- Lead
- 27,864
- Total
- 127,424
- vs nation
- R+20.4
North Carolina 26th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 26,740
- Total
- 120,387
- vs nation
- R+26.7
- Lead
- 27,578
- Total
- 102,090
- vs nation
- R+29.1
- Lead
- 26,642
- Total
- 102,310
- vs nation
- R+29.9
- Lead
- 22,353
- Total
- 98,551
- vs nation
- R+30.0
- Lead
- 30,475
- Total
- 88,228
- vs nation
- R+32.1
- Lead
- 25,197
- Total
- 75,566
- vs nation
- R+33.9
- Lead
- 17,415
- Total
- 66,030
- vs nation
- R+34.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+21.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 211,8012024 5-year
- Population density
- 218 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 973 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $73,9202024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 67.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 18.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+42.7 in 1940MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+59.6 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 16, GA · twin score 91.3
presidential history
Party record book
North Carolina 26th State Senate 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. Roosevelt1940
71.3%
15,100 votes · D+42.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 71.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
79.2%
37,181 votes · R+59.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 72.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
48,995votes
38.5% of the vote · R+21.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 46,076 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
76,859votes
60.3% of the vote · R+21.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 72,816 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1940
+32.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+42.7 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +29.7 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
+36.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+59.6 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · +35.4 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+21.8 in 2024, compared with R+22.7 in 2008. The district had about 436,000 residents, 52.9% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 42.7 points in 1940 and a Republican high of 59.6 points in 1972. The 2024 margin was 21.9 points.
A population of 211,801, a 68% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $73,920 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 16 and State Senate District 18.
The state-senate 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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North Carolina 26th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/37026/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.