Buncombe County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is classified within Western North Carolina. The 2020 census reported the population was 269,452. Its county seat is Asheville. Buncombe County is part of the Asheville,NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Zebulon Baird Vance was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 37th and 43rd governor of North Carolina,a U.S. Senator from North Carolina,and a Confederate officer during the American Civil War.
Martin Luther Nesbitt Jr. was a Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate. He represented the 49th district. An attorney from Asheville,North Carolina,Nesbitt was elected to eleven terms in the state House before moving to the state senate in 2004.
James Calvin "Cal" Cunningham III is an American lawyer,politician,and retired military officer. A member of the Democratic Party and a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve,he served one term as a North Carolina state senator from 2001 to 2003. Having previously run for United States Senate in a 2010 primary,Cunningham was the Democratic nominee for the 2020 U.S. Senate election in North Carolina,narrowly losing to incumbent Republican Thom Tillis.
Roy Asberry Cooper III is an American attorney and politician serving since 2017 as the 75th governor of North Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the 49th attorney general of North Carolina from 2001 to 2017 and in the North Carolina General Assembly in both the House of Representatives and Senate from 1987 to 2001.
Patsy Rouzer Keever is a North Carolina educator and Democratic politician.
Sue Ellen Myrick is an American businesswoman and the former U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 9th congressional district,serving from 1995 to 2013. She is a member of the Republican Party. She was the first Republican woman to represent North Carolina in Congress. On February 7,2012,she announced that she was retiring. She left Congress in January 2013 and was succeeded by Robert Pittenger.
The North Carolina Democratic Party (NCDP) is the North Carolina affiliate of the Democratic Party. It is headquartered in the historic Goodwin House,located in Raleigh.
Lillian Exum Clement,later known as Lillian Stafford,was an American politician who was the first woman elected to the North Carolina General Assembly and the first woman to serve in any state legislature in the Southern United States.
Terry M. Bellamy is the former mayor of Asheville,North Carolina. She was first elected to the Asheville City Council in 1999 and won re‑election in 2003. She was elected mayor in November 2005,defeating incumbent Mayor Charles Worley in the October primary. Bellamy became the youngest mayor in North Carolina at the age of 33 and the first African-American Mayor of Asheville. Bellamy,a Democrat,received 10,534 votes (56.8%) to opponent Joe Dunn's 8,004 votes (43.2%). She won re-election in 2009. Bellamy chose not to run for another term in 2013,but instead announced plans to run for the U.S. House of Representatives for a second time.
Cecil Bothwell is an American politician,writer,artist,musician and builder. Bothwell was elected to the Asheville,North Carolina city council in 2009 and reelected in 2013,but lost in the 2017 primary,coming in 7th out of 12 candidates.
The 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina were held on Tuesday,November 4,2014 to elect the 13 U.S. representatives from the state of North Carolina,one from each of the state's 13 congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the United States Senate and House of Representatives and various state and local elections,including an election to the U.S. Senate.
Mary Cordell Nesbitt was an American politician.
John Curtis Ager Jr. is a former Democratic politician from North Carolina. Ager served as a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives,representing the 115th district from 2015 to 2023. On December 6,2021,Ager announced that he wouldn't seek re-election in 2022.
The 2020 United States Senate election in North Carolina was held on November 3,2020,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of North Carolina,concurrently with the 2020 United States presidential election as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. North Carolina was one of just five states holding presidential,gubernatorial,and senatorial elections concurrently in 2020. On March 3,2020,Republican incumbent Thom Tillis and Democratic former state senator Cal Cunningham won their respective primaries.
Yvonne Lewis Holley is an American politician who served as the North Carolina state representative for the 38th district from 2013 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party,her district consisted of part of Wake County. She was the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor of North Carolina in the 2020 North Carolina lieutenant gubernatorial election,which she narrowly lost to Mark Robinson.
The 2020 North Carolina lieutenant gubernatorial election took place on November 3,2020,to elect the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina,concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election,as well as elections to the United States Senate and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Primary elections were held on March 3,2020.
Brian Mills Turner is a former Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives. Turner represented the 116th district from 2015 to 2023. On November 29,2021,Turner announced that he wouldn't seek re-election in 2022.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina were held on November 8,2022,to elect U.S. representatives from the state of North Carolina,concurrent with nationwide elections to the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate,alongside legislative elections to the state house and senate. Primaries were held on May 17,2022.
The 2020 congressional election in North Carolina's 11th congressional district was held on Tuesday,November 3,2020,to determine the next representative to the United States House of Representatives from the 11th district. On December 19,2019,incumbent representative Mark Meadows announced his retirement and was appointed White House Chief of Staff on March 30,2020,leaving the seat vacant.
