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House District 1

Currituck, Dare, Perquimans, Chowan, Tyrrell & Washington counties · 2026
Likely R
Partisan baseline (2024)
R+28.5
runs 26.8 pts more Republican than NC overall · moving toward Republicans since 2018
2024 result
R+30.0
won by Goodwin (R)
Miriam Rollin
Democrat · Candidate
  • Serves on the Town of Duck Board of Adjustment, with a term running through July 2028.
Rep. Edward C. Goodwin
Republican · Incumbent
  • Retired law enforcement professional who served as a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
  • Serving his fourth term in the state House after U.S. Air Force service from 1972 to 1976.
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Election night results

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Live returns and a precinct map for this race on Nov. 3.

Early voting

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Ballots cast so far in this district, in person and by mail. Updated every morning.

Who lives here

The people of House District 1, from the Census American Community Survey (2020-2024). The dark tick on each bar marks North Carolina overall.

Median household income
$75,263
NC
▼ vs NC · NC $75k
Bachelor's degree or higher
29%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 36%
Poverty rate
12%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 13%
Homeownership
78%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 67%
Unemployment
5.4%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 4.7%
Uninsured rate
9%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 10%
Top communities: Moyock 17% · Hertford 14% · Edenton 13% · Plymouth 7% · Kill Devil Hills 6%

Who registers vs. who votes

Each group's share of registered voters against its share of those who actually voted in 2024. About 70k voters are registered here; 50,660 voted in 2024.

White
81%
83%
Black
16%
14%
Hispanic
1.1%
0.8%
Asian
0.4%
0.3%
American Indian
0.1%
0.2%
Other
1.7%
1.1%
Registered (2024)Voted (2024)
Voter race and ethnicity are self-reported at registration; voters without a designation (6% here) are excluded from the voted-side shares. Source: NCSBE voter file, 2024.

How this seat has moved

Actual result (solid)MRPI composite (dashed)Shaded = midterm
Hollow points are estimates, not measured results: 2022 (100% estimated) modeled - no contested legislative race covered enough of this ground to measure, so most of the value is estimated from statewide races on the same ballot. See Methodology.

How far this district swings

Across these cycles the Democratic share of the two-party vote here has ranged from 35% to 42%.

Precinct detail

43 precincts.

About this seat

HD-1 is rated Likely R from its 2024 partisan baseline of R+28.5. Districts this far from even are not competitive in a typical cycle - the outcome tracks the district’s underlying partisanship rather than individual campaigns. Republicans have gained 3.4 points of vote share here since 2018, moving the seat’s two-way margin 6.8 points their way.

Campaign money

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Rollin (D) $0 cash$-22K cash Goodwin (R)
Goodwin has a committee on file; Rollin has no machine-readable figures (nothing filed yet, or filed on paper). Raised this cycle: Rollin $0 / Goodwin $26K.
Actual legislative results, observed except where marked · NCSBE 2018–2024 · boundaries: Redistricting Data Hub (redistrictingdatahub.org) · demographics: Census ACS 2020–2024 · voter file: NCSBE
Data as of October 29, 2026 · campaign finance last refreshed August 20, 2026
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