Raleigh: who represents it, and who is running
U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) with the City of Raleigh municipal election votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (North Carolina, open Tillis seat); U.S. Representatives for NC-2, NC-4 and NC-13; NC Senate and NC House seats (city hall: SD-15, HD-38); NC Supreme Court and Court of Appeals seats; Wake County commissioners, sheriff, clerk of superior court, district attorney and judicial seats; and the CITY OF RALEIGH Mayor, two at-large Council seats (vote for 2) and Council Districts A-E (non-partisan). No Governor race (next 2028)..
Holding office16
the sitting council
On the ballot31
12 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Raleigh is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): North Carolina's 2nd congressional district (Raleigh Municipal Building, 222 W Hargett St); the city spans NC-2, NC-13 and NC-4 (120th Congress map) — Deborah K. Ross (Democratic)
1
Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janet Cowell Elected unofficial | Mayor → Running | Independent | NC State Board of Elections | |
| Ashleigh Heath Armstrong | Mayor Running | Independent | NC State Board of Elections |
2
Council Member
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Lambert-Melton Elected unofficial | Council Member | Independent | At-Large | NC State Board of Elections |
| Stormie Denise Forte Elected unofficial | Council Member → Running | Independent | At-Large | NC State Board of Elections |
| Clark Rinehart | Council Member Running | Independent | At-Large | NC State Board of Elections |
| Joshua Bradley | Council Member Running | Independent | At-Large | NC State Board of Elections |
| Sana Siddiqui | Council Member Running | Independent | At-Large | NC State Board of Elections |
3
Council Member — District A
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitchell Silver Elected unofficial | Council Member → Running | Independent | District A | NC State Board of Elections |
| Whitney Hill | Council Member Running | Independent | District A | NC State Board of Elections |
4
Council Member — District B
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Megan Patton Elected acclaimed unofficial | Council Member → Running | Independent | District B | NC State Board of Elections |
5
Council Member — District C
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corey Branch Elected unofficial | Council Member → Running | Independent | District C | NC State Board of Elections |
| Jared S. Ollison | Council Member Running | Independent | District C | NC State Board of Elections |
6
Council Member — District D
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jane Harrison Elected unofficial | Council Member → Running | Independent | District D | NC State Board of Elections |
| Jevon Smith-Cook | Council Member Running | Independent | District D | NC State Board of Elections |
7
Council Member — District E
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christina Jones Elected unofficial | Council Member → Running | Independent | District E | NC State Board of Elections |
| Marc Scruggs | Council Member Running | Independent | District E | NC State Board of Elections |
8
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Stein Elected | Governor | Democratic | Office of the Governor of North Carolina |
9
State Representative — HD-38
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abe Jones Elected acclaimed unofficial | State Representative → Running | Democratic | NC State Board of Elections |
10
State Senator — SD-15
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jay J. Chaudhuri Elected unofficial | State Senator → Running | Democratic | NC State Board of Elections | |
| David Bankert | State Senator Running | Republican | NC State Board of Elections |
11
U.S. Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ted Budd Elected | U.S. Senator | Republican | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov returned HTTP 403 (Akamai) to this client | |
| Thom Tillis Elected | U.S. Senator | Republican | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov returned HTTP 403 (Akamai) to this client | |
| 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 |
12
U.S. Representative — NC-2
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | 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 |
13
U.S. Representative — NC-4
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | 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 |
14
U.S. Representative — NC-13
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | 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 |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Municipal: raleighnc.gov serves a Cloudflare managed challenge ('Just a moment...', HTTP 403) even for robots.txt — not bypassed. www.wake.gov (Wake County Board of Elections) disallows ClaudeBot in robots.txt and was not fetched; wakegov.com only 301-redirects and was not followed. The Mayor and seven Council Members are therefore taken from the NCSBE official 2024 general-election precinct results (CITY OF RALEIGH MAYOR; CITY COUNCIL AT-LARGE, vote for 2; DISTRICT A-E) and marked "unofficial": true. Raleigh's council is the Mayor plus 2 at-large and 5 district members (eight seats, matching the contests on both the 2024 results and the 2026 list). The City Manager, Attorney and Clerk are appointed; there is no other city-wide elected office.
