The filing deadline for legislative, congressional, council of state, judicial, and local offices for the May 8 primary ended at noon today. By my count, 71 out of the 170 districts comprising the N.C. General Assembly don’t have either a Democrat or Republican challenger.
In the Senate, a total of 19 districts don’t have a major-party challenger: 12 without a Democrat and seven without a Republican. In the House, a total of 52 districts are without a challenger: 29 without a Democrat and 23 without a Republican.
The fact that a particular candidate doesn’t have a challenger from the opposing major party doesn’t mean he or she is unopposed. In a few districts, Libertarians have filed.
Here is a district list for each chamber. I’ve also included the partisan leaning as calculated by the N.C. FreeEnterprise Foundation.
Senate
Districts where a Democrat hasn’t filed:
- District 6 (lean R)
- District 7 (lean R)
- District 10 (lean R)
- District 24 (lean R)
- District 29 (strong R)
- District 33 (strong R)
- District 34 (strong R)
- District 35 (strong R)
- District 36 (strong R)
- District 41 (lean R)
- District 43 (strong R)
- District 48 (strong R)
Districts where a Republican hasn’t filed:
- District 3 (strong D)
- District 5 (strong D)
- District 14 (strong D)
- District 16 (strong D)
- District 20 (strong D)
- District 21 (strong D)
- District 28 (strong D)
House
Districts where a Democrat hasn’t filed:
- District 13 (strong R)
- District 14 (lean R)
- District 15 (lean R)
- District 16 (lean R)
- District 25 (strong R)
- District 28 (strong R)
- District 52 (strong R)
- District 53 (lean R)
- District 59 (strong R)
- District 69 (strong R)
- District 70 (strong R)
- District 75 (lean R)
- District 78 (strong R)
- District 81 (strong R)
- District 82 (strong R)
- District 87 (strong R)
- District 89 (strong R)
- District 90 (strong R)
- District 94 (strong R)
- District 95 (strong R)
- District 97 (strong R)
- District 103 (strong R)
- District 104 (strong R)
- District 105 (strong R)
- District 108 (strong R)
- District 109 (strong R)
- District 111 (strong R)
- District 117 (strong R)
- District 120 (strong R)
Districts where a Republican hasn’t filed:
- District 5 (strong D)
- District 7 (strong D)
- District 11 (strong D)
- District 21 (strong D)
- District 22 (lean D)
- District 23 (strong D)
- District 24 (strong D)
- District 27 (strong D)
- District 29 (strong D)
- District 30 (strong D)
- District 31 (strong D)
- District 33 (strong D)
- District 34 (strong D)
- District 38 (strong D)
- District 39 (lean D)
- District 47 (strong D)
- District 48 (strong D)
- District 60 (strong D)
- District 66 (lean D)
- District 99 (strong D)
- District 101 (strong D)
- District 106 (strong D)
- District 114 (strong D)
Note: The candidate lists aren’t official yet, so these numbers might shift.