cary and portions of Apex and Morrisville. 

raleigh city council & mayor

Mayor

Incumbent mayor Janet Cowell, a Democrat, coasted to victory over Ashleigh Heath Armstrong with 82% of the vote. A former former city councilor, state senator, state treasurer, and Dix Park Conservancy CEO, Cowell ran on her record of leading the city through two years of rising housing supply and falling crime rates.

Armstrong, who is unaffiliated, ran a low-key campaign: She appeared at some candidate forums but did not fundraise more than $1,000 and did not create a campaign website.

Cowell, along with the winners in City Council Districts A and B and the top vote-getter in the race for two at-large seats, will serve a four-year term. The remaining council seats will transition to four-year terms in 2028.

At-Large

Incumbent Stormie Forte, a Democrat, was the top vote-getter and will serve a four-year term. Forte received 112,034 votes, or 37%. She is an attorney and human resources director who was appointed to the District D council seat in 2020 and then elected at-large for the first time in 2022. Her priorities include addressing homelessness, hiring more police and firefighters, and bringing a Major League Baseball expansion team to Raleigh.

Newcomer Sana Siddiqui, also a Democrat, placed second with 97,653 votes, or 32.5%. She is an engineer and small-business owner who campaigned on growing Raleigh’s affordable housing supply and improving the city’s community engagement. She will serve a two-year term.

Clark Rinehart and Joshua Bradley placed third and fourth with 45,102 votes (15%) and 43,351 votes (14%) respectively.

District A

Democrat Mitchell Silver won a second term with 60% of the vote, defeating Republican challenger Whitney Hill. Silver is a former Raleigh planning director who helped craft Raleigh’s 2030 Comprehensive Plan, the guiding document for the city’s growth and development. He also served as New York City’s Parks Commissioner. Silver supports streamlining the housing approval process, increasing housing of all types, and preserving existing affordable housing. Hill, who previously sought this seat in 2024, pitched himself to voters as someone who would be less friendly to developers than Silver, but that message fell flat. 

District B

Megan Patton ran unopposed for a third term representing District B. Patton is a Democrat who works in customer service for an e-commerce company and is a former teacher. Since joining the council she’s focused on transit, affordable housing, and sustainability.

District C

Corey Branch won a sixth term with 72% of the vote, defeating challenger Jared Ollison. Branch, an associate director at an IT company, has represented the southeast Raleigh district since 2015. In that time, he helped get more affordable housing development approved in his district than any other, and was instrumental in securing a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor on New Bern Avenue. Ollison is a retired former director of detention services for the Wake County Sheriff’s Office who ran for this seat once before in 2024. He and Branch are both Democrats.

District D

Jane Harrison won a third term with 81% of the vote, defeating challenger Jevon Smith. Harrison is a faculty member at NC State University, where she specializes in environmental economics and natural resource management—skills she’s applied as a city council member when advocating for parks, sound city infrastructure, and climate solutions. She currently serves as the council’s mayor pro tem, running meetings if the mayor is absent. Smith is a first-time candidate who leads the Research Computing Division in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at NC State. He and Harrison are both Democrats.

District E

Democrat Christina Jones won a third term with 70% of the vote, defeating Republican challenger Marc Scruggs. Jones is an advocate of community engagement who led the charge to restore Raleigh’s Citizen Advisory Councils after they were disbanded. She supports adding more affordable housing in her district and around Raleigh, and tends to be skeptical of large-scale development projects that don’t have an affordable component. 

Scruggs is a former funeral director who served on the Raleigh City Council from 1995 to 1999.

board of county commissioners

District 2

In one of the closer county commission races, sitting County Commissioner Safiyah Jackson, a Democrat, defeated her Republican challenger John Adcock by 16 percentage points.

District 2 spans southern Wake County, including the fast-growing towns of Holly Springs and Fuquay-Varina. Historically Wake’s reddest district, it’s shifted to the left in recent years; both town councils now boast Democratic majorities. Jackson’s victory is part of a Democratic shutout in southern Wake this year, across local and state races.

Jackson was appointed to the board of commissioners in early 2025 to fill a vacant seat, and was named board vice chair later that year. This will be her first full, elected term. She has a background in early childhood psychology and business and has focused on affordable housing and economic development in her first year as a commissioner.

Adcock is a commercial real estate lawyer in Fuquay-Varina.

District 3

Incumbent Democrat Cheryl Stallings ran unopposed for a second term and received 58,495 votes. Her district covers parts of Cary, Apex, and Morrisville. Stallings is a psychologist and former Apex Town Council member who chairs the commission’s Health and Human Services Committee and is a member of its Education Committee. 

