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North Carolina's 6th congressional district

North Carolina's 6th congressional district
Map
Map
Interactive map of district boundaries
Representative
Population (2023)765,747[1]
Median household
income
$64,946[1]
Ethnicity
Cook PVID+4[2]

North Carolina's 6th congressional district is a congressional district located in the north central portion of the U.S state of North Carolina. As a result of court-mandated redistricting in 2019, it was shifted into the central Triad region and contains all of Guilford County, all of Rockingham County, most of Caswell County, and a portion of Forsyth County. The cities of Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point are located in the district.

After congressional reapportionment following the 2010 census, the district was shifted northward by the North Carolina General Assembly. From then until 2017, it included portions of Guilford, Alamance, Durham, Granville, and Orange counties, and all of Caswell, Person, Rockingham, Surry, and Stokes counties. In 2015, it was reconfigured again but remained in the same general region.

The district was represented by Mark Walker, a Republican, from 2015 until 2021. In December 2019, Walker announced that he would not run for re-election in 2020.[3] It is currently represented by Democrat Kathy Manning.

History

From 2003 to 2013 the 6th district comprised all of Moore and Randolph counties and portions of Alamance, Davidson, Guilford, and Rowan counties. Until court-mandated redistricting in 2019, the district included the entirety of Alamance County, Caswell County, Chatham County, Lee County, Person County, Randolph County, and, Rockingham County, as well as portions of Guilford County.

Prior to 2022 redistricting the 6th district included all of Guilford County and part of Forsyth.

On February 23, 2022, the North Carolina Supreme Court approved a new map which changed the 6th district boundaries to also include Caswell and Rockingham Counties.[4]

Counties

Counties in the 2023–2025 district map:

List of members representing the district

Member
(Residence)
Party Years Cong
ress
Electoral history District location
District established March 4, 1793
James Gillespie
(Kenansville)
Anti-Administration March 4, 1793 –
March 3, 1795
3rd
4th
5th
Elected in 1793.
Re-elected in 1795.
Re-elected in 1796.
Lost re-election.
Democratic-Republican March 4, 1795 –
March 3, 1799

William H. Hill
(Wilmington)
Federalist March 4, 1799 –
March 3, 1803
6th
7th
Elected in 1798.
Re-elected in 1800.
[data missing]

Nathaniel Macon
(Warrenton)
Democratic-Republican March 4, 1803 –
December 13, 1815
8th
9th
10th
11th
12th
13th
14th
Redistricted from the 5th district and re-elected in 1803.
Re-elected in 1804.
Re-elected in 1806.
Re-elected in 1808.
Re-elected in 1810.
Re-elected in 1813.
Re-elected in 1815.
Resigned when elected U.S. senator.
1803–1813
"North Carolina congressional district map (1803–13)".[5]
Vacant December 13, 1815 –
February 7, 1816
14th 1813–1843
"North Carolina congressional district map (1813–43)".[5]

Weldon N. Edwards
(Warrenton)
Democratic-Republican[a] February 7, 1816 –
March 3, 1825
14th
15th
16th
17th
18th
19th
Elected to finish Macon's term.
Re-elected in 1817.
Re-elected in 1819.
Re-elected in 1821.
Re-elected in 1823.
Re-elected in 1825.
Retired.
Jacksonian March 4, 1825 –
March 3, 1827
Daniel Turner
(Warrenton)
Jacksonian March 4, 1827 –
March 3, 1829
20th Elected in 1827.
Retired.

Robert Potter
(Oxford)
Jacksonian March 4, 1829 –
November 1831
21st
22nd
Elected in 1829.
Resigned.
Vacant November 1831 –
December 15, 1831
22nd
Micajah T. Hawkins
(Warrenton)
Jacksonian December 15, 1831 –
March 3, 1837
22nd
23rd
24th
25th
26th
Elected to finish Potter's term.
Re-elected in 1831.
Re-elected in 1833.
Re-elected in 1835.
Re-elected in 1837.
Re-elected in 1839.
[data missing]
Democratic March 4, 1837 –
March 3, 1841
Archibald H. Arrington
(Hilliardston)
Democratic March 4, 1841 –
March 3, 1843
27th Elected in 1841.
Redistricted to the 8th district.

