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Who is on the ballot in 27514?

Orange County, NC

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Fields below reflect the November 3, 2026 general election ballot as races are certified.

15 races on your November 3 ballot. Jump to:
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County and municipal contests depend on your exact address — use the address lookup below for the full slate. Every race links to official sources on the North Carolina voter hub.
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U.S. House, North Carolina District 4
3 candidates
Federal ▾
Valerie P. Foushee portrait
VP
Valerie P. Foushee
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Foushee worked as an administrative officer with the Chapel Hill Police Department for 21 years before serving in the North Carolina House and Senate and on the Orange County Board of Commissioners, per the campaign site. She holds a degree in political science from UNC-Chapel Hill, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Support science, space and technology research
  • Invest in transportation and infrastructure
  • Support education and civil rights
Per the campaign site.
Key voting record
Voted no on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the House 218-214 in July 2025. Opposed
Voted no on the Laken Riley Act, expanding federal detention of certain immigrants charged with theft or violent crimes, which passed the House 263-156 in January 2025. Opposed
Voted no on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026, which passed the House 231-196 in September 2025. Opposed
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Mahesh 'Max' Ganorkar
REP
Biography
Ganorkar holds an MBA in international finance and operates a family-owned construction business, per the campaign site. He previously led a Tea Party group focused on educating Americans about socialism, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Expand school choice through vouchers
  • Reduce housing costs through deregulation
  • Support lower taxes and limited government spending
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Guy Meilleur
Biography
Guy Meilleur is a master arborist, per press coverage of the race. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.
Full profile
About this race
North Carolina fields are from the State Board of Elections' certified general candidate list. NC redrew its congressional map in October 2025, so district boundaries differ from 2024 in the east; enter your street address with the official lookup to confirm your district.
U.S. Senate
4 candidates
Federal ▾
RC
Roy Cooper
DEM
Biography
Roy Cooper is the Democratic nominee for North Carolina's open U.S. Senate seat, a two-term former governor and four-term former attorney general. His Senate campaign's central theme is making everyday life cost less for North Carolinians, building on a gubernatorial record that included signing Medicaid expansion. The race for retiring Sen. Thom Tillis's seat is rated among the most competitive in the country.
Top Priorities
  • Lower everyday costs for North Carolina families
  • Protect health care access, building on Medicaid expansion
  • Invest in public schools and workforce training
Campaign Finance
$26,822,373 raised · top industries: Large donors giving $2,000+ (49% of receipts), Small-dollar donors under $200 (21% of receipts)
Key voting record
Signed North Carolina's Medicaid expansion into law in 2023, extending health coverage to hundreds of thousands of residents after years of advocacy. Supported
Vetoed the legislature' abortion ban in 2023, calling it an attack on reproductive freedom. Opposed
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Michael Whatley
REP
Biography
Michael Whatley is the Republican nominee for North Carolina's open U.S. Senate seat, the former chair of the Republican National Committee and previously of the North Carolina GOP. Endorsed by President Trump, his campaign pledges to enact the America First agenda in the Senate, with an emphasis on law and order and rolling back policies like cashless bail.
Top Priorities
  • Enact the Trump administration's America First agenda
  • Restore law and order, including ending cashless bail
  • Secure the border and back law enforcement
Campaign Finance
$8,410,252 raised · top industries: Large donors giving $2,000+ (62% of receipts), Small-dollar donors under $200 (23% of receipts)
Campaign siteFull profile
Shannon W. Bray portrait
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Shannon W. Bray
Biography
