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North Carolina Senate District 47

State Senate District 47

Covers all of Madison County, Ashe County, Watauga County, Yancey County, Avery County, Alleghany County and Mitchell County; parts of Caldwell County and Haywood County.

Who Holds This Seat

Ralph Hise

Republican · State Senator

Holds This SeatOn the 2026 ballot

Running in 2026

IncumbentNov 3 General
Ralph Hise

Republican · State Senator

Ballot
On the 2026 ballot
Last Change
Profile updated · Oct 3
Raised
Not on file
Cash on Hand
Not on file

No finance filing on record.

ChallengerNov 3 General
Frank Patton Hughes III

Democrat

Ballot
On the 2026 ballot
Last Change
Profile updated · Oct 3
Raised
Not on file
Cash on Hand
Not on file

No finance filing on record.

The District

Includes Cove Creek, Lenoir (part), Beech Mountain, Boone, Foscoe, Marshall, Valle Crucis, Banner Elk, Blowing Rock, Burnsville, Canton (part), Grandfather Village and 17 more.

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105 precincts · District lines: State legislative lines: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 (SLDU/SLDL) · Precinct lines: North Carolina State Board of Elections, statewide precinct shapefile (dl.ncsbe.gov/PrecinctMaps; NC public record); Census 2020 VTDs for the elections before the current layer; district shares for split precincts from U.S. Census Bureau 2020 block population (2026-10-04)

Results in This District

ContestFirstSecondMarginVotes
2024 President106 precinctsNC State Board of Elections — official precinct resultsOfficial certified resultsDonald J. Trump (R)49,473 · 68.3%Kamala D. Harris (D)21,879 · 30.2%R+38.172,463
2024 Governor106 precinctsNC State Board of Elections — official precinct resultsOfficial certified resultsMark Robinson (R)39,989 · 56.4%Josh Stein (D)27,435 · 38.7%R+17.770,942
2022 U.S. Senate100 precinctsNC State Board of Elections — official precinct resultsOfficial certified resultsTed Budd (R)39,273 · 66.3%Cheri Beasley (D)18,312 · 30.9%R+35.459,251
2020 President108 precinctsNC State Board of Elections — official precinct resultsOfficial certified resultsDonald J. Trump (R)48,957 · 70.3%Joseph R. Biden (D)19,656 · 28.2%R+42.169,649
2020 U.S. Senate108 precinctsNC State Board of Elections — official precinct resultsOfficial certified resultsThom Tillis (R)45,801 · 66.5%Cal Cunningham (D)20,029 · 29.1%R+37.468,915
2020 Governor108 precinctsNC State Board of Elections — official precinct resultsOfficial certified resultsDan Forest (R)45,936 · 66.1%Roy Cooper (D)22,574 · 32.5%R+33.669,477

Totals add up the certified precinct results for the precincts inside today's district lines. A precinct split by the district line counts in full, or only in the district holding most of its voters where the linkage assigns it to one, and votes a county reported only countywide (some counties' absentee and early votes) are left out, so totals can differ from an official canvass.

Past Results

NC State Senate District 47

North Carolina General Election 11/05/2024 · Nov 5, 2024
CandidateVotesShare
Ralph HiseRepublican75,60764.2%
Frank Patton Hughes IIIDemocrat42,24735.8%

Official certified results — NC State Board of Elections · NC State Board of Elections — official precinct results

NC State Senate District 47

North Carolina General Election 11/08/2022 · Nov 8, 2022
CandidateVotesShare
Ralph HiseRepublican62,436100.0%

Official certified results — NC State Board of Elections · NC State Board of Elections — official precinct results

NC State Senate District 47

North Carolina General Election 11/03/2020 · Nov 3, 2020
CandidateVotesShare
Ralph HiseRepublican68,44068.4%
David Brian WheelerDemocrat31,55431.6%

Official certified results — NC State Board of Elections · NC State Board of Elections — official precinct results

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