Asheville: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal, state, county and City of Asheville offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (open Tillis seat); U.S. Representative NC-11 (Edwards not on the ballot); NC Senate District 49 and NC House District 116 (City Hall; HD-114 and possibly HD-115 also cover parts of the city); NC Supreme Court / Court of Appeals; Buncombe County commissioners, sheriff, clerk, district attorney, judges, soil and water, Buncombe County Schools board; and the CITY OF ASHEVILLE: Mayor (Manheimer vs Roney) and City Council (three seats; six candidates). No Governor race (next 2028)..

Holding office13
the sitting council
On the ballot18
7 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): North Carolina's 11th congressional district (City Hall and every sampled point in the city) — Chuck Edwards (Republican)

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Mayor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Esther E. Manheimer ✉️ Elected Mayor → Concede 18,375 votes · 41.42% Independent City of Asheville
Kim Roney ✉️ Elected Council Member → Winner 25,676 votes · 57.88% for Mayor Independent City of Asheville
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Council Member

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Bo Hess ✉️ Elected Council Member Independent At-Large City of Asheville
Sage Turner ✉️ Elected Council Member Independent At-Large City of Asheville
Maggie Ullman ✉️ Elected Council Member → Winner 23,344 votes · 20.82% Independent At-Large City of Asheville
S. Antanette Mosley ✉️ Elected Vice Mayor → Winner 19,821 votes · 17.68% for Council Member Independent At-Large City of Asheville
Sheneika Smith ✉️ Elected Council Member → Concede 11,539 votes · 10.29% Independent At-Large City of Asheville
Drew Ball Council Member Winner 25,586 votes · 22.82% Independent At-Large NC State Board of Elections
Jeffrey Burroughs Council Member Concede 17,277 votes · 15.41% Independent At-Large NC State Board of Elections
Keith Young Council Member Concede 14,120 votes · 12.59% Independent At-Large NC State Board of Elections
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Governor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Josh Stein Elected unofficial Governor Democratic NC State Board of Elections
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State Representative — HD-116

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Brian Turner Elected acclaimed unofficial State Representative → Winner 38,732 votes · 100% Democratic NC State Board of Elections
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State Senator — SD-49

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Julie Mayfield Elected unofficial State Senator → Winner 77,184 votes · 77.15% Democratic NC State Board of Elections
CJ Domingo State Senator Concede 22,866 votes · 22.85% Republican NC State Board of Elections
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U.S. Senator

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Ted Budd Elected U.S. Senator Republican @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov returned HTTP 403 in earlier NC runs
Thom Tillis Elected U.S. Senator Republican @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov returned HTTP 403 in earlier NC runs
Michael Dublin U.S. Senator Concede 36,404 votes · 0.87% Green NC State Board of Elections
Michael Whatley U.S. Senator Concede 1,643,088 votes · 39.09% Republican NC State Board of Elections
Roy Cooper U.S. Senator Winner 2,467,963 votes · 58.72% Democratic NC State Board of Elections
Shannon W. Bray U.S. Senator Concede 55,726 votes · 1.33% Libertarian NC State Board of Elections
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U.S. Representative — NC-11

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Chuck Edwards Elected U.S. Representative Republican U.S. House of Representatives
Jamie Ager U.S. Representative Winner 195,637 votes · 57.14% Democratic NC State Board of Elections
Jennifer Capps Balkcom U.S. Representative Concede 141,427 votes · 41.3% Republican NC State Board of Elections
Travis Groo U.S. Representative Concede 5,345 votes · 1.56% Libertarian NC State Board of Elections
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Notes on this record

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

  • Region check: local/data/us-asheville.json is Asheville, North Carolina (centre 35.5842,-82.5657).
  • Municipal: Mayor and six Council Members from https://www.ashevillenc.gov/government/meet-city-council/ and each member's page (retrieved 2026-10-31), which print the term ('Term: December 2022 - December 2026' etc.) and an @avlcouncil.com address (official council-member addresses linked from the City site; kept). Council is elected at-large and non-partisan (party null). Mosley is Vice Mayor. Portraits linked (og:image), not copied.
  • City election 2026: the Buncombe section of the NCSBE all-contest list (report dated Oct 13, 2026) has CITY OF ASHEVILLE MAYOR (Esther Manheimer, Kim Roney) and CITY OF ASHEVILLE CITY COUNCIL (Drew Ball, Maggie Ullman Berthiaume, Jeffrey Burroughs, S. Antanette Mosley, Sheneika E. Smith, Keith Young). The three Council seats ending December 2026 (Mosley, Ullman, Smith) are up; the list does not print the vote-for number — three seats inferred from the terms on the City pages. Roney's council term runs to 2028; she is running for Mayor.
  • Districts: Census coordinate lookup at City Hall (35.5954,-82.5495) gave CD-11, State Senate 49, State House 116 (2026 layers). An 8x8 grid over 35.49-35.67 N, 82.45-82.68 W put only 13 points inside "Asheville city": CD-11 and SD-49 on all 13; HD-116 (12), HD-114 (1). The sample is thin for an irregular city; HD-115 may also touch it. Only City Hall's legislators are recorded.
  • Federal: NC-11 member from https://www.house.gov/representatives (robots allows; retrieved 2026-10-31) — Chuck Edwards (R). He is NOT on the 2026 general list; the NC-11 candidates are Jennifer Capps Balkcom (REP, filed 08/11/2026), Jamie Ager (DEM), Travis Groo (LIB). Senators, the four U.S. Senate candidates and Governor Stein carried from us-greensboro; the Senate list was re-read 2026-10-31.
  • State: ncleg.gov answers a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403 "Attention Required!") even for robots.txt — not bypassed. Mayfield (SD-49) and Turner (HD-116) taken from the NCSBE official 2024 general precinct results (results_pct_20241105.zip, 3.7 MB, deleted after reading) and marked unofficial. Turner is unopposed in 2026 (acclaimed: true is set for the unopposed flag; he is still on the ballot).
  • Candidates: NCSBE '2026 General Candidate List by Contest' — Federal and State Only, and the all-contest version (both S3 Last-Modified 2026-10-13). 'Name on Ballot' used as name. The lists print home/mailing addresses — not copied. Buncombe County, school board, judicial and soil-and-water contests not recorded as people. Write-ins excluded.
  • Robots/terms: www.ashevillenc.gov robots.txt allows all; house.gov allows /representatives; s3.amazonaws.com returns 403 AccessDenied for /robots.txt (no rules published) — the public NCSBE download files were fetched; geocoding.geo.census.gov no robots.txt (404). Blocked: ncleg.gov (Cloudflare). standsFor null throughout.
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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.