Wilmington: 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; NC Senate SD-7 and SD-8 (city hall SD-8) and NC House HD-18, HD-19, HD-20 seats touching the city (city hall HD-18); NC Supreme Court and Court of Appeals seats; Superior and District Court judges and District Attorney (District 6); New Hanover County commissioners, board of education, clerk of superior court, sheriff, soil and water. No Governor race (next 2028). No City of Wilmington office is on the 2026 list..
Holding office13
the sitting council
On the ballot12
3 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Wilmington is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): North Carolina's 7th congressional district (whole city: all 53 grid points) — David Rouzer (Republican)
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Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Saffo ✉️ Elected | Mayor | Independent | City of Wilmington | |
| Kevin Spears ✉️ Elected | Mayor Pro-Tem | Independent | City of Wilmington |
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Councilmember
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cassidy Santaguida ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | At-large | City of Wilmington |
| Chakema Clinton-Quintana ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | At-large | City of Wilmington |
| David Joyner ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | At-large | City of Wilmington |
| JC Lyle ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | At-large | City of Wilmington |
| Salette Andrews ✉️ Elected | Councilmember | Independent | At-large | City of Wilmington |
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Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Stein Elected | Governor | Democratic | Office of the Governor of North Carolina |
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State Representative — HD-18
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deb Butler Elected unofficial | State Representative → Running | Democratic | NC State Board of Elections | |
| Latisha Grady | State Representative Running | Republican | NC State Board of Elections |
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State Senator — SD-8
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Rabon Elected unofficial | State Senator → Running | Republican | NC State Board of Elections | |
| Richard (Rick) Combes | State Senator Running | Democratic | NC State Board of Elections | |
| Tim White | State Senator Running | Libertarian | NC State Board of Elections |
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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 |
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U.S. Representative — NC-7
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | 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 |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Municipal: Mayor Bill Saffo, Mayor Pro-Tem Kevin Spears and five Councilmembers from wilmingtonnc.gov 'City Mayor & Council' (the /Government/City-Mayor-Council URL redirects to /Connect-With-Us/City-Mayor-Council), read 2026-10-31. Page: 'The City is governed by a non-partisan City Council consisting of a Mayor, Mayor Pro-Tem and five Council members ... All Council members represent the entire City, as they are not elected based on a specific district. Elections are held every two years with the Mayor serving two-year terms and Council members serving staggered four-year terms.' Official @wilmingtonnc.gov emails kept; the page also prints phone numbers (not copied). Photos linked.
- Next City of Wilmington election: odd-year cycle (two-year mayoral terms; staggered four-year council terms) — next general November 2027 (Mayor plus part of council); inferred from the page and the absence of any City contest on the NCSBE 2026 list, not read from a 2027 calendar.
- Candidates: NCSBE '2026 General Candidate List by Contest' (all contests, report time Oct 13, 2026 12:25 pm; Election 11/03/2026), New Hanover section. Name on Ballot used as name; legal name in ballotName. The list prints addresses — never copied. Statewide U.S. Senate rows and Senators Tillis/Budd and Governor Stein carried from the us-raleigh record (same NCSBE list; Stein from governor.nc.gov 2026-10-22; senators from CC0 legislators-current.json). Write-ins and primary losers excluded.
- Districts: Census geocoder at City Hall: NC-7, SD-8, HD-18 (2026 layers and the 2024 layers alike). 9x9 grid over the city (53 points inside Wilmington city, 2026 layers): NC-7 53; SD-7 43, SD-8 10; HD-18 37, HD-20 16. Only city hall's seats are recorded as people. Also on the ballot for parts of the city: SD-7 Jessica Bichler (DEM) v Michael Lee (REP); HD-20 Dane Scalise (REP) v Tim Merrick (DEM); HD-19 Scott Nasiff (DEM) v Charlie Miller (REP) (HD-19 not hit by the grid).
- Sitting state legislators: ncleg.gov answered a Cloudflare challenge in earlier runs (not retried); SD-8 Bill Rabon and HD-18 Deb Butler are therefore taken from the NCSBE official 2024 general-election precinct results file (3.7 MB, deleted after extraction) and flagged unofficial: true. Both are on the 2026 list for their seats. Rouzer from house.gov/representatives (read 2026-10-31).
- Robots/terms: wilmingtonnc.gov robots.txt (* group only, no AI-agent group) disallows redirect/map/job paths, not the council pages. 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; geocoding.geo.census.gov no robots.txt. No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. standsFor null for everyone.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-10-31. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.
- City of Wilmington — City Mayor & Council 7
- NC State Board of Elections — 2026 General Candidate List by Contest (all contests; report Oct 13, 2026 12:25 pm; New Hanover section) 5
- NC State Board of Elections — 2026 General Candidate List by Contest, Federal and State Only (file dated 2026-10-13) 4
- @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
- NC State Board of Elections — official 2024 general-election precinct results (NC STATE SENATE DISTRICT 08: Rabon 87,026, Randall 58,259) 1
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives (North Carolina 7th); on the NCSBE 2026 general list 1
- NC State Board of Elections — official 2024 general-election precinct results (NC HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DISTRICT 018: Butler 33,008; write-ins only otherwise) 1