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House District 8

Pitt County · 2026
Likely D
Partisan baseline (2024)
D+30.0
runs 31.6 pts more Democratic than NC overall · moving toward Democrats since 2018
2024 result
D+28.0
won by Brown (D)
Rep. Gloristine Brown
Democrat · Incumbent
  • Former mayor of Bethel, now a House Democratic Whip, with career experience in the nursing and insurance industries.
  • First elected in 2022, serving her second term, and has served as a Pitt Community College trustee.
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Cathy Thorne Bynum
Republican · Candidate
  • Taught high school math in Pitt County Schools for nearly two decades and was named Teacher of the Year at Farmville Central High School.
  • Earned a mechanical engineering degree from North Carolina A&T State University in 1980 and began her career with Procter & Gamble.
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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 8, from the Census American Community Survey (2020-2024). The dark tick on each bar marks North Carolina overall.

Median household income
$47,446
NC
▼ vs NC · NC $75k
Bachelor's degree or higher
30%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 36%
Poverty rate
27%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 13%
Homeownership
37%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 67%
Unemployment
8.6%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 4.7%
Uninsured rate
10%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 10%
Top communities: Greenville 78% · Farmville 9% · Winterville 8% · Bethel 2% · Fountain 2%

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; 37,570 voted in 2024.

White
45%
50%
Black
46%
44%
Hispanic
3.9%
3.2%
Asian
1.0%
0.8%
American Indian
0.2%
0.2%
Other
3.7%
1.9%
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

How far this district swings

Across these cycles the Democratic share of the two-party vote here has ranged from 61% to 64%.

Precinct detail

20 precincts.

About this seat

HD-8 is rated Likely D from its 2024 partisan baseline of D+30.0. Districts this far from even are not competitive in a typical cycle - the outcome tracks the district’s underlying partisanship rather than individual campaigns. Democrats have gained 2.4 points of vote share here since 2018, moving the seat’s two-way margin 4.8 points their way.

Campaign money

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Brown (D) $2K cash$5K cash Bynum (R)
Bynum holds 2.1x the cash on hand. Raised this cycle: Brown $14K / Bynum $8K.
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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