Fayetteville: 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 and NC-9; NC Senate SD-19 (City Hall) and SD-21; NC House HD-42, HD-43, HD-44 (City Hall; unopposed), HD-45; NC Supreme Court and Court of Appeals seats; Superior and District Court judges (District 14) and District Attorney (District 14); Cumberland County commissioners (at-large, District 1), clerk of superior court, sheriff, board of education (at-large), soil and water. No Governor race (next 2028). No City of Fayetteville office is on the 2026 list..
Holding office17
the sitting council
On the ballot12
4 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Fayetteville is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): North Carolina's 7th congressional district (City Hall) and 9th (most of the city: 32 of 47 grid points) — Richard Hudson (Republican)
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Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derrick Thompson ✉️ Elected | Mayor Pro Tem / Council Member | Independent | City of Fayetteville | |
| Mitch Colvin ✉️ Elected | Mayor | Independent | City of Fayetteville |
2
Council Member
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antonio Jones ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 3 | City of Fayetteville |
| Brenda McNair ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 7 | City of Fayetteville |
| D.J. Haire ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 4 | City of Fayetteville |
| Deno Hondros ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 9 | City of Fayetteville |
| Lynne Greene ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 5 | City of Fayetteville |
| Malik Davis ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 2 | City of Fayetteville |
| Shaun McMillan ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 8 | City of Fayetteville |
| Stephon Ferguson ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 1 | City of Fayetteville |
3
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Stein Elected | Governor | Democratic | Office of the Governor of North Carolina |
4
State Representative — HD-44
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Smith Elected acclaimed unofficial | State Representative → Winner 17,814 votes · 100% | Democratic | NC State Board of Elections |
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State Senator — SD-19
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Val Applewhite Elected unofficial | State Senator → Winner 45,407 votes · 73.56% | Democratic | NC State Board of Elections | |
| Venus de la Cruz | State Senator Concede 16,319 votes · 26.44% | Republican | 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 in earlier runs | |
| Thom Tillis Elected | U.S. Senator | Republican | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov returned HTTP 403 (Akamai) to this client in earlier 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-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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U.S. Representative — NC-9
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Hudson Elected | U.S. Representative → Concede 132,692 votes · 48.89% | Republican | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Richard N. Ojeda II | U.S. Representative Winner 138,707 votes · 51.11% | Democratic | 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 Mitch Colvin and nine district Council Members from fayettevillenc.gov 'City Council Members' (read 2026-11-01). City Council page: 'the City Council consists of nine Council members and a mayor ... The mayor is elected at-large by all Fayetteville residents and all nine Council members are elected from individual districts.' Non-partisan. Official @FayettevilleNC.gov emails kept; the shared council phone printed on the page not copied. The page states its member profiles are 'provided directly by the Council Members'; profile text was not used as standsFor (biographies, not platforms). 'Dr.' honorifics dropped from name fields and noted.
- Photos: not linked — the city's Privacy Policy and Rights of Use page says 'Hotlinking to images, video, or audio on the City of Fayetteville website is not allowed.'
- Next City of Fayetteville election: November 2027 (odd-year cycle; members elected/seated December 2025, two-year terms implied by Colvin 'elected in November 2017 ... fifth term' and Haire '13th term'); inferred, not read from a 2027 calendar. No City contest appears on the NCSBE 2026 list.
- Candidates: NCSBE '2026 General Candidate List by Contest' (all contests, report Oct 13, 2026 12:25 pm; Election 11/03/2026), Cumberland section. Name on Ballot used as name; legal name in ballotName. The list prints addresses — never copied. Write-ins and primary losers excluded. Raw PDF deleted after extraction.
- Districts: Census geocoder at City Hall: NC-7, SD-19, HD-44 (2026 layers). 9x9 grid over the city (47 points inside 'Fayetteville city'): NC-9 32, NC-7 15; SD-19 29, SD-21 18; HD-42 22, HD-44 15, HD-43 6, HD-45 4. Only City Hall's state seats are recorded as people; both congressional districts are. Also on the ballot for parts of the city: SD-21 Tom McInnis (REP) v Paul Taylor (DEM); HD-42 Mike Colvin (DEM, sole candidate); HD-43 Diane Wheatley (REP) v Janene Ackles (DEM); HD-45 Frances Jackson (DEM, sole candidate).
- Sitting state legislators: ncleg.gov returned a Cloudflare 'Attention Required' challenge even for robots.txt (2026-11-01) — not pursued. SD-19 Val Applewhite and HD-44 Charles Smith therefore come from the NCSBE official 2024 general-election precinct results file (3.7 MB, deleted after extraction) and are flagged unofficial: true. Both are on the 2026 list for their seats. Senators and Representatives from CC0 legislators-current.json (2026-11-01) and house.gov/representatives (2026-11-01). U.S. Senate and Governor rows match us-wilmington / us-raleigh (same NCSBE list).
- Robots/terms: fayettevillenc.gov robots.txt (* group only, no AI-agent group, no crawl-delay) disallows district-finder/map and misc. paths, not the council pages; site content copyright City of Fayetteville. 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 /representatives; geocoding.geo.census.gov and unitedstates.github.io no robots.txt (404). No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. standsFor null for everyone.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-11-01. 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 Fayetteville — City Council Members 10
- NC State Board of Elections — 2026 General Candidate List by Contest (all contests; report Oct 13, 2026 12:25 pm; Cumberland section) 8
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov returned HTTP 403 (Akamai) to this client in earlier runs 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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DISTRICT 044: Charles Smith DEM 20,941; Freddie de la Cruz REP 12,683) 1
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives (North Carolina 7th); also CC0 legislators-current.json; on the NCSBE 2026 general list 1
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives (North Carolina 9th); also CC0 legislators-current.json; on the NCSBE 2026 general list 1
- NC State Board of Elections — official 2024 general-election precinct results (NC STATE SENATE DISTRICT 19: Val Applewhite DEM 55,697; Semone Pemberton REP 30,005; Steven Swinton LIB 2,884) 1