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House District 89

Catawba & Iredell counties · 2026
Likely R
Partisan baseline (2024)
R+48.0
runs 46.3 pts more Republican than NC overall · moving toward Republicans since 2018
2024 result
R+52.0
won by Setzer (R)
Robert (Spider) Thompson
Democrat · Candidate
  • Retired public school teacher, coach, and athletic administrator from western Iredell County.
  • He spent 36 years teaching in public schools.
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Rep. Mitchell Smith Setzer
Republican · Incumbent
  • Business executive who is vice president of Smith Setzer & Sons Inc.
  • Serving his fourteenth term in the state House.

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 89, from the Census American Community Survey (2020-2024). The dark tick on each bar marks North Carolina overall.

Median household income
$74,073
NC
▼ vs NC · NC $75k
Bachelor's degree or higher
23%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 36%
Poverty rate
9%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 13%
Homeownership
81%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 67%
Unemployment
3.7%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 4.7%
Uninsured rate
9%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 10%
Top communities: Newton 24% · Maiden 12% · Sherrills Ford 10% · Claremont 10% · Troutman 10%

Who registers vs. who votes

Each group's share of registered voters against its share of those who actually voted in 2024. About 67k voters are registered here; 52,128 voted in 2024.

White
86%
89%
Black
6.7%
5.9%
Hispanic
3.6%
2.6%
Asian
1.8%
1.1%
American Indian
0.1%
0.1%
Other
1.8%
1.0%
Registered (2024)Voted (2024)
Voter race and ethnicity are self-reported at registration; voters without a designation (7% 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 (99% 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 24% to 26%.

Precinct detail

19 precincts.

About this seat

HD-89 is rated Likely R from its 2024 partisan baseline of R+48.0. Districts this far from even are not competitive in a typical cycle - the outcome tracks the district’s underlying partisanship rather than individual campaigns. Republicans have gained 1.2 points of vote share here since 2018, moving the seat’s two-way margin 2.4 points their way.

Campaign money

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Thompson (D) $0 cash$13K cash Setzer (R)
Setzer has a committee on file; Thompson has no machine-readable figures (nothing filed yet, or filed on paper). Raised this cycle: Thompson $0 / Setzer $125K.
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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