- City of Raleigh election 2026: the NCSBE 2026 all-contest list (Wake section, and the Durham section for the part of Raleigh in Durham County, which carries Mayor, At-Large and District E) includes CITY OF RALEIGH MAYOR (2 candidates), CITY COUNCIL AT-LARGE (4 candidates for 2 seats) and Districts A-E. Contests are non-partisan (no party printed). A non-partisan primary was held 2026-03-03 for At-Large (6 candidates; Cameron Zamot and James G. Bledsoe eliminated) and District C (4; Diana Angie Powell and Tolulope O. Omokaiye eliminated) per the NCSBE official 2026-03-03 precinct results; primary losers are excluded. Next municipal election after 2026-11-03: not verified — the term length for seats elected in 2026 is set by the City and could not be read on the blocked City site.
- Incumbents not running: At-Large Council Member Jonathan Lambert-Melton is not on the 2026 list for any City seat. All other seven sitting municipal members are on the 2026 list for their own seats.
- Congressional districts covering the city: Census TIGERweb polygon for Raleigh city (place 3755000) sampled on a 140x140 grid (8,510 points inside the city) against the 120th Congress districts (layer 54): NC-2 (8,419 points), NC-13 (61), NC-4 (29). All three sitting members (house.gov directory, retrieved 2026-10-22; cross-checked with legislators-current.json) are on the 2026 general list for their seats. Slivers under ~0.25 km could be missed.
- State legislative districts covering the city by the same grid (2026 layers): Senate 15 (3,122), 16 (2,471), 14 (2,188), 18 (423), 17 (187), 13 (87), 22 (18), 20 (11); House 38 (1,563), 34 (1,461), 40 (1,339), 49 (1,310), 66 (1,142), 33 (667), 39 (384), 41 (359), 11 (196), 35 (61), 31 (29). Eight senate and eleven house districts; only city hall's (SD-15, HD-38) are recorded as people, per the brief.
- State officeholders: ncleg.gov returned a Cloudflare 'Attention Required' 403 even for robots.txt — not bypassed. Governor Josh Stein is taken from governor.nc.gov (robots allows; home page names 'Governor Josh Stein'; retrieved 2026-10-22). SD-15 Jay J. Chaudhuri (D) and HD-38 Abe Jones (D) are taken from the NCSBE official 2024 general-election results and marked "unofficial": true. Abe Jones is UNOPPOSED on the 2026 list.
- 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' is used as name; the legal name is kept in ballotName; party codes in ballotParty. Addresses printed on the list were not copied. Write-ins (including the many 2024 write-in rows) and primary losers excluded.
- 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-13 Brad Knott (R, inc.) vs Paul Barringer (D), Steven Swinton (L). SD-15 Jay J. Chaudhuri (D, inc.) vs David Bankert (R). Mayor: Janet Cowell (inc.) vs Ashleigh Heath Armstrong. At-Large (2 seats): Stormie Denise Forte (inc.), Joshua Bradley, Clark Rinehart, Sana Siddiqui. A: Mitchell Silver (inc.) vs Whitney Hill. B: Megan Patton (inc., unopposed). C: Corey Branch (inc.) vs Jared S. Ollison. D: Jane Harrison (inc.) vs Jevon Smith-Cook. E: Christina Jones (inc.) vs Marc Scruggs.
- Robots/terms: ncsbe.gov and house.gov robots.txt allow (standard Drupal, no AI-agent lines); governor.nc.gov robots allows; s3.amazonaws.com dl.ncsbe.gov files are the public NCSBE downloads; geocoding.geo.census.gov and tigerweb.geo.census.gov public Census services; unitedstates.github.io CC0. Blocked, not bypassed: raleighnc.gov (Cloudflare challenge), ncleg.gov (Cloudflare), senate.gov (Akamai 403). Not fetched by instruction: www.wake.gov (robots disallows ClaudeBot). One User-Agent used throughout: 'ResearchUpon-politics/1.0 (civic research; +https://researchupon.com)'. No photos linked (City photos unreachable; no federal photo pages read). No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. standsFor null for everyone. Wikipedia, Ballotpedia and news not used.
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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.
- NC State Board of Elections — 2026 General Candidate List by Contest, Federal and State Only (file dated 2026-10-13) 11
- NC State Board of Elections — official 2024 general-election precinct results (results_pct_20241105.zip, Wake and Durham counties) 10
- NC State Board of Elections — 2026 General Candidate List by Contest, all contests (Wake section; file dated 2026-10-13) 8
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives (North Carolina); on the NCSBE 2026 general list 3
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov returned HTTP 403 (Akamai) to this client 2
- Office of the Governor of North Carolina — governor.nc.gov home page ('Governor Josh Stein') 1