Winston-Salem: 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-6 and NC-10; NC Senate districts 31 and 32 and NC House districts 71, 72, 74, 75 and 91 (City Hall: SD-32, HD-72); NC Supreme Court and Court of Appeals seats; Superior and District Court judges (District 31/31B); District Attorney (District 31); Forsyth County commissioners (at-large, District A, District B), Board of Education, sheriff, clerk of superior court and soil and water supervisor. No Governor race (next 2028) and no City of Winston-Salem offices on this ballot..

Holding office16

the sitting council

On the ballot13

4 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Winston-Salem is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): North Carolina's 10th congressional district (City Hall, geocoded at 36.09491, -80.24331); the city spans NC-6, NC-10 (120th Congress map, Census geocoder grid) — Pat Harrigan (Republican)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
J. Allen Joines ✉️ Elected	Mayor	Democratic		City of Winston-Salem

Council Member

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Annette Scippio ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Democratic	East Ward	City of Winston-Salem
Barbara H. Burke ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Democratic	Northeast Ward	City of Winston-Salem
Denise D. Adams ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Democratic	North Ward	City of Winston-Salem
James Taylor, Jr. ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Democratic	Southeast Ward	City of Winston-Salem
Regina Ford Hall ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Democratic	Northwest Ward	City of Winston-Salem
Robert C. Clark ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Republican	West Ward	City of Winston-Salem
Scott Andree-Bowen ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Democratic	Southwest Ward	City of Winston-Salem
Vivián V. Joiner ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Democratic	South Ward	City of Winston-Salem

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"); party from NCSBE 2024 general-election results

State Representative — HD-72

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Amber M. Baker Elected acclaimed unofficial	State Representative → Running	Democratic		NC State Board of Elections

State Senator — SD-32

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Paul Lowe, Jr. Elected unofficial	State Senator → Running	Democratic	NC State Board of Elections
Keenen Altic	State Senator Running	Green	NC State Board of Elections
Peter Antinozzi	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 fetched
Thom Tillis Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican	@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov not fetched
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-6

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Addison McDowell Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican		U.S. House of Representatives
Cyril Jefferson	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic		NC State Board of Elections

U.S. Representative — NC-10

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Pat Harrigan Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican	U.S. House of Representatives
Ashley Bell	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	NC State Board of Elections
Steven Feldman	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: City of Winston-Salem City Council page (https://www.cityofws.org/3499/City-Council, retrieved 2026-10-22) lists the eight ward Council Members; each member's own City page prints party and ward (e.g. "Democrat, Northeast Ward"), official @cityofws.org email and official photo. The Mayor page names "J. Allen Joines"; his party (DEM) is from the NCSBE 2024 general-election results, as the Mayor page does not print it. All nine also match the NCSBE official 2024 municipal results (results_pct_20241105, Forsyth: CITY OF WINSTON-SALEM MAYOR and COUNCIL MEMBER <ward> WARD). Denise D. Adams is Mayor Pro Tempore. Phone numbers on the City pages (one labelled "home") were not copied.
Winston-Salem is mayor-council-manager with PARTISAN municipal elections; City Manager and City Attorney are hired by Council, so there is no other city-wide elected office. The City Council page says "Every four years in November, voters choose the Mayor and Council Members"; the last municipal general election was 2024-11-05, so the next is November 2028. The NCSBE 2026 all-contest list for Forsyth County has no City of Winston-Salem contest (only Town of Rural Hall offices).
standsFor for the eight Council Members is quoted verbatim from the first-person statement on each member's own City page (several share near-identical wording, as the City prints it). Mayor and all federal/state people: standsFor null (no own statement read).
Congressional districts covering the city: Census geocoder (geographies/coordinates) sampled on a 0.015-degree grid over lat 35.975-36.215, lng -80.44 to -80.12; 159 points fell inside Winston-Salem city: NC-10 (132) and NC-6 (27), 120th Congress map. The Forsyth County section of the NCSBE 2026 all-contest list carries only US House districts 06 and 10, consistent with this. TIGERweb answered "Request Rejected" even to robots.txt, so no city polygon was used; the grid is coarse (~1.5 km) and slivers could be missed.
State legislative districts covering the city by the same grid (2026 layers): Senate 31 (40 points) and 32 (119); House 71 (44), 72 (50), 74 (19), 75 (29), 91 (17). Only City Hall's districts (SD-32, HD-72; City Hall geocoded by the Census geocoder at 36.09491, -80.24331) are recorded as people, per the brief.
State officeholders: Governor Josh Stein from governor.nc.gov (home page, retrieved 2026-10-22). ncleg.gov returned a Cloudflare 'Attention Required' page even for robots.txt; not bypassed. SD-32 Paul Lowe, Jr. (D) and HD-72 Amber M. Baker (D) are therefore taken from the NCSBE official 2024 general-election results and marked "unofficial": true; both are on the 2026 general list (Baker UNOPPOSED).
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 Forsyth section of the all-contest version (pages 111-116). 'Name on Ballot' used as name; legal name kept in ballotName, party code in ballotParty. Addresses printed on the list were not copied. Write-ins 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-10 Pat Harrigan (R, inc.) vs Ashley Bell (D), Steven Feldman (L); NC-6 Addison McDowell (R, inc.) vs Cyril Jefferson (D). SD-32: Paul Lowe, Jr. (D, inc.) vs Peter Antinozzi (R), Keenen Altic (G). HD-72: Amber M. Baker (D, inc.) unopposed.
Federal officeholders: house.gov Directory of Representatives (NC 6th McDowell, 10th Harrigan; retrieved 2026-10-22); U.S. Senators from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json (Tillis term ends 2027-01-03, Budd 2029-01-03). No federal photos linked (no official photo pages read).
Robots/terms: cityofws.org robots.txt allows the pages used (Crawl-delay 10 honoured; its ClaudeBot group carries only the site-wide path rules); terms page read (non-commercial copying permitted with credit; copyright reserved). ncsbe.gov, house.gov and governor.nc.gov robots.txt allow (standard Drupal). s3.amazonaws.com returns an S3 AccessDenied XML for /robots.txt (no bucket file), and the dl.ncsbe.gov files are the public NCSBE downloads linked from ncsbe.gov. geocoding.geo.census.gov has no robots.txt (404). unitedstates.github.io has no robots.txt (404); CC0. Blocked, not bypassed: ncleg.gov (Cloudflare), tigerweb.geo.census.gov (Request Rejected). No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. Wikipedia, Ballotpedia and news were 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.