Shannon W. Bray is a U.S. Navy veteran who served from 1991 to 1997 and now works as a cybersecurity professional and systems architect, according to his campaign site. Bray's background includes work on systems handling sensitive information and critical infrastructure. Bray is the Libertarian nominee for U.S. Senate in North Carolina.
Top Priorities
  • Opposing expansion of government surveillance and protecting digital privacy rights
  • Government transparency and accountability systems auditable by the public
  • Modernizing government technology systems while maintaining constitutional limits on defense and intelligence oversight
Per the campaign site.
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Michael Dublin
Biography
Michael Dublin is a public school educator and community activist, according to his campaign site. He filed as the North Carolina Green Party's U.S. Senate candidate on June 15, 2026, per the state Green Party. Dublin is running for U.S. Senate in North Carolina in the November 2026 general election.
Top Priorities
  • Overturning Citizens United and ending gerrymandering
  • A Green New Deal for North Carolina with renewable energy development and union jobs
  • Criminal justice reform, voting rights protection, and expanded access to housing and education
Per the campaign site.
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Supreme Court Associate Justice, Seat 01
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Anita Earls
DEM
Biography
Earls is an attorney who currently serves as an Associate Justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court, per the campaign site. Her campaign focuses on protecting constitutional rights for North Carolinians, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Upholding the state constitution
  • Protecting access to healthcare
  • Defending the right to a sound basic public education and voting rights
Per the NCSBE Judicial Voter Guide.
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Sarah Stevens
REP
Biography
Sarah Stevens is an attorney with more than 30 years in private practice and president of the Surry County Bar Association, per her campaign site. She has served as Republican Leader and Speaker Pro Tempore of the North Carolina House, chairing the House Elections Law and Judiciary Committees, and holds a law degree from Campbell University School of Law, per her campaign site.
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Court of Appeals Judge, Seat 01
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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John S. Arrowood
DEM
Biography
John S. Arrowood is on the State Board of Elections certified candidate list for this seat's November 3, 2026 ballot. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.
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Michael C. Byrne
REP
Biography
Michael C. Byrne is on the State Board of Elections certified candidate list for this seat's November 3, 2026 ballot. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.
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Court of Appeals Judge, Seat 02
2 candidates
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Tobias (Toby) Hampson
DEM
Biography
Tobias (Toby) Hampson is on the State Board of Elections certified candidate list for this seat's November 3, 2026 ballot. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.
Top Priorities
  • Keeping judges with Court of Appeals experience on the bench
  • Defending the rule of law
Per the NCSBE Judicial Voter Guide.
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George Cooper Bell
REP
Biography
George Cooper Bell is on the State Board of Elections certified candidate list for this seat's November 3, 2026 ballot. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.
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Court of Appeals Judge, Seat 03
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
CM
Christine Marie Walczyk
DEM
Biography
Christine Marie Walczyk is on the State Board of Elections certified candidate list for this seat's November 3, 2026 ballot. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.
Top Priorities
  • Protecting individual liberties and equal access to justice
  • Maintaining an independent judiciary
Per the NCSBE Judicial Voter Guide.
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Craig Collins
REP
Biography
Craig Collins is on the State Board of Elections certified candidate list for this seat's November 3, 2026 ballot. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.
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Countywide races in Orange County

