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Senate District 26

Guilford & Rockingham counties · 2026
Likely ROpen seat
Partisan baseline (2024)
R+19.9
runs 18.2 pts more Republican than NC overall · moving toward Republicans since 2018
2024 result
R+13.6
won by Berger (R)
Steve Luking
Democrat · Candidate
  • Retired family physician who co-founded Reidsville Family Medicine in 1993.
  • Practiced medicine for about four decades and served as chief of staff and hospital board chair at his local hospital.
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Sam Page
Republican · Candidate
  • Rockingham County sheriff, first elected in 1998.
  • Served in the U.S. Air Force from 1975 to 1980 as a security forces K-9 handler.
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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 Senate District 26, from the Census American Community Survey (2020-2024). The dark tick on each bar marks North Carolina overall.

Median household income
$72,926
NC
▼ vs NC · NC $75k
Bachelor's degree or higher
29%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 36%
Poverty rate
12%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 13%
Homeownership
77%
NC
▲ vs NC · NC 67%
Unemployment
4.2%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 4.7%
Uninsured rate
8%
NC
▼ vs NC · NC 10%
Top communities: Greensboro 17% · Reidsville 16% · Eden 9% · Whitsett 6% · Stokesdale 5%

Who registers vs. who votes

Each group's share of registered voters against its share of those who actually voted in 2024. About 162k voters are registered here; 127,070 voted in 2024.

White
72%
75%
Black
21%
20%
Hispanic
3.0%
2.3%
Asian
1.4%
1.2%
American Indian
0.2%
0.2%
Other
2.1%
1.5%
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 (75% 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 41% to 43%.

Precinct detail

49 precincts.

About this seat

SD-26 is rated Likely R from its 2024 partisan baseline of R+19.9. 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 0.8 points of vote share here since 2018, moving the seat’s two-way margin 1.7 points their way.

Campaign money

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Luking (D) $54K cash$17K cash Page (R)
Luking holds 3.1x the cash on hand. Raised this cycle: Luking $71K / Page $91K.
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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