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28376

Who is on the ballot in 28376?

Hoke County, NC

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

13 races on your November 3 ballot. Jump to:
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U.S. House, North Carolina District 9
2 candidates
Federal ▾
Richard Hudson portrait
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Richard Hudson
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Hudson has represented North Carolina's 9th District since 2013 and chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee, per the campaign site. He holds a bachelor's degree from UNC Charlotte, where he served as student body president, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Support the economy and veterans
  • Support energy policy and Second Amendment rights
Per the campaign site.
Key voting record
Voted yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the House 218-214 in July 2025. Supported
Voted yes 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. Supported
Voted yes on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026, which passed the House 231-196 in September 2025. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
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Richard N. Ojeda II
DEM
Biography
Ojeda is a retired Army major with 24 years of service, including tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, who later served in the West Virginia State Senate, per the campaign site. He holds a degree from West Virginia State University and has relocated to North Carolina, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Support veterans' care and education
  • Support environmental protection and immigration reform
  • Protect Social Security and support working families
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull 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 ▾
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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
Campaign siteFull profile
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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.
Campaign siteFull profile
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.
Campaign siteFull profile
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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.
Campaign siteFull profile
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
Statewide ▾
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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.
Full profile

Countywide races in Hoke County

ZIP 28376 sits in Hoke County, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All Hoke County races (6).

North Carolina Superior Court Judge, District 29, Seat 1
1 candidate
County ▾
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Michael (Mike) Stone
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Michael (Mike) Stone is the Senior Resident Superior Court Judge serving Moore and Hoke counties, elected to the bench in 2018 after previously serving as a Hoke County District Court judge, per the North Carolina Judicial Branch. Before his judicial career he spent twenty years as an attorney in private practice handling cases in Scotland, Hoke and Cumberland counties, and he earned his law degree from the Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, per The Pilot. No campaign website was found as of September 27, 2026.
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
Michael (Mike) Stone (Republican) is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot for North Carolina Superior Court Judge, District 29, Seat 1. Voters across Hoke and Moore 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).
North Carolina District Court Judge, District 29, Seat 1
2 candidates
County ▾
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Kimberly Furr Davis
REP
Biography
Kimberly Furr Davis is a candidate for District Court Judge for Moore and Hoke Counties, Judicial District 29, per her campaign site. Davis began her legal career in 2008 as a district court prosecutor and became a felony drug crimes prosecutor in 2012, later serving as a Special Assistant federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District, per her campaign site. She earned her undergraduate degree from UNC Chapel Hill and her law degree from Campbell University, per the same source.
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Tron Faulk Ross
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Tron Faulk Ross was appointed by Governor Josh Stein as a District Court Judge for District 29, covering Hoke and Moore counties, in April 2025, per The Pilot. She previously served as an associate county attorney for Moore County and worked as an attorney for the Lee County Department of Social Services. Ross received her bachelor's degree from UNC Charlotte and her law degree from UNC-Chapel Hill, and has been a licensed attorney since 1998, per her campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
About this race
Kimberly Furr Davis (Republican) and Tron Faulk Ross (Democratic) meet on the November 3, 2026 ballot for North Carolina District Court Judge, District 29, Seat 1. Voters across Hoke and Moore counties vote on this seat, per North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 7A. State law limits who may run for this seat to a resident of Hoke or Moore County, but every voter in the district still elects it. 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).
North Carolina District Court Judge, District 29, Seat 2
1 candidate
County ▾
BT
Beth Tanner
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Beth Tanner is a District Court Judge serving Moore and Hoke counties, seeking a new term in 2026, per her campaign site. She served as Associate Director for the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission from 2017 to 2022 and continues to serve as a Commissioner on that body, per the commission's official site. In December 2022 she earned an LL.M. from Nottingham Law School through a joint program with Campbell Law, and she has gained a juvenile certification as a specialized juvenile court judge and is involved in community programs such as mock trial and teen court, per her 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
Beth Tanner (Republican) is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot for North Carolina District Court Judge, District 29, Seat 2. Voters across Hoke and Moore counties vote on this seat, per North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 7A. State law limits who may run for this seat to a resident of Hoke or Moore County, but every voter in the district still elects it. 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).
North Carolina District Court Judge, District 29, Seat 5
1 candidate
County ▾
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Yohan Namkung
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Yohan Namkung was appointed District Court Judge in Judicial District 29, serving Hoke and Moore counties, by Governor Roy Cooper in March 2024, per the Governor's Office. Namkung previously served as an Assistant District Attorney in the 29th Judicial District and serves as a Captain and Judge Advocate Trial Counsel in the North Carolina Army National Guard, per the same source. No campaign website was found as of September 27, 2026.
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
Yohan Namkung (Republican) is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot for North Carolina District Court Judge, District 29, Seat 5. Voters across Hoke and Moore counties vote on this seat, per North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 7A. State law limits who may run for this seat to a resident of Hoke County, but every voter in the district still elects it. 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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