There is one U.S. Senate race in North Carolina. North Carolina will elect 14 members to its U.S. House delegation.
Three women, all Republicans, are running for the open U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina: Elizabeth Temple, Michele Morrow, and Margot Dupre. Campaign finance data were not available for these women candidates. The senate race in North Carolina is rated by The Cook Political Report as one of the most competitive nationally. Michael Whatley leads the Republican field with over $2.2M raised and Roy Cooper the Democrats with nearly $8.3M.
There are no open U.S. House seats. Three Democratic women--Deborah Ross (NC-2), Valeria Foushee (NC-4), and Alma Adams (NC-12)--are up for reelection from North Carolina. One Republican woman, Virginia Foxx (NC-5), is also running for reelection. Foxx has raised the most of the women incumbents with $843,639. Foushee has raised the greatest share of funds from small contributions of the women incumbents with 28%.
Republican women running for the U.S. House in North Carolina have the highest average total raised and Democratic women have the lowest average total raised looking across the candidates by gender and party groups. Laurie Buckhout (NC-1), a Republican, has raised the most of all the women running as challengers; she has raised over $2M.
Of challenger candidates, Republican women also have the highest average proportion of self-financed contributions compared with Republican men and Democratic candidates. Buckhout, who is almost entirely self-financing her campaign, is driving the average.
Democratic women running for Congress as challengers have the highest average proportion of small contributions of the gender and party candidate groups with 43%. There are few gender differences in average proportion of funds from small contributions within either party for incumbent candidates.
This statistic is the average total amount raised to date from individuals (including self-financing).
This statistic is the average amount from self-financing as a proportion of total raised (from individuals including the candidate) by candidate subgroup. Primary challengers to incumbents are excluded.
This statistic is the average amount of contributions $200 or less as a proportion of total raised (excluding self-financed contributions) by candidate subgroup.