U.S. House - NC-05 · North Carolina · 2026
General election · 3 on the certified November ballot · Incumbent running
Result
CalledFlip: R to DChuck Hubbard (D) won this race with 48.7% of the vote, 0.1 points ahead, defeating incumbent Virginia Foxx.
- Chuck HubbardDemocraticWinner48.7%139,788 votes
- Virginia FoxxRepublican48.6%139,453 votes
- Robert B. LuffmanLibertarian2.6%7,579 votes
- Margin
- 335 votes (0.1 points)
- Called
- First seen here, Nov 10, 12:39 PM ET
- Seat
- Changed party: held by Virginia Foxx (R)
- Last updated
- Nov 11, 1:34 PM ET
Called it: miss Our locked call before polls closed was R; the winner is D. See every locked call
Unofficial until the state certifies the result.
Before the election
Polls, ratings and the Vugol Tensor below were published before votes were counted. They are not results.
Model rating Leans Republican (Tilting) on the Vugol Vector model, a snapshot of today, not a probability.
No polls on file for this race. Model inputs: 4 of 7, updated today. Page updated 2026-11-14. Sources · What is validated
ExperimentalNews attention 48/100, how much coverage the race gets, not who is winning. Updated 6 days ago. How it works
On the November ballot (3)
Certified by the state, checked 2026-11-13.
Also on the certified ballot: Robert B. Luffman (Libertarian)
Not on the certified ballot (2)
Filed or ran for this seat, but not on the state’s certified list for November.
Official source: https://dl.ncsbe.gov/Elections/2026/Candidate%20Filing/Candidate_Listing_2026.csv
Early vote in North Carolina
2,837,524 ballots cast statewide as of 2026-11-14 · registered Democrats 38.4%, Republicans 26.1%, unaffiliated 35.2%. Turnout by registration, not votes; never part of the rating. Full tracker →
Latest verified field polling
Verified = published by the pollster that conducted it, with a public source we link to.
No verified poll has been published for this race. The Vugol Vector call from our model is below, it is not a poll.
Polling average
No polls on file for this race yet. See latest polls across every race.
Campaign money (FEC)
Candidate committee totals for the cycle from the Federal Election Commission (public domain), as of each committee's latest report.
| Candidate | Raised | Spent | Cash on hand | Through |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Ann Foxx | $2,189,052 | $1,610,250 | $3,490,070 | 2026-10-14 |
| Chuck Hubbard | $863,260 | $718,646 | $152,010 | 2026-10-14 |
| David Clayton | $70,490 | $61,429 | $9,061 | 2026-09-30 |
| Kyah Creekmore | $7,430 | $6,602 | $837 | 2026-02-11 |
Ad spending (FEC)
What each campaign reported paying for ads, and what outside groups (super PACs, PACs and parties) reported spending for and against each candidate. Federal Election Commission filings, public domain.
| Candidate | Campaign's own ads | Outside groups for | Outside groups against |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Ann Foxx | $81K | $340K | |
| Chuck Hubbard | $6,501 | $36K | |
| David Clayton | $0 | ||
| Kyah Creekmore | $0 |
Biggest outside spenders
- Virginia Ann Foxx. Against: AB PAC $340K
- Chuck Hubbard. For: AB PAC $36K
Outside groups: 24- and 48-hour independent expenditure reports for the 2026 primary and general, through 2026-10-05, each expenditure counted once after amendments; "ads" is TV, radio, digital and other media, and the rest is mail, phones, canvassing and similar. Campaign's own ads: TV, radio, digital, other media and ad production in the campaign committee's itemized payments, as the campaign described them, from the reports the FEC has processed (latest through 2026-09-30); newer reports appear as the FEC processes them. These are amounts committees reported paying, not airtime tracked by ad-monitoring firms, so very recent buys and future reservations may not show yet. Parser fec-ad-spend-1.0.0.
Results
Vote counts from the state’s own results feed, read every minute while votes are counted. Counts change until the state certifies.
general election · state results feed, unofficial
| Chuck Hubbard won | 139,788 | 48.7% |
| Chuck Hubbard won | 139,672 | 48.7% |
| Virginia Foxx | 139,453 | 48.6% |
| Virginia Foxx (incumbent) | 139,347 | 48.6% |
| Robert B. Luffman | 7,579 | 2.6% |
| Robert Luffman | 7,574 | 2.6% |
Chuck Hubbard leads by 335 votes. 100% of reporting units counted.
Democratic primary
| Chuck Hubbard won | 25,655 | 56.7% |
| Kyah Creekmore | 19,585 | 43.3% |
Republican primary
| Virginia Foxx (incumbent) won | 53,627 | 74.5% |
| Joey Osborne | 7,934 | 11.0% |
| Steve Girard | 6,404 | 8.9% |
| Roman "Chad" Williams | 3,979 | 5.5% |
Source: the state's official results feed, retrieved 2026-11-11 · parser state-feed-1.0.0
Key dates
Official federal election dates for this state from the FEC. Registration deadlines and early voting: see the state election office.
- 2026-03-03, Primary election: U.S. House
- 2026-05-12, Runoff: U.S. House
- 2026-11-03, General election: U.S. House
Source: FEC election dates (public domain).
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Vugol Attention 48 Vugol Vector R · Tilting
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Centre R+6.9. Four times in five the result lands between D+2.5 and R+16.3; nine in ten between D+5.2 and R+19.0. Chance the Democrat finishes ahead: 17%.
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Sources
- Roster, official filings; fundraising from FEC datapoints where on file (https://api.open.fec.gov/).
- Vugol Attention inputs, Wikipedia pageviews (https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/) and GDELT news volume and tone (https://www.gdeltproject.org/).
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