We’re questioning candidates in 170 districts across NC, and making their answers free
As part of our 2022 election coverage, we sent out hundreds of candidate questionnaires for all 170 races for the North Carolina General Assembly. Compiling these responses is a lengthy process, but a grant from the American Press Institute is helping make this special coverage possible.
We’re calling it Project 170.
What makes this effort unique: All of the questionnaires will be available to local publications across the state for free, in an effort to help inform North Carolina voters this election season.
The questionnaires will also be free at newsobserver.com, heraldsun.com and charlotteobserver.com, without a subscription. But please consider subscribing to help make this coverage possible. Subscribers will get access to more Project 170 stories about the candidates, the state of play in the legislative elections and what it means for the balance of power in North Carolina. And we’ll keep you up to date with breaking news.
The N&O is one of 31 news organizations that received a grant from the American Press Institute’s Election Coverage & Community Listening Fund.
Kyle Ingram, a UNC-Chapel Hill journalism senior who was an intern on The N&O politics team in the summer of 2022, is leading the project.
On our latest Under the Dome politics podcast, Ingram talked with N&O politics reporter Dawn Vaughan about Project 170 and shared some key information from three of the legislative races.
- House District 37:
Covers Holly Springs, Fuquay-Varina and some of Apex.
Erin Pare (R, incumbent): Priorities include lower taxes and inflation, school choice, funding school resource officers, and transportation and infrastructure.
Christine Kelly (D): Priorities include education funding, environmental issues, and independent redistricting and voter access. House District 54:
Covers Chatham and Randolph counties.
Walter Petty (R): Priorities include enhancing education funding, supporting a parents’ bill of rights, and more funding for law enforcement and infrastructure.
Robert Reives (D, incumbent): Priorities include tax cuts, funding education and Medicaid expansion.
Senate District 39:
Covers the southwestern part of Mecklenburg County.
Mark Robeson (R): Priorities include law enforcement and public safety, budget handling and county tax appropriation.
DeAndrea Salvador (D, incumbent): Priorities include strengthening education, the economy, public health and safety, and infrastructure.
Listen to Vaughan and Ingram’s conversation to learn more about those races, Project 170 and more to know about the General Assembly elections.
And stay tuned to the end for our picks for Headliner of the Week.
Under the Dome is available at campsite.bio/underthedome or wherever you get your podcasts.
Readers can use the General Assembly’s “Find your legislators” tool to find out which state House and Senate districts they’ll be voting in.
Questionnaires completed for NC House races
District 2 (Durham and Person counties): Larry Yarborough
District 4 (Duplin and Wayne counties): Wesley Boykin
District 9 (Pitt County): Timothy Reeder
District 11 (Wake County): Allison Dahle
District 17 (Brunswick County): Eric Terashima
District 18 (New Hanover County): John Hinnant and Deb Butler
District 20 (New Hanover County): Amy Block DeLoach
District 21 (Wake County): Gerard Falzon, Ya Liu and Joshua Morris
District 23 (Bertie, Edgecombe and Martin counties): James Proctor
District 26 (Johnston County): Linda Bennett
District 28 (Johnston County): Wendy Ella May
District 29 (Durham County): Vernetta Alston
District 30 (Durham County): Marcia Morey
District 31 (Durham County): Sean Haugh and Zack Hawkins
District 33 (Wake County): Chris Costello and Rosa Gill
District 34 (Wake County): Kat McDonald and Tim Longest
District 35 (Wake County): Terence Everitt and Fred Von Canon
District 36 (Wake County): Julie von Haefen, Kyle Ward and John Harris
District 37 (Wake County): Erin Pare and Christine Kelly
District 38 (Wake County): Christopher Mizelle and Abe Jones
District 39 (Wake County): James Roberson
District 40 (Wake County): Joe John
