- Lead
- 6,524
- Total
- 56,126
- vs nation
- R+10.2
North Carolina 26th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,277
- Total
- 48,770
- vs nation
- R+19.4
- Lead
- 8,387
- Total
- 35,746
- vs nation
- R+25.6
- Lead
- 6,583
- Total
- 31,925
- vs nation
- R+24.5
- Lead
- 4,933
- Total
- 29,592
- vs nation
- R+23.9
- Lead
- 6,634
- Total
- 22,423
- vs nation
- R+27.1
- Lead
- 4,486
- Total
- 17,048
- vs nation
- R+26.8
- Lead
- 2,214
- Total
- 13,568
- vs nation
- R+24.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+11.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 89,9472024 5-year
- Population density
- 449 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 200 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $98,6122024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 64.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 16.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 13.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+50.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+54.0 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 161, GA · twin score 91.2
presidential history
Party record book
North Carolina 26th State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
75.1%
5,152 votes · D+50.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 73.6%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
76.1%
5,584 votes · R+54.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 64.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
24,400votes
43.5% of the vote · R+11.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 20,311 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
30,924votes
55.1% of the vote · R+11.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 27,588 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Adlai Stevenson1956
+55.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+40.2 · U.S. R+15.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +49.9 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
+30.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+54.0 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +27.1 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
The district recorded a Republican presidential margin of R+11.6 in 2024, compared with R+16.7 in 2008. The district had about 59,300 residents, 64.2% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 50.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 54.0 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.3 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 11.6 points.
A population of 89,947, a 64% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $98,612 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 161 and State House District 19.
The state-house districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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