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North Carolina House race, District 4

Valerie Foushee holds this seat and is running to keep it against Max Ganorkar.

The November ballot

Foushee
$912K
Ganorkar
$12K

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

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

The seat

Valerie Foushee

Democrat · Holds the seat now

Discloses no individual stock trades.

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

Democratic primary

The primary · 125,655 votes

  • Valerie FousheeWon49.2%61,776
  • Nida Allam48.2%60,605
  • Mary Patterson2.6%3,274

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

The money on this race

Raised by candidates
$2M
Outside money
$4.5M

Outside money, for and against

Supporting Foushee$2.4M
Opposing Foushee$242K
Supporting Ganorkar-
Opposing Ganorkar-

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

Where each candidate's money comes from

9%$86KSmall donors$1.1K9%
35%$321KLarge donors$5.2K43%
54%$490KPACs$1K8%
<1%$6KParty--
--Self-funding$4.6K38%
<1%$8.6KOther$103<1%

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

1 to 5 of 10 groups

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

Not on the November ballot

3 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.

How this seat voted last time

D+46 in 2024

  • Valerie P. FousheeWon71.8%
  • Eric Blankenburg26.1%

428,780 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.

The district

Census context
People
770K
Median household income
$103K
Unemployment
3.7%
Living below the poverty line
9.1%
Without health insurance
7.4%

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

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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.