ZIP 27514 sits in Orange County, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All Orange County races (12).

Orange County Board of Commissioners At-Large
2 candidates
County ▾
KS
Karen Stegman
DEM
Biography
Stegman is a consultant on non-profit strategy and development with about 25 years of community-development, education and public-health work, including with the Orange County Family Resource Centers, per IndyWeek. She served two terms on the Chapel Hill Town Council before running for the Orange County Board of Commissioners, per her campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Expanding access to affordable housing, per IndyWeek
  • Addressing inequities in the property tax valuation process, per the Daily Tar Heel
  • Effective use of the 2024 school bond, per the Daily Tar Heel
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Jeffrey Hoagland
REP
Biography
Hoagland is an engineer running for the Orange County Board of Commissioners at-large seat; it is his third campaign for elected office in three years, per NC Newsline. No campaign website was found for him as of this county's certified filing period. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026; the official election filing is the only verifiable source for Jeffrey Hoagland.
Top Priorities
  • Making sure law enforcement is properly staffed, trained and funded
  • Fiscal restraint on county tax increases and new funding commitments
Per the NC Newsline.
Full profile
About this race
Open seat: sitting at-large commissioner Sally Greene did not file for re-election, per the Daily Tar Heel. Karen Stegman won the March 3, 2026 Democratic primary over Adam Beeman with about 77 percent of the vote, per the Daily Tar Heel, and faces Republican Jeffrey Hoagland on the November 3, 2026 ballot.
Orange County Clerk of Superior Court
1 candidate
County ▾
MK
Mark Kleinschmidt
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Kleinschmidt has served as Orange County Clerk of Superior Court since 2018 and was previously Chapel Hill's mayor from 2009 to 2015 after eight years on the town council, per the NC Judicial Branch. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026; the official election filing is the only verifiable source for Mark Kleinschmidt.
Full profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Incumbent Mark Kleinschmidt, Clerk of Superior Court since 2018, is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot.
Orange County Register of Deeds
1 candidate
County ▾
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Amy Jo McLamb
DEM
Biography
McLamb has served in the Orange County Register of Deeds office for 26 years, working through every position from entry level to leadership, per the campaign site. She has implemented modernization initiatives including new software systems, electronic PIN assignment, and real-time document scanning, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Expanding fraud alert protections to cover parcel identification numbers, not just owner names
  • Continuing conservation of historical deed books, plat maps and other aging records
  • Cross-training staff to serve in every section of the office
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Incumbent Mark Chilton is retiring after 12 years. Amy Jo McLamb, the office's assistant register with 26 years there, won the March 3, 2026 Democratic primary over former county commissioner Penny Rich and is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot.
Orange County Sheriff
1 candidate
County ▾
CB
Charles Blackwood
DEM
Biography
Blackwood served 45 years with the Orange County Sheriff's Office, beginning in December 1980 and rising through the ranks to major of operations before retiring in December 2012 to run for sheriff, per the campaign site. He was elected the 47th Sheriff of Orange County and has since held multiple state-level leadership appointments, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Expanding mental health and substance abuse services
  • Responding to the opioid epidemic through innovative programs
  • Pursuing bail and bond reform alongside school safety initiatives
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Incumbent Sheriff Charles Blackwood, first elected in 2014, is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot.
Orange Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor
3 candidates
County ▾
RV
Richal Vanhook
INCUMBENT
Biography
Richal Vanhook serves as Secretary/Treasurer of the Orange County Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors, an elected seat, per Orange County government. No campaign website was found as of September 27, 2026.
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W. Chris Hogan
INCUMBENT
Biography
Hogan is a farmer from a family that has farmed north and west of Chapel Hill for nine generations, and he is an elected member of the Orange Soil and Water Conservation District board, per the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Business Hall of Fame and the county's board page. The Hall of Fame says his family has served 74 consecutive years on the district board, with his grandfather Henry Hogan before him. No campaign website was found as of September 29, 2026.
Full profile
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K. Alexander Foreman
Biography
No campaign website was found as of September 27, 2026; the official election filing is the only verifiable source for K. Alexander Foreman.
Full profile
About this race
Nonpartisan; two of the district's three elected seats are up in 2026, vote for 2. Incumbents Richal Vanhook and W. Chris Hogan are both seeking re-election against challenger K. Alexander Foreman, per the district's official board page. This contest is on the November 3, 2026 ballot.
North Carolina District Court Judge, District 18, Seat 1
1 candidate
County ▾
CT
C. Todd Roper
DEM
Biography
Roper has practiced law for 30 years in Orange and Chatham counties and was appointed a district court judge by Governor Roy Cooper in 2020, per the campaign site. He has presided over thousands of cases spanning juvenile, civil, criminal, custody and domestic violence matters, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Making balanced and impartial decisions based on the law and facts of each case
  • Working to help people caught in systemic problems regain control of their lives
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
C. Todd Roper (Democratic) is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot for North Carolina District Court Judge, District 18, Seat 1. Voters across Chatham and Orange counties vote on this seat, per North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 7A. North Carolina judicial races have been partisan since the 2018 court reorganization. The field is the State Board of Elections' certified general-election candidate list (read September 7, 2026).

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