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House District 113

Rutherford, Henderson, Polk & McDowell counties · 2026
Likely R
Partisan baseline (2024)
R+30.8
runs 29.1 pts more Republican than NC overall · moving toward Republicans since 2018
2024 result
R+33.4
won by Johnson (R)
John Morgan
Democrat · Candidate
  • Morgan is a former U.S. Air Force pilot and airline captain who served as a city commissioner in Saluda, where he has lived since 1997.
  • He served 21 years in the Air Force, with flying assignments that included Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and later worked as a captain and flight instructor at Atlas Air.
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Rep. Jake Johnson
Republican · Incumbent
  • Works in real estate.
  • Has served more than three terms representing Henderson, McDowell, Polk, and Rutherford counties.
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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 113, from the Census American Community Survey (2020-2024). The dark tick on each bar marks North Carolina overall.

Median household income
$61,939
NC
▼ vs NC · NC $75k
Bachelor's degree or higher
30%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 36%
Poverty rate
16%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 13%
Homeownership
76%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 67%
Unemployment
5.1%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 4.7%
Uninsured rate
11%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 10%
Top communities: Rutherfordton 19% · Forest City 14% · Hendersonville 11% · Flat Rock 10% · Tryon 8%

Who registers vs. who votes

Each group's share of registered voters against its share of those who actually voted in 2024. About 72k voters are registered here; 53,297 voted in 2024.

White
89%
92%
Black
6.2%
5.1%
Hispanic
2.6%
2.0%
Asian
0.4%
0.3%
American Indian
0.1%
0.1%
Other
1.3%
1.0%
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 (84% 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 33% to 36%.

Precinct detail

28 precincts.

About this seat

HD-113 is rated Likely R from its 2024 partisan baseline of R+30.8. 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 0.5 points of vote share here since 2018, moving the seat’s two-way margin 1.1 points their way.

Campaign money

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Morgan (D) $0 cash$19K cash Johnson (R)
Johnson has a committee on file; Morgan has no machine-readable figures (nothing filed yet, or filed on paper). Raised this cycle: Morgan $0 / Johnson $278K.
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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