District 7

Incumbent Democrat Vickie Adamson ran unopposed for a fourth term representing this district, which spans a wedge of western Wake County from northwest Raleigh to Morrisville. She received 55,646 votes. A retired accountant and business analyst, Adamson has been a vocal proponent of education and affordable housing funding on the county commission.

At-Large

Democrats Mona Singh and Christine Kushner easily defeated Republicans Kyle Stogoski and Gary Hartong to win two new at-large seats on the board of county commissioners.

Singh was the top vote-getter with 326,008 votes (37%), so she will serve a four-year term. She is a technology consultant and community volunteer who pitched herself to voters as someone who will help the county use smart technology to improve its financial transparency, community services, and environmental protection.

Kushner placed second with 298,865 votes (34%) and will serve a two-year term. She is a former healthcare policy analyst, nonprofit administrator, and Wake County school board member who ran with public education funding as the primary focus of her campaign.

Stogoski, who works at a pet hospital, and Hartong, an engineering executive, received 134,748 votes (15%) and 126,279 votes (14%) , respectively.

sheriff

Democratic incumbent sheriff Willie Rowe secured a second term in office, defeating Republican challenger Kenny Blackwell with 71% of the vote. Rowe worked for 28 years in the Wake County Sheriff’s Office before retiring in 2013. The Raleigh native also served in the U.S. Army for eight years before joining the sheriff’s office.

Blackwell is a former Wake County deputy and currently works as an investigator with the State Capitol Police. 

clerk

Incumbent Democrat Claudia Croom defeated Republican candidate Joe Teague Jr., taking 70% of the vote. Croom, a Raleigh resident, was appointed clerk of court by Judge Paul Ridgeway in January 2026, and will begin her first full term in the office. Before the appointment, Croom served for more than 17 years as a civil magistrate presiding over small claims cases and spent a decade before that in private practice handling criminal defense, disability, personal injury, and DMV cases. 

Raleigh resident Joe Teague Jr. ran for clerk of court once before, in 2014

judges

Superior Court 

District 10B Seat 1

Judge Vince Rozier Jr. ran unopposed for the seat. Rozier was appointed to the Superior Court bench in 2017 and elected to his first full term in 2018. Before that, he served as a district court judge for about 10 years and an assistant district attorney for four years, both in Wake County. Rozier, a Raleigh resident, earned a law degree from North Carolina Central University.

District 10D Seat 1

Judge Keith Gregory ran unopposed for the seat. First appointed, then elected, to the Superior Court bench in 2018 after eight years as a district court judge, Gregory worked in private practice for 10 years. He served as Wake County Fire Commissioner and as a Wake County assistant district attorney for four years. Gregory, a Cary resident, has held leadership positions with the Wake County Bar Association and the North Carolina Association of District Court Judges. He earned a law degree from North Carolina Central University and, more recently, a master’s in Judicial Studies from Duke University. 

District Court 

District 10A Seat 1

Judge Rashad Hauter ran unopposed for his second full term. He was appointed to the bench in 2021 after working previously as an immigration attorney and criminal defense attorney in the Wake County District Attorney’s Office. The Wake Forest resident earned a law degree from Campbell University.

District 10B Seat 1

Judge David K. Baker ran unopposed for reelection to a second full term. Baker was appointed to the bench in 2019 after working for Legal Aid and in private practice focused on criminal defense and personal injury law. 

District 10D Seat 1

Judge Margaret Eagles ran unopposed for reelection to a fifth term. Eagles has served as a district court judge since 2009. She was appointed Wake County’s chief district court judge in 2024. The Raleigh resident served as a civil litigation attorney, an assistant attorney general, and a judicial clerk before becoming a judge. She has held leadership positions with the Wake County Domestic Violence Task Force and the Wake County Bar Association.

District 10D Seat 2

Amalia Mercedes Restucha, a Democrat, defeated incumbent Judge J. Brian Ratledge, a Republican, winning 65% of the vote. Since 2017, Restucha has been an assistant attorney general with the N.C. Department of Justice, focusing on consumer protection, policy, and education. She was previously a staff attorney with Disability Rights NC and spent several years in private practice. The Raleigh native earned her law degree from North Carolina Central University. She served on the N.C. State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for nine years and has also been a member of the Raleigh Human Relations Commission. 

Judge Ratledge was first elected to the district court bench in 2018. In 2021, he was named the lead family court judge for Wake County, primarily presiding over family court cases, as well as some criminal matters. 

