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Senate District 19

Cumberland County · 2026
Likely D
Partisan baseline (2024)
D+31.1
runs 32.8 pts more Democratic than NC overall · stable across recent cycles
2024 result
D+30.0
won by Applewhite (D)
Sen. Val Applewhite
Democrat · Incumbent
  • Val Applewhite is the Democratic state senator for District 19 in Cumberland County and has worked as a real estate broker.
  • She served on the Fayetteville City Council from 2007 to 2011 and won her first state Senate term in 2022.
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Venus de la Cruz
Republican · Candidate
  • Venus de la Cruz is a Fayetteville business owner.

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 Senate District 19, from the Census American Community Survey (2020-2024). The dark tick on each bar marks North Carolina overall.

Median household income
$58,002
NC
▼ vs NC · NC $75k
Bachelor's degree or higher
28%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 36%
Poverty rate
19%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 13%
Homeownership
50%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 67%
Unemployment
8.5%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 4.7%
Uninsured rate
10%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 10%
Top communities: Fayetteville 97% · Hope Mills 3%

Who registers vs. who votes

Each group's share of registered voters against its share of those who actually voted in 2024. About 153k voters are registered here; 90,785 voted in 2024.

White
35%
38%
Black
49%
49%
Hispanic
7.6%
6.2%
Asian
1.9%
1.8%
American Indian
0.9%
0.9%
Other
5.1%
3.7%
Registered (2024)Voted (2024)
Voter race and ethnicity are self-reported at registration; voters without a designation (10% 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 63% to 66%.

Precinct detail

55 precincts.

About this seat

SD-19 is rated Likely D from its 2024 partisan baseline of D+31.1. Districts this far from even are not competitive in a typical cycle - the outcome tracks the district’s underlying partisanship rather than individual campaigns. Its baseline has been essentially stable since 2018.

Campaign money

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Applewhite (D) $14K cash$0 cash Cruz (R)
Applewhite has a committee on file; Cruz has no machine-readable figures (nothing filed yet, or filed on paper). Raised this cycle: Applewhite $4K / Cruz $0.
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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