Charlotte: 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-8, NC-12 and NC-14; NC Senate and NC House seats (CMGC: SD-41, HD-102); NC Supreme Court and Court of Appeals seats; Mecklenburg County commissioners, sheriff, clerk of superior court, district attorney and judicial seats. No Governor race (next 2028) and no City of Charlotte offices on this ballot..

Holding office20

the sitting council

On the ballot14

5 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): North Carolina's 12th congressional district (CMGC, 600 E 4th St); the city spans NC-12, NC-14 and NC-8 (same on the 119th and 120th maps) — Alma S. Adams (Democratic)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Rob Harrington Elected	Mayor	Democratic		City of Charlotte

Council Member

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Danté Anderson Elected	Council Member	Democratic	District 1	City of Charlotte
Dimple Ajmera Elected	Council Member	Democratic	At-Large	City of Charlotte
Edmund H. Driggs Elected	Council Member	Republican	District 7	City of Charlotte
James Mitchell Jr. Elected	Council Member	Democratic	At-Large	City of Charlotte
JD Mazuera Arias Elected	Council Member	Democratic	District 5	City of Charlotte
Joi Mayo Elected	Council Member	Democratic	District 3	City of Charlotte
Kimberly Owens Elected	Council Member	Republican	District 6	City of Charlotte
LaWana Mayfield Elected	Council Member	Democratic	At-Large	City of Charlotte
Malcolm Graham Elected	Council Member	Democratic	District 2	City of Charlotte
Reneé Johnson Elected	Council Member	Democratic	District 4	City of Charlotte
Victoria Watlington Elected	Council Member	Democratic	At-Large	City of Charlotte

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Josh Stein Elected unofficial	Governor	Democratic		NC State Board of Elections

State Representative — HD-102

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Becky Carney Elected acclaimed unofficial	State Representative → Running	Democratic		NC State Board of Elections

State Senator — SD-41

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Caleb Theodros Elected unofficial	State Senator → Running	Democratic		NC State Board of Elections
Kevin Gray	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 returned HTTP 403
Thom Tillis Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican	@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov returned HTTP 403
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-8

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Mark Harris Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican	U.S. House of Representatives
Bo Whitehead	U.S. Representative Running	Green	NC State Board of Elections
Colby Watson	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	NC State Board of Elections

U.S. Representative — NC-12

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Alma S. Adams Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		U.S. House of Representatives
Jack Codiga	U.S. Representative Running	Republican		NC State Board of Elections

U.S. Representative — NC-14

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Tim Moore Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican		U.S. House of Representatives
Lakesha Womack	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic		NC State Board of Elections