District 10D Seat 3

Judge Kevin Boxberger ran unopposed for reelection and will serve his first full term after he was appointed to the district court bench in 2024. Boxberger worked as a regional defender for North Carolina Indigent Defense Services for nearly two years before becoming a judge, overseeing the court-appointed lawyer system in Wake and six other counties. He also worked as a criminal defense attorney and, before earning his law degree from North Carolina Central University, as a City of Raleigh firefighter. 

District 10E Seat 1

Judge Sam Hamadani ran unopposed for a third full term. She was appointed to the bench in 2017. Hamadani earned a law degree from the University of North Carolina and worked as an assistant public defender in Wake County for six years. The Raleigh resident recently received a grant to make trauma-informed updates to her courtroom.

District 10E Seat 2

Judge Louis Meyer ran unopposed for a fourth full term. He was first appointed to the district court bench in 2012, won election narrowly in 2014, and has run unopposed in every election since. Meyer worked as a civil litigation attorney for 27 years before becoming a judge. The Raleigh resident earned a law degree from Wake Forest University.

District 10F Seat 1

Judge Chris Brooks ran unopposed for election to his first full term. Brooks was appointed to his seat in 2025 after serving for 26 years as a special deputy attorney general, most recently representing the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles. The Apex resident earned his law degree from Campbell University and ran unsuccessfully for district court judge in 2022. 

soil and water

Samantha Krop and CeCe Grant, both Democrats, won the most votes for two seats on the (officially nonpartisan) Wake County Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors, earning 31% and 26% of the vote, respectively. They defeated incumbent Beth Pugh, a Republican, Republican Jim White, Libertarian Brian Lewis, and Terence Thomas, an unaffiliated candidate.

Krop has worked in land and water conservation for a decade. Currently she is the director of advocacy for Sound Rivers, a nonprofit that works to protect the health of North Carolina river basins, and the Neuse Riverkeeper, a role in which she advocates for the river and its tributaries. She holds a master’s degree in education and taught environmental justice at the University of Oregon. She previously worked as the coordinator for a conservation coalition in Oregon and has served on Raleigh’s Stormwater Management Advisory Commission. 

Grant previously worked for the Sierra Club for close to two years directing a campaign to decarbonize the industrial sector; advocated for climate, criminal justice, and economic policy change while working at Dream Corps for two years; and organized at the state and federal levels for transit projects throughout four years. She has also served as a legislative assistant in Congress and in voter advocacy roles and currently serves on the Raleigh Transit Authority.

Farrell was elected to the board in 2022 and currently serves as its chair. A Cary resident, she has worked for the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services since 2010, currently as an agricultural programs specialist. 

Apex resident White is president of Enseso4Food, a food traceability software platform.

Thomas is a life coach who blends spiritual, physical, and financial coaching, as well as a real estate broker and piano instructor from Raleigh.

Lewis, along with his family, runs a small farm in Wake County and is a volunteer with environmental groups Greenpeace and the Sierra Club.

district attorney

Democrat Wiley Nickel ran unopposed on Tuesday for outgoing district attorney Lorrin Freeman’s seat. He earned 389,771 votes. Nickel, a Cary resident and former Congressman and state Senator, won nearly 50% of the vote in a three-way Democratic primary in March. A former criminal defense attorney with a law degree from Pepperdine University, Nickel says he will focus on prosecuting violent crime and property, as well as political corruption, while deprioritizing marijuana arrests.

u.s. house

Incumbent Congresswoman Deborah Ross sailed to reelection for a fourth term, winning 75% of the vote over challengers for the Wake County–based seat, Republican Eugene Douglass (23%) and Libertarian Matthew Laszacs (1%). Brian McGinnis also ran for the seat as an independent, write-in candidate.

Ross, a Raleigh resident, serves as chief deputy whip for House Democratic leadership, working to keep the party together on key votes. She was uncontested in the March primary.

Ross was the state director of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina before running for the state House, where she served from 2003 to 2013. In Congress, she has worked to lower the cost of prescription drugs and safeguard Social Security benefits, and has advocated for racial justice and abortion access. Ross usually votes with her party but has supported bipartisan measures, including a bill establishing a committee to examine threats the Chinese Communist Party may pose to the U.S. economy. 

Douglass is an educational consultant from Raleigh. He ran for the seat in 2024 but lost in the Republican primary. 

Laszacs is an executive at an IT services company. This was his first run for Congress, but he has run for state legislative seats in 2022 and 2024.