North Carolina 9th District
Currently held by a Republican · incumbent running · district redrawn for 2026
- Projected margin
- R+5.4
- 80% range
- R+16.9 to D+6.2
- Partisan lean
- R+15.2
- Tipping-point chance
- 0.59%
- 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+5.1
- Blended
- R+5.1
- Similar-race shift
- +1.7
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+15.2
- Elasticity
- 0.91
- Incumbency
- −1.9
- Candidate experience
- 0.0
- Fundraising
- +1.7
- National environment
- D+7.1
- Expected margin
- R+6.8
- 2024 margin
- R+16.0
- 2020 margin
- R+14.1
- Shift 2020 → 2024
- R+2.0
- Votes cast, 2024
- 382,677
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
- 577,673
- Median age
- 48.7
- Median household income
- $61,800
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 27%
- White
- 62%
- Black
- 22%
- Hispanic
- 11%
- Asian
- 3%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard L. Hudson | REP | $3.2M | $1.3M |
| Richard N. Ojeda | DEM | $2.2M | $164k |
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.