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House District 52

Richmond & Moore counties · 2026
Likely R
Partisan baseline (2024)
R+17.2
runs 15.5 pts more Republican than NC overall · moving toward Republicans since 2018
2024 result
R+22.2
won by Moss (R)
Joe Parfitt
Democrat · Candidate
  • US Army veteran of more than 20 years who now teaches in Moore County Schools.
  • Served as an airborne infantryman and civil affairs operator, with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Rep. Ben Moss
Republican · Incumbent
  • Railroad engineer with CSX, representing Moore and Richmond counties.
  • Serving his third term in the NC House.
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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 52, from the Census American Community Survey (2020-2024). The dark tick on each bar marks North Carolina overall.

Median household income
$62,791
NC
▼ vs NC · NC $75k
Bachelor's degree or higher
30%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 36%
Poverty rate
17%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 13%
Homeownership
67%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 67%
Unemployment
7.6%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 4.7%
Uninsured rate
9%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 10%
Top communities: Rockingham 27% · Southern Pines 25% · Aberdeen 14% · Hamlet 12% · Whispering Pines 6%

Who registers vs. who votes

Each group's share of registered voters against its share of those who actually voted in 2024. About 62k voters are registered here; 44,005 voted in 2024.

White
71%
76%
Black
22%
19%
Hispanic
2.6%
2.0%
Asian
0.9%
0.8%
American Indian
0.9%
0.8%
Other
2.1%
1.3%
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 (98% 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 39% to 50%.

Precinct detail

26 precincts.

About this seat

HD-52 is rated Likely R from its 2024 partisan baseline of R+17.2. 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 3.3 points of vote share here since 2018, moving the seat’s two-way margin 6.5 points their way.

Campaign money

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Parfitt (D) $2K cash$27K cash Moss (R)
Moss holds 18.1x the cash on hand. Raised this cycle: Parfitt $9K / Moss $50K.
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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