North Carolina 3rd District
Currently held by a Republican · incumbent running · district redrawn for 2026
- Projected margin
- R+8.5
- 80% range
- R+20.0 to D+3.0
- Partisan lean
- R+12.1
- Tipping-point chance
- 0.33%
- Uncertainty multiplier
- 1.80×
The 80% range comes from 200,000 simulations in which this race’s error is correlated with every other race through the national, state and demographic layers.
- Polling average
- no polls
- Fundamentals
- R+8.3
- Blended
- R+8.3
- Similar-race shift
- +1.3
No public polling of this matchup. The forecast rests on fundamentals plus the polling residuals of demographically and politically similar races — which is the normal case: most of the 435 House seats are never polled.
- Partisan lean
- R+12.1
- Elasticity
- 1.01
- Incumbency
- −1.9
- Candidate experience
- 0.0
- Fundraising
- −2.6
- National environment
- D+7.1
- Expected margin
- R+9.6
- 2024 margin
- R+13.8
- 2020 margin
- R+8.4
- Shift 2020 → 2024
- R+5.3
- Votes cast, 2024
- 346,080
Presidential results reaggregated onto the 2026 district lines. This is where the seat’s partisan lean comes from, and it carries most of the forecast in a race nobody has polled.
- Population
- 576,660
- Median age
- 45.5
- Median household income
- $53,700
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 23%
- White
- 56%
- Black
- 29%
- Hispanic
- 11%
- Asian
- 2%
Used to find demographically similar districts, so a race with no polling can borrow the polling error of races that look like it.
| Candidate | Party | Raised | Cash on hand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gregory Francis Dr. Murphy | REP | $2.4M | $2.7M |
| Allison Jaslow | DEM | $274k | $0 |
Receipts across the cycle, from FEC bulk filings. The model uses the ratio between the two sides rather than either total, and weights it lightly — money follows a competitive race at least as much as it causes one.