District 41 (Wake County): Maria Cervania
District 42 (Cumberland County): Marvin Lucas
District 48 (Hoke and Scotland counties): Melissa Swarbrick
District 49 (Wake County): Michael Oakes and Cynthia Ball
District 50 (Caswell and Orange counties): Renee Price
District 51 (Lee and Moore counties): Malcolm Hall
District 53 (Harnett and Johnston counties): Kevin Thurman
District 54 (Chatham and Randolph counties): Robert Reives and Walter Petty
District 56 (Orange County): Allen Buansi
District 57 (Guilford County): Ashton Clemmons
District 60 (Guilford County): Cecil Brockman
District 61 (Guilford County): Pricey Harrison
District 62 (Guilford County): Brandon Gray
District 63 (Alamance County): Ricky Hurtado
District 64 (Alamance County): Ron Osborne
District 65 (Rockingham County): Reece Pyrtle and Jay Donecker
District 66 (Wake County): Sarah Crawford
District 69 (Union County): Leigh Coulter
District 70 (Randolph County): Susie Lee Scott
District 71 (Forsyth County): Kanika Brown
District 72 (Forsyth County): Amber Baker
District 78 (Moore and Randolph counties): Erik Davis
District 88 (Mecklenburg County): Mary Belk
District 92 (Mecklenburg County): Terry Brown
District 93 (Alleghany, Ashe and Watauga counties): Ben Massey
District 98 (Mecklenburg County): Christy Clark
District 99 (Mecklenburg County): Nasif Majeed
District 100 (Mecklenburg County): John Autry
District 101 (Mecklenburg County): Carolyn Logan
District 102 (Mecklenburg County): Cynthia Clementi and Becky Carney
District 103 (Mecklenburg County): Laura Budd
District 104 (Mecklenburg County): Brandon Lofton
District 105 (Mecklenburg County): Joshua Niday and Wesley Harris
District 106 (Mecklenburg County): Carla Cunningham
District 107 (Mecklenburg County): Kelly Alexander and Mark Alan Cook
District 114 (Buncombe County): J. Eric Ager
District 115 (Buncombe County): Lindsey Prather
District 116 (Buncombe County): Mollie Rose and Caleb Rudow
District 117 (Henderson County): Michael Greer O’Shea
Questionnaires completed for NC Senate races
District 3 (Bertie, Camden, Currituck, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Martin, Northampton, Tyrrell and Warren counties): Valerie Jordan
District 4 (Green, Wayne and Wilson counties): Milton Fitch
District 5 (Edgecombe and Pitt counties): Karen Kozel
District 10 (Johnston County): Gettys Cohen Jr.
District 11 (Franklin, Nash and Vance counties): Mark Speed
District 12 (Harnett, Lee and Sampson counties): Richard Chapman
District 13 (Wake County): Lisa Grafstein, Michael Munger and David Bankert
District 14 (Wake County): Chris Baker and Dan Blue
District 15 (Wake County): Jay Chaudhuri
District 16 (Wake County): Gale Adcock, James Powers, Michael Trudeau and Dee Watson
District 17 (Wake County): Mark Cavaliero, Sydney Batch and Patrick Bowersox
District 18 (Granville and Wake counties): E.C. Sykes, Ryan Brown and Mary Wills Bode
District 19 (Cumberland County): Val Applewhite
District 20 (Chatham and Durham counties): Alvin Reed and Natalie Murdock
District 21 (Cumberland and Moore counties): Frank McNeill
District 22 (Durham County): Larry Coleman
District 23 (Caswell, Orange and Person counties): Graig Meyer and Landon Woods
District 25 (Alamance and Randolph counties): Sean Ewing
District 27 (Guilford County): Richard Sessoms and Michael Garrett
District 28 (Guilford County): Gladys Robinson and Paul Schumacher
District 32 (Forsyth County): George Ware
District 34 (Cabarrus County): Keshia Sandidge
District 38 (Mecklenburg County): Mujtaba Mohammed
District 39 (Mecklenburg County): DeAndrea Salvador and Mark Robeson
District 40 (Mecklenburg County): Bobbie Shields and Joyce Waddell
District 41 (Mecklenburg County): Natasha Marcus
District 42 (Mecklenburg County): Rachel Hunt
District 46 (Buncombe, Burke and McDowell counties): Billy Martin
District 50 (Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain and Transylvania counties): Karen Burnette McCracken and Kevin Corbin
.This story was originally published October 3, 2022 at 4:18 PM with the headline "We’re questioning candidates in 170 districts across NC, and making their answers free."
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