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North Carolina House race, District 1

Don Davis holds this seat and is running to keep it against Laurie Buckhout.

The November ballot

Davis
$4.3M
Buckhout
$3.8M

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

General-election ballot as recorded August 27, 2026. Not a prediction.

The seat

Don Davis

Democrat · Holds the seat now

Discloses no individual stock trades.

Has not cosponsored a bill that would ban it

From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.

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How to vote in North Carolina

  • General electionNovember 3, 2026In 10 weeks

Register 25 days before, or same-day during the early-voting period in person.

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How they won the primary

Republican primary

The primary · 67,376 votes

  • Laurie BuckhoutWon39.5%26,624
  • Asa Buck34.5%23,227
  • Bobby Hanig16.2%10,924
  • Eric Rouse5.4%3,626
  • Ashley-Nicole Russell4.4%2,975

Primary results as recorded August 27, 2026, in the canvass's own published order. Source: the state's canvass, via Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). A primary result is a filed fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.

The money on this race

Raised by candidates
$13M
Outside money
$1M

Outside money, for and against

Supporting Davis$120K
Opposing Davis-
Supporting Buckhout$829K
Opposing Buckhout$42K

Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing.

Where each candidate's money comes from

9%$368KSmall donors$83K2%
43%$1.8MLarge donors$474K12%
36%$1.5MPACs$347K9%
--Self-funding$2.4M63%
13%$546KOther$482K13%

Small donors give under $200; PACs are political action committees. Shares of each candidate's own receipts on file with the FEC. Outside money is not part of these figures.

Who is spending on this race

The 8 groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.

1 to 5 of 8 groups

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.

Not on the November ballot

6 filed

Primary candidates who did not advance, committees still on file, and candidacies that ended. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.

The district

Census context
People
748K
Median household income
$56K
Unemployment
6.3%
Living below the poverty line
17.6%
Without health insurance
10.8%

U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate.

How this seat voted last time

D+1.7 in 2024

  • Donald G. DavisWon49.5%
  • Laurie Buckhout47.8%

376,324 votes for candidates. The district's lines have changed since this result. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.

Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.

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Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain; money figures carry their own coverage dates. Dataset built 2026-08-27. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.