NC-03 · House · 2026
Republicans are strongly favored to win this seat
88% probability
Candidates
Last verified 2026-09-14.
Raymond Smith Jr.
Democrat
Raymond Edward Smith Jr. is a former Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, who represented the 21st district from 2019 to 2023.
Gregory Murphy
Republican
Held by a Republican, seeking re-election.
Why we think this
- This district's baseline partisan lean favors Republicans by about 6 points of margin before anything else is considered.
- The seat is currently held by a Republican, who is running for re-election -- incumbents usually run ahead of their party's baseline.
Model details -- coefficients, calibration, and the full technical decomposition.
Model house-2026-panel-v1 · computed 2026-09-16