Cary: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (North Carolina, open Tillis seat); U.S. Representatives for NC-2, NC-4, NC-9 and NC-13; NC Senate and NC House seats (town hall: SD-16, HD-11); NC Supreme Court and Court of Appeals seats; Wake County (and Chatham County for the western edge) commissioners, sheriff, clerk, district attorney and judicial seats. No Town of Cary contest (odd-year elections; next 2027). No Governor race (next 2028)..

Holding office16

the sitting council

On the ballot20

6 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Cary is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): North Carolina's 2nd congressional district (Cary Town Hall, 35.78892, -78.78112); the town spans NC-2, NC-4, NC-9 and NC-13 (120th Congress map) — Deborah K. Ross (Democratic)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Harold Weinbrecht, Jr. Elected unofficial	Mayor	Independent		NC State Board of Elections

Council Member

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Bella Huang Elected unofficial	Council Member	Independent	District C	NC State Board of Elections
Brittany Richards Elected unofficial	Council Member	Independent	District A	NC State Board of Elections
Carissa Johnson Elected unofficial	Council Member	Independent	At-Large	NC State Board of Elections
Lori Bush Elected unofficial	Council Member	Independent	At-Large	NC State Board of Elections
Michelle Craig Elected unofficial	Council Member	Independent	District B	NC State Board of Elections
Sarika Bansal Elected unofficial	Council Member	Independent	District D	NC State Board of Elections

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Josh Stein Elected	Governor	Democratic		Office of the Governor of North Carolina (home page names "Governor Josh Stein")

State Representative — HD-11

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Allison A. Dahle Elected unofficial	State Representative → Running	Democratic		NC State Board of Elections
Matthew Kordon	State Representative Running	Libertarian		NC State Board of Elections

State Senator — SD-16

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Gale Adcock Elected unofficial	State Senator → Running	Democratic	NC State Board of Elections
Jonathan D. Miller	State Senator Running	Libertarian	NC State Board of Elections
Philip Hensley	State Senator Running	Republican	NC State Board of Elections

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Ted Budd Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican	@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov not used
Thom Tillis Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican	@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov not used
Michael Dublin	U.S. Senator Running	Green	NC State Board of Elections
Michael Whatley	U.S. Senator Running	Republican	NC State Board of Elections
Roy Cooper	U.S. Senator Running	Democratic	NC State Board of Elections
Shannon W. Bray	U.S. Senator Running	Libertarian	NC State Board of Elections

U.S. Representative — NC-2

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Deborah K. Ross Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic	U.S. House of Representatives
Eugene F. Douglass	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	NC State Board of Elections
Matthew Laszacs	U.S. Representative Running	Libertarian	NC State Board of Elections

U.S. Representative — NC-4

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Valerie P. Foushee Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic	U.S. House of Representatives
Guy Meilleur	U.S. Representative Running	Libertarian	NC State Board of Elections
Mahesh (Max) Ganorkar	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	NC State Board of Elections

U.S. Representative — NC-9

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Richard Hudson Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican		U.S. House of Representatives
Richard N. Ojeda II	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic		NC State Board of Elections

U.S. Representative — NC-13

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Brad Knott Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican	U.S. House of Representatives
Paul Barringer	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	NC State Board of Elections
Steven Swinton	U.S. Representative Running	Libertarian	NC State Board of Elections

Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

Municipal: www.townofcary.org 301-redirects to www.carync.gov, which returns an Akamai 'Access Denied' 403 even for robots.txt; not bypassed, no other User-Agent tried. www.wake.gov not fetched by instruction. The Mayor and six Council Members are therefore taken from NCSBE official precinct results and marked "unofficial": true: 2023-10-10 (Mayor Harold Weinbrecht, Jr.; At-Large Lori Bush; District B Michelle Craig), 2023-11-07 runoff (District D Sarika Bansal over Rachel Jordan, 2,760 to 2,700) and 2025-11-04 (At-Large Carissa Johnson; District A Brittany Richards, who unseated Jennifer Robinson; District C Bella Huang). Council shape (Mayor + 2 At-Large + Districts A-D) is read from the contests on those results. Any vacancy or appointment since an election would not show here.
Town of Cary election: the NCSBE 2026 all-contest general list has no 'TOWN OF CARY' contest (0 matches). Cary elects in odd years on a four-year staggered cycle (Mayor, one At-Large, B and D in 2023; the other At-Large, A and C in 2025). Next municipal election: November 2027 (Mayor, At-Large, Districts B and D), inferred from that stagger; the exact date was not read on an official page (Town site blocked). Cary held October elections with a November runoff in 2023 and a November election in 2025.
Congressional districts covering the town: an 18x18 grid over 35.67-35.88 N, 78.72-78.99 W was sent to the Census geocoder coordinates endpoint (324 points, 0 errors); 90 points fell inside 'Cary town': NC-2 (45), NC-4 (42), NC-9 (2, the Chatham County edge), NC-13 (1). A coarse grid (about 1.3 km spacing) can miss slivers. All four sitting members (house.gov directory, retrieved 2026-10-22; cross-checked with legislators-current.json) are on the 2026 general list for their seats.
State legislative districts by the same grid (2026 layers): Senate 17 (45), 16 (32), 13 (11), 20 (2); House 11 (31), 41 (28), 21 (16), 36 (10), 49 (3), 54 (2). Four senate and six house districts cover the town; only town hall's (SD-16, HD-11) are recorded as people, per the brief.
State officeholders: ncleg.gov not fetched (known Cloudflare block). Governor Josh Stein from governor.nc.gov (robots allows). SD-16 Gale Adcock (D; unopposed in 2024) and HD-11 Allison A. Dahle (D) from the NCSBE official 2024 general-election precinct results, marked "unofficial": true; both are on the 2026 list for their seats.
Candidates: NC State Board of Elections '2026 General Candidate List by Contest - Federal and State Only' and the all-contest version (PDFs, report time Oct 13, 2026 12:25 pm; header Election 11/03/2026). 'Name on Ballot' used as name; legal name in ballotName; party code in ballotParty. Addresses on the list (many of them Cary home addresses) were NOT copied. Write-ins and primary losers excluded. No contest in this record is unopposed.
U.S. Senate 2026 (open seat): Michael Whatley (REP), Roy Cooper (DEM), Shannon W. Bray (LIB), Michael Dublin (GRE). House: NC-2 Deborah K. Ross (D, inc.) vs Eugene F. Douglass (R), Matthew Laszacs (L); NC-4 Valerie P. Foushee (D, inc.) vs Mahesh (Max) Ganorkar (R), Guy Meilleur (L); NC-9 Richard Hudson (R, inc.) vs Richard N. Ojeda II (D); NC-13 Brad Knott (R, inc.) vs Paul Barringer (D), Steven Swinton (L). SD-16 Gale Adcock (D, inc.) vs Philip Hensley (R), Jonathan D. Miller (L). HD-11 Allison A. Dahle (D, inc.) vs Matthew Kordon (L).
Robots/terms: ncsbe.gov, house.gov and governor.nc.gov robots.txt allow (standard Drupal, no AI-agent lines); s3.amazonaws.com robots.txt returns AccessDenied (no file) and the dl.ncsbe.gov objects are NCSBE's public downloads; geocoding.geo.census.gov has no robots.txt (404); unitedstates.github.io has no robots.txt (404), data CC0. house.gov Terms of Use read before the member page: government-produced materials are not copyright protected. tigerweb.geo.census.gov returned an F5 'Request Rejected' page for robots.txt, so it was not used (the grid used the geocoder instead). The governor.nc.gov home page was opened before its linked nc.gov terms; those terms were not opened. Blocked, not bypassed: carync.gov (Akamai 403). Not fetched: www.wake.gov (instruction), ncleg.gov (known Cloudflare), senate.gov (known Akamai; senators from legislators-current.json). One User-Agent throughout: 'ResearchUpon-politics/1.0 (civic research; +https://researchupon.com)'. No photos linked. No addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. standsFor null for everyone. Wikipedia, Ballotpedia and news not used.

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-22. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.