Notes on this record

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

Municipal: Mayor and 11 Council Members (4 at-large, 7 districts) from https://www.charlottenc.gov/City-Government/Leadership/City-Council, retrieved 2026-10-15 (robots.txt allows the council pages). Party, election dates and term ends from the City's 'City Council History 1991-2027' PDF on the same site: Charlotte municipal elections are partisan. Mayor Vi Lyles resigned effective 2026-06-30; Robert (Rob) Harrington (D) was elected by City Council to finish her term (ends 2027-12-06). Mayor Pro Tem: James Mitchell Jr. Charlotte is council-manager: City Manager, City Attorney and City Clerk are appointed, so there is no other city-wide elected office. Names as the council page prints them; the history PDF spells some differently (Ed Driggs, Reneé Perkins Johnson, Juan Diego Mazuera Arias).
City of Charlotte elections: every two years in odd years (council page: 'Elections for the City Council are held every two years'). Current terms began 2025-12-01 and end 2027-12-06. Next municipal general election: November 2, 2027 (the Tuesday after the first Monday in November 2027; NCSBE says most NC municipal elections are in odd-numbered years). The 2027 date itself is not yet published on an official calendar this client could read; Mecklenburg County Board of Elections (mecknc.gov, apps.meckboe.org) is behind Cloudflare. The NCSBE 2026 all-contest list for Mecklenburg has no City of Charlotte contest.
Congressional districts covering the city: Census TIGERweb polygon for Charlotte city (place 3712000) sampled on a 160x160 grid (14,079 points inside the city) against the 120th (layer 0) and 119th (layer 4) Congress districts — identical here: NC-12 (10,996 points), NC-14 (1,984), NC-8 (1,099). All three sitting members are listed and all three are on the 2026 general list for their seats. Slivers under ~0.2 km could be missed. CMGC is NC-12, SD-41, HD-102 in the Census geocoder (2026 state legislative layers).
State legislative districts covering the city by the same grid: Senate 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 (plus single-point slivers of 34 and 35); House 88, 92, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 112 (plus single-point slivers of 68 and 82). Only CMGC's districts are recorded as people, per the brief.
Sitting U.S. Representatives from https://www.house.gov/representatives (North Carolina table), retrieved 2026-10-15. U.S. Senators (Thom Tillis, Ted Budd, both Republican): senate.gov returns HTTP 403 — taken from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json (Tillis term ends 2027-01-03, Budd 2029-01-03). No federal photos linked.
State officeholders: ncleg.gov (General Assembly) returned a Cloudflare 'Sorry, you have been blocked' page even for robots.txt, and governor.nc.gov returned 'Access denied' — neither bypassed. Governor Josh Stein (D), SD-41 Caleb Theodros (D) and HD-102 Becky Carney (D) are therefore taken from the NCSBE official 2024 general-election precinct results (results_pct_20241105.zip; Stein 3,069,496 votes; Theodros won SD-41; Carney sole candidate for HD-102) and marked "unofficial": true because no current roster was read. The Governor is not on the 2026 ballot (next election November 2028).
Candidates: NC State Board of Elections '2026 General Candidate List by Contest — Federal and State Only' (PDF, S3 Last-Modified 2026-10-13; header: Election 11/03/2026, all counties), cross-checked with the all-contest version's Mecklenburg section (lists US Senate, US House 08/12/14, SD-37 to 42, HD-88 to 112, county and judicial contests). Name as printed in 'Name on Ballot' is used as name; the list's legal name is kept in ballotName; party codes kept in ballotParty (DEM, REP, LIB, GRE). Addresses printed on the list were not copied. The CSV version carries candidate emails and was not downloaded. Write-ins are not on these lists; primary losers excluded.
U.S. Senate 2026: open seat (Thom Tillis not on the general list): Michael Whatley (REP), Roy Cooper (DEM), Shannon W. Bray (LIB), Michael Dublin (GRE). House: NC-8 Mark Harris (R, inc.) vs Colby Watson (D), Bo Whitehead (G); NC-12 Alma S. Adams (D, inc.) vs Jack Codiga (R); NC-14 Tim Moore (R, inc.) vs Lakesha Womack (D). SD-41 Caleb Theodros (D, inc.) vs Kevin Gray (R). HD-102 Becky Carney (D, inc.) is unopposed.
Robots/terms: charlottenc.gov (robots.txt served to the default client — a browser user-agent got an Akamai 'Access Denied'; council pages allowed; '© 2026 City of Charlotte', 'Privacy & Legal Notices' linked, no reuse licence stated; council photos linked, not copied), house.gov (allows), ncsbe.gov (allows; standard Drupal robots), s3.amazonaws.com dl.ncsbe.gov files (no robots.txt — AccessDenied at the bucket root; public NCSBE downloads linked from ncsbe.gov), geocoding.geo.census.gov and tigerweb.geo.census.gov (public Census services, as in earlier runs), unitedstates.github.io (CC0). Blocked, not bypassed: senate.gov (403), ncleg.gov (Cloudflare), governor.nc.gov (403), mecknc.gov (Cloudflare challenge), apps.meckboe.org (Cloudflare).
No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. standsFor null for everyone (no candidate statements read). Wikipedia, Ballotpedia and news were not used.

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-15. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.