<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2Zwqzt_1GrLZPfU00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2Zwqzt_1GrLZPfU00" width="960" height="1400" ></figure>In a rematch of the 2024 General Election, Democrat incumbent Don Davis has once again defeated Republican challenger Laurie Buckout in a race to represent North Carolina’s First Congressional District. With nearly $53 million spent on political advertising the 2026 election cycle, this was the most expensive race on record for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The unofficial results from Tuesday’s General Election show Davis with 156,564 votes compared to 146,259 for Buckhout. Libertarian Party candidate Tom Bailey received 9,880 votes.“Tonight [Tuesday], we proved that it truly is the People’s House,” Davis said in a post on his Facebook page. “Districts may change, lines may be redrawn, but at the end of the day, the people have the final say. And tonight, the people of eastern North Carolina have spoken loud and clear. Our resilience shows the greatness of our state and nation.”In 2024, Davis’s margin of victory over Buckout was just over 6,000 votes. That advantage was a shade over 10,000 votes in this year’s election, despite the First District being redrawn, which led to an increase in the number of Republican voters.The First District is comprised of 25 counties, stretching from Granville (northwest) to Onslow (southeast). Davis topped the voting in 12 counties (Bertie, Edgecombe, Granville, Halifax, Hertford, Martin, Nash, Northampton, Pasquotank, Vance, Warren, and Washington). In Bertie County, Davis, with 4,225 votes, held a decisive edge over Buckout (2,349). That margin was even wider in Hertford County where Davis was named on 4,847 ballots compared to 2,062 for Buckout. Davis’s widest margin of victory came in Edgecombe County where he received nearly 7,000 more votes than Buckout.Buckout was the top vote-getter in 13 counties (Beaufort, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hyde, Onslow, Pamlico, Perquimans, and Tyrrell).Gates County voters favored Buckout by a slim margin (2,095-to-1,930). Her largest margin of victory was in Carteret County where she received 10,239 more votes than Davis.Davis also led the early voting (109,965-to-84,709) and absentee by-mail voting (3,533-to-1,514).There were three races with local implications on Tuesday’s ballot for seats in the North Carolina House of Representatives and North Carolina Senate.In an upset in the District 5 State House race, two-term incumbent Bill Ward, a Republican, was defeated by Sam Davis III, a Democrat. District 5 encompasses Camden, Gates, Hertford, and Pasquotank counties.The unofficial results show Davis with 16,082 votes while Ward was named on 14,385 ballots. Davis topped the vote count in Hertford (4,754-to-2,270) and Pasquotank (8,099-to-6,687). Ward won Camden (3,144-to-1,364) and Gates (2,284-to-1,865) counties.During early voting, Davis had 11,087 votes while Ward attracted 7,538 votes. Davis also had more absentee by-mail votes (345-to-135).NC House District 27 incumbent Rodney D. Pierce, a Democrat, won his reelection bid by easily defeating Republican challenger David Woodson, 20,657-to-11,864. Pierce swept all three counties in District 27 (Halifax, Northampton, Warren). In Northampton, Pierce received 4,283 votes compared to 2,628 for Woodson. Early voting (13,849-to-5,977) and absentee by mail (295-to-112) also favored Pierce by wide margins.In District 23 of the NC House, Patricia Smith, a Democrat, handily defeated Republican candidate Brent Roberson, 20,679-to-12,968.Smith carried two of the three counties in the District, to include Bertie where she outdistanced Roberson, 4,102-to-2,515. Her largest support came in early voting (14,753-to-6,559).Locally, two incumbent District Attorneys were unopposed in their reelection bids. In District 1, which includes Gates County, Jeff Cruden received 43,493 votes. In District 7 – which includes Bertie, Hertford and Northampton counties – Kim Gourrier Scott earned another term with 28,946 votes.In the race for U.S. Senate, former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, routed his Republican opponent, Michael Whatley, by nearly 20 percentage points. The unofficial tally show Cooper with 2,467,963 votes (58.72%) compared to 1,643,088 for Whatley (39.09%). The remaining votes went to Libertarian Party candidate Shannon W. Bray (55,726) and Green Party candidate Michael Dubin (36,404).Locally, Cooper topped the balloting (vs. Whatley) in Bertie (4,227-to-2,362), Hertford (4,913-to-2,071), and Northampton (4,392-to-2,479) counties. The majority of Gates County voters gave the nod to Whatley (2,125-to-1,956).The Democratic Party’s wave of success in this mid-term election carried over to the state’s highest levels of justice.Democrats retained a seat on the NC Supreme Court as Anita Earls won by nearly 20 percentage points over her Republican challenger.John S. Arrowood, Tobias (Toby) Hampson, and Christine Marie Walczyk, all Democrats, swept the available seats on the NC Court of Appeals. Roanoke-Chowan area voters joined in with those across the state in approving all three constitutional amendments. Those statewide totals were:Require Photo ID for Voting – For: 2,463,276; Against: 1,669,764Maximum Income Tax Rate of 3.5% - For: 2,559,740; Against: 1,574,257Property Tax Levy Limit – For: 2,492,891; Against: 1,632,769</div></body>

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In a rematch of the 2024 General Election, Democrat incumbent Don Davis has once again defeated Republican challenger Laurie Buckout in a race to represent North Carolina’s First Congressional District. With nearly $53 million spent on political advertising the 2026 election cycle, this was the most expensive race on...

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In a rematch of the 2024 General Election, Democrat incumbent Don Davis has once again defeated Republican challenger Laurie Buckout in a race to represent

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