North Carolina 11th District
Currently held by a Republican · open seat · district redrawn for 2026
- Projected margin
- D+3.0
- 80% range
- R+9.5 to D+15.6
- Partisan lean
- R+9.7
- Tipping-point chance
- 1.24%
- Uncertainty multiplier
- 2.01×
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
- D+3.2
- Blended
- D+3.2
- Similar-race shift
- +1.8
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+9.7
- Elasticity
- 0.88
- Incumbency
- 0.0
- Candidate experience
- 0.0
- Fundraising
- +2.8
- National environment
- D+7.1
- Expected margin
- D+1.4
- 2024 margin
- R+9.6
- 2020 margin
- R+11.2
- Shift 2020 → 2024
- D+1.5
- Votes cast, 2024
- 441,237
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
- 609,924
- Median age
- 53.5
- Median household income
- $59,900
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 33%
- White
- 85%
- Black
- 4%
- Hispanic
- 6%
- Asian
- 1%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jamie Ager | DEM | $3.1M | $2.2M |
| Chuck Edwards | REP | $940k | $486k |
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.