James I. McKay
(Elizabethtown)
Democratic March 4, 1843 –
March 3, 1847
28th
29th
Redistricted from the 5th district and re-elected in 1843.
Re-elected in 1845.
Redistricted to the 7th district.
John R. J. Daniel
(Halifax)
Democratic March 4, 1847 –
March 3, 1853
30th
31st
32nd
Redistricted from the 7th district and re-elected in 1847.
Re-elected in 1849.
Re-elected in 1851.
[data missing]
Richard C. Puryear
(Huntsville)
Whig March 4, 1853 –
March 3, 1855
33rd
34th
Elected in 1853.
Re-elected in 1855.
[data missing]
Know Nothing March 4, 1855 –
March 3, 1857

Alfred M. Scales
(Madison)
Democratic March 4, 1857 –
March 3, 1859
35th Elected in 1857.
[data missing]

James M. Leach
(Lexington)
Opposition March 4, 1859 –
March 3, 1861
36th Elected in 1859.
[data missing]
Vacant March 3, 1861 –
July 20, 1868
37th
38th
39th
40th
Civil War and Reconstruction

Nathaniel Boyden
(Salisbury)
Conservative July 13, 1868 –
March 3, 1869
40th Elected to finish the short term.
[data missing]

Francis E. Shober
(Salisbury)
Democratic March 4, 1869 –
March 3, 1873
41st
42nd
Elected in 1868.
Re-elected in 1870.
[data missing]

Thomas S. Ashe
(Wadesboro)
Democratic March 4, 1873 –
March 3, 1877
43rd
44th
Elected in 1872.
Re-elected in 1874.
[data missing]

Walter L. Steele
(Rockingham)
Democratic March 4, 1877 –
March 3, 1881
45th
46th
Elected in 1876.
Re-elected in 1878.
[data missing]
Clement Dowd
(Charlotte)
Democratic March 4, 1881 –
March 3, 1885
47th
48th
Elected in 1880.
Re-elected in 1882.
[data missing]

Risden T. Bennett
(Wadesboro)
Democratic March 4, 1885 –
March 3, 1887
49th Redistricted from the At-large district and re-elected in 1884.
[data missing]
Alfred Rowland
(Lumberton)
Democratic March 4, 1887 –
March 3, 1891
50th
51st
Elected in 1886.
Re-elected in 1888.
[data missing]

Sydenham B. Alexander
(Charlotte)
Democratic March 4, 1891 –
March 3, 1895
52nd
53rd
Elected in 1890.
Re-elected in 1892.
[data missing]

James A. Lockhart
(Wadesboro)
Democratic March 4, 1895 –
June 5, 1896
54th Lost contested election.
Charles H. Martin
(Polkton)
Populist June 5, 1896 –
March 3, 1899
54th
55th
Won contested election.
Re-elected in 1896.
[data missing]

John D. Bellamy
(Wilmington)
Democratic March 4, 1899 –
March 3, 1903
56th
57th
Elected in 1898.
Re-elected in 1900.
[data missing]

Gilbert B. Patterson
(Maxton)
Democratic March 4, 1903 –
March 3, 1907
58th
59th
Elected in 1902.
Re-elected in 1904.
[data missing]

Hannibal L. Godwin
(Dunn)
Democratic March 4, 1907 –
March 3, 1921
60th
61st
62nd
63rd
64th
65th
66th
Elected in 1906.
Re-elected in 1908.
Re-elected in 1910.
Re-elected in 1912.
Re-elected in 1914.
Re-elected in 1916.
Re-elected in 1918.
[data missing]

Homer L. Lyon
(Whiteville)
Democratic March 4, 1921 –
March 3, 1929
67th
68th
69th
70th
Elected in 1920.
Re-elected in 1922.
Re-elected in 1924.
Re-elected in 1926.
[data missing]

J. Bayard Clark
(Fayetteville)
Democratic March 4, 1929 –
March 3, 1933
71st
72nd
Elected in 1928.
Re-elected in 1930.
Redistricted to the 7th district.

William B. Umstead
(Durham)
Democratic March 4, 1933 –
January 3, 1939
73rd
74th
75th
Elected in 1932.
Re-elected in 1934.
Re-elected in 1936.
Retired.

Carl T. Durham
(Chapel Hill)
Democratic January 3, 1939 –
January 3, 1961
76th
77th
78th
79th
80th
81st
82nd
83rd
84th
85th
86th
Elected in 1938.
Re-elected in 1940.
Re-elected in 1942.
Re-elected in 1944.
Re-elected in 1946.
Re-elected in 1948.
Re-elected in 1950.
Re-elected in 1952.
Re-elected in 1954.
Re-elected in 1956.
Re-elected in 1958.
Retired.

Horace R. Kornegay
(Greensboro)
Democratic January 3, 1961 –
January 3, 1969
87th
88th
89th
90th
Elected in 1960.
Re-elected in 1962.
Re-elected in 1964.
Re-elected in 1966.
Retired.

