Fayetteville: 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 (open Tillis seat); U.S. Representative NC-7 and NC-9; NC Senate SD-19 (City Hall) and SD-21; NC House HD-42, HD-43, HD-44 (City Hall; unopposed), HD-45; NC Supreme Court and Court of Appeals seats; Superior and District Court judges (District 14) and District Attorney (District 14); Cumberland County commissioners (at-large, District 1), clerk of superior court, sheriff, board of education (at-large), soil and water. No Governor race (next 2028). No City of Fayetteville office is on the 2026 list..

Holding office17

the sitting council

On the ballot12

4 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): North Carolina's 7th congressional district (City Hall) and 9th (most of the city: 32 of 47 grid points) — Richard Hudson (Republican)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Derrick Thompson ✉️ Elected	Mayor Pro Tem / Council Member	Independent		City of Fayetteville
Mitch Colvin ✉️ Elected	Mayor	Independent		City of Fayetteville

Council Member

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Antonio Jones ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 3	City of Fayetteville
Brenda McNair ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 7	City of Fayetteville
D.J. Haire ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 4	City of Fayetteville
Deno Hondros ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 9	City of Fayetteville
Lynne Greene ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 5	City of Fayetteville
Malik Davis ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 2	City of Fayetteville
Shaun McMillan ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 8	City of Fayetteville
Stephon Ferguson ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 1	City of Fayetteville

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Josh Stein Elected	Governor	Democratic		Office of the Governor of North Carolina

State Representative — HD-44

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

State Senator — SD-19

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Val Applewhite Elected unofficial	State Senator → Running	Democratic		NC State Board of Elections
Venus de la Cruz	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 (Akamai) to this client in earlier runs
Thom Tillis Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican	@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov returned HTTP 403 (Akamai) to this client in earlier runs
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-7

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
David Rouzer Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican	U.S. House of Representatives
Kimberly Hardy	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	NC State Board of Elections
Maad Abu-Ghazalah	U.S. Representative Running	Libertarian	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

Notes on this record

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

Municipal: Mayor Mitch Colvin and nine district Council Members from fayettevillenc.gov 'City Council Members' (read 2026-11-01). City Council page: 'the City Council consists of nine Council members and a mayor ... The mayor is elected at-large by all Fayetteville residents and all nine Council members are elected from individual districts.' Non-partisan. Official @FayettevilleNC.gov emails kept; the shared council phone printed on the page not copied. The page states its member profiles are 'provided directly by the Council Members'; profile text was not used as standsFor (biographies, not platforms). 'Dr.' honorifics dropped from name fields and noted.
Photos: not linked — the city's Privacy Policy and Rights of Use page says 'Hotlinking to images, video, or audio on the City of Fayetteville website is not allowed.'
Next City of Fayetteville election: November 2027 (odd-year cycle; members elected/seated December 2025, two-year terms implied by Colvin 'elected in November 2017 ... fifth term' and Haire '13th term'); inferred, not read from a 2027 calendar. No City contest appears on the NCSBE 2026 list.
Candidates: NCSBE '2026 General Candidate List by Contest' (all contests, report Oct 13, 2026 12:25 pm; Election 11/03/2026), Cumberland section. Name on Ballot used as name; legal name in ballotName. The list prints addresses — never copied. Write-ins and primary losers excluded. Raw PDF deleted after extraction.
Districts: Census geocoder at City Hall: NC-7, SD-19, HD-44 (2026 layers). 9x9 grid over the city (47 points inside 'Fayetteville city'): NC-9 32, NC-7 15; SD-19 29, SD-21 18; HD-42 22, HD-44 15, HD-43 6, HD-45 4. Only City Hall's state seats are recorded as people; both congressional districts are. Also on the ballot for parts of the city: SD-21 Tom McInnis (REP) v Paul Taylor (DEM); HD-42 Mike Colvin (DEM, sole candidate); HD-43 Diane Wheatley (REP) v Janene Ackles (DEM); HD-45 Frances Jackson (DEM, sole candidate).
Sitting state legislators: ncleg.gov returned a Cloudflare 'Attention Required' challenge even for robots.txt (2026-11-01) — not pursued. SD-19 Val Applewhite and HD-44 Charles Smith therefore come from the NCSBE official 2024 general-election precinct results file (3.7 MB, deleted after extraction) and are flagged unofficial: true. Both are on the 2026 list for their seats. Senators and Representatives from CC0 legislators-current.json (2026-11-01) and house.gov/representatives (2026-11-01). U.S. Senate and Governor rows match us-wilmington / us-raleigh (same NCSBE list).
Robots/terms: fayettevillenc.gov robots.txt (* group only, no AI-agent group, no crawl-delay) disallows district-finder/map and misc. paths, not the council pages; site content copyright City of Fayetteville. s3.amazonaws.com robots.txt answers 403 AccessDenied (bucket root); the dl.ncsbe.gov files are the public NCSBE downloads linked from ncsbe.gov. house.gov allows /representatives; geocoding.geo.census.gov and unitedstates.github.io no robots.txt (404). No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. standsFor null for everyone.

Sources

Prepared 2026-11-01. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.