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House District 55

Union & Anson counties · 2026
Likely ROpen seat
Partisan baseline (2024)
R+23.3
runs 21.7 pts more Republican than NC overall · moving toward Republicans since 2018
2024 result
R+26.0
won by Brody (R)
John J. Kirkpatrick IV
Democrat · Candidate
  • Member of the Union County Board of Education, representing the board's District 1.
  • First appointed to the school board seat in 2021, he won election to it in 2022.
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Clancy Baucom
Republican · Candidate
  • Union County commissioner.
  • Union County native who announced his House bid in August 2025 after nearly two years on the board of commissioners.
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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 55, from the Census American Community Survey (2020-2024). The dark tick on each bar marks North Carolina overall.

Median household income
$65,931
NC
▼ vs NC · NC $75k
Bachelor's degree or higher
18%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 36%
Poverty rate
15%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 13%
Homeownership
71%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 67%
Unemployment
4.9%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 4.7%
Uninsured rate
14%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 10%
Top communities: Monroe 45% · Wadesboro 15% · Marshville 14% · Wingate 10% · Polkton 4%

Who registers vs. who votes

Each group's share of registered voters against its share of those who actually voted in 2024. About 57k voters are registered here; 40,095 voted in 2024.

White
63%
70%
Black
28%
24%
Hispanic
5.9%
3.9%
Asian
0.5%
0.4%
American Indian
0.2%
0.2%
Other
2.3%
1.1%
Registered (2024)Voted (2024)
Voter race and ethnicity are self-reported at registration; voters without a designation (12% 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 (90% 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 37% to 42%.

Precinct detail

27 precincts.

About this seat

HD-55 is rated Likely R from its 2024 partisan baseline of R+23.3. 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 3.8 points of vote share here since 2018, moving the seat’s two-way margin 7.5 points their way.

Campaign money

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Kirkpatrick (D) $3K cash$28K cash Baucom (R)
Baucom holds 10.8x the cash on hand. Raised this cycle: Kirkpatrick $4K / Baucom $73K.
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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