L. Richardson Preyer
(Greensboro)
Democratic January 3, 1969 –
January 3, 1981
91st
92nd
93rd
94th
95th
96th
Elected in 1968.
Re-elected in 1970.
Re-elected in 1972.
Re-elected in 1974.
Re-elected in 1976.
Re-elected in 1978.
Lost re-election.

Walter E. Johnston, III
(Greensboro)
Republican January 3, 1981 –
January 3, 1983
97th Elected in 1980.
Lost re-election.

Robin Britt
(Greensboro)
Democratic January 3, 1983 –
January 3, 1985
98th Elected in 1982.
Lost re-election.
1983–1993
[data missing]

Howard Coble
(Greensboro)
Republican January 3, 1985 –
January 3, 2015
99th
100th
101st
102nd
103rd
104th
105th
106th
107th
108th
109th
110th
111th
112th
113th
Elected in 1984.
Re-elected in 1986.
Re-elected in 1988.
Re-elected in 1990.
Re-elected in 1992.
Re-elected in 1994.
Re-elected in 1996.
Re-elected in 1998.
Re-elected in 2000.
Re-elected in 2002.
Re-elected in 2004.
Re-elected in 2006.
Re-elected in 2008.
Re-elected in 2010.
Re-elected in 2012.
Retired.
1993–2003
[data missing]
2003–2013
2003-2013
2003-2013
2013–2017
2013-2017
2013-2017

Mark Walker
(Greensboro)
Republican January 3, 2015 –
January 3, 2021
114th
115th
116th
Elected in 2014.
Re-elected in 2016.
Re-elected in 2018.
Retired.
2017–2021

Kathy Manning
(Greensboro)
Democratic January 3, 2021 –
present
117th
118th
Elected in 2020.
Re-elected in 2022.
Redistricted to the 5th district and retiring at end of term.
2021–2023
2021-2023
2021-2023
2023–2025
District boundaries from 2023 to 2025


Addison McDowell (elect)
(Advance)
Republican January 3, 2025 Elected in 2024.

Past election results

2012

2012 North Carolina's 6th congressional district election[6]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Howard Coble (incumbent) 222,116 60.9
Democratic Anthony Foriest 142,467 39.1
Total votes 364,583 100.0
Republican hold

2014

2014 North Carolina's 6th congressional district election[7]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mark Walker 147,312 58.7
Democratic Laura Fjeld 103,758 41.3
Total votes 251,070 100.0
Republican hold

2016

2016 North Carolina's 6th congressional district election[8]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mark Walker (incumbent) 207,983 59.2
Democratic Pete Glidewell 143,167 40.8
Total votes 351,150 100.0
Republican hold

2018

2018 North Carolina's 6th congressional district election[9]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mark Walker (incumbent) 160,709 56.5
Democratic Ryan Watts 123,651 43.5
Total votes 284,360 100.0
Republican hold

2020

2020 North Carolina's 6th congressional district election[10]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Kathy Manning 253,531 62.3
Republican Lee Haywood 153,598 37.7
Total votes 407,129 100.0
Democratic gain from Republican

2022

2022 North Carolina's 6th congressional district election[11]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Kathy Manning (incumbent) 139,553 53.88%
Republican Christian Castelli 116,635 45.03%
Libertarian Thomas Watercott 2,810 1.09%
Total votes 256,950 100%
Democratic hold

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Supported the Crawford faction in the 1824 United States presidential election.

References

  1. ^ a b "My Congressional District". census.gov. U.S. Census Bureau Center for New Media and Promotion (CNMP).
  2. ^ "2022 Cook PVI: District Map and List". Cook Political Report. July 12, 2022. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  3. ^ Murphy, Brian (December 16, 2019). "His House district was made a Democratic one. Here's what's next for Mark Walker". The Herald-Sun. Durham, North Carolina. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
  4. ^ Doule, Steve (February 23, 2022). "Check out new election maps: NC Supreme Court rejects appeals, approves special masters' districts". WGHP. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
  5. ^ a b "Data Courtesy of Jeffrey B. Lewis, Brandon DeVine, and Lincoln Pritcher with Kenneth C. Martis". United States Congressional District Shapefiles.
  6. ^ "North Carolina General Elections Results 2012". North Carolina State Board of Elections. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  7. ^ "North Carolina Official General Election Results". North Carolina State Board of Elections. November 4, 2014. Archived from the original on January 27, 2015. Retrieved January 23, 2015.
  8. ^ "North Carolina Official General Election Results". North Carolina State Board of Elections. November 8, 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  9. ^ "District 6, North Carolina State Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement". North Carolina State Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
  10. ^ "State Composite Abstract Report - Contest.pdf" (PDF). North Carolina State Board of Elections. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
  11. ^ "NC SBE Contest Results". er.ncsbe.gov. Retrieved January 2, 2023.

Further reading

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