This year’s filing deadline for candidates running for Congress in North Carolina was Dec. 15, 2023.
Sixty-four candidates are running for North Carolina’s 14 U.S. House districts, including 15 Democrats and 49 Republicans. That’s 4.6 candidates per district, less than the 7.14 candidates per district in 2022, the first election after the number of congressional districts in North Carolina increased from 13 to 14.
In 2020, when the state still had 13 Congressional districts, 4.9 candidates filed to run per district. In 2018, 4.3 candidates filed, and, in 2016, 5.7 did.