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Senate District 22

Durham County · 2026
Likely D
Partisan baseline (2024)
D+59.6
runs 61.3 pts more Democratic than NC overall · moving toward Democrats since 2018
2024 result
Uncontested
no major-party opponent filed · Chitlik (D) unopposed
Sen. Sophia Chitlik
Democrat · Incumbent
  • First-term state senator representing Durham County.
  • Earned a bachelor's degree from New York University and has worked as an investor.
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LaKeshia M. Alston
Republican · Candidate
  • LaKeshia M. Alston is an educator.
  • She earned a bachelor's degree from Winston-Salem State University in 2009 and an associate degree from the Aveda Institute Chapel Hill in 2020.

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

Median household income
$78,674
NC
▲ vs NC · NC $75k
Bachelor's degree or higher
50%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 36%
Poverty rate
13%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 13%
Homeownership
56%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 67%
Unemployment
4.3%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 4.7%
Uninsured rate
12%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 10%
Top communities: Durham 96% · Bahama 2% · Rougemont 1% · Hillsborough 1% · Raleigh 1%

Who registers vs. who votes

Each group's share of registered voters against its share of those who actually voted in 2024. About 150k voters are registered here; 105,428 voted in 2024.

White
54%
58%
Black
32%
31%
Hispanic
6.7%
5.4%
Asian
3.9%
3.2%
American Indian
0.2%
0.2%
Other
3.8%
2.9%
Registered (2024)Voted (2024)
Voter race and ethnicity are self-reported at registration; voters without a designation (11% 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: 2024 uncontested (100% estimated) - no major-party opponent, so the value shown is the district’s underlying partisanship, not an election result. See Methodology.

How far this district swings

Across these cycles the Democratic share of the two-party vote here has ranged from 80% to 81%.

Precinct detail

36 precincts.

About this seat

SD-22 is rated Likely D from its 2024 partisan baseline of D+59.6. 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 0.6 points of vote share here since 2018, moving the seat’s two-way margin 1.3 points their way.

Campaign money

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Chitlik (D) $384 cash$0 cash Alston (R)
Chitlik has a committee on file; Alston has no machine-readable figures (nothing filed yet, or filed on paper). Raised this cycle: Chitlik $104K / Alston $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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