US Midterms 2026
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Don Davis, a Democrat and former Air Force officer who has represented North Carolina's 1st congressional district since 2023, seeks re-election in 2026 against Republican Laurie Buckhout, whom he defeated in 2024.
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Focus: Don Davis, the incumbent Democrat in North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District (NC-01), and his stance on healthcare policy and hospital stability.
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The article notes that Mikie Sherrill’s midterm strategy includes endorsing a diverse slate of veterans running for Congress, with Don Davis highlighted as a candidate in North Carolina's redrawn districts.
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Don Davis was born in Snow Hill, North Carolina, and was raised in part by his grandmother, Edna Dixon; he later lived in Irving, Texas, where he attended MacArthur High School.
He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Air Force Academy in 1994 and served eight years in the Air Force, rising to the rank of captain and working as a coordinator of Air Force One operations at Joint Base Andrews.
While in the military he received a Master of Science degree from Central Michigan University, and from 1998 he taught aerospace studies in East Carolina University's Air Force ROTC department, later earning a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Education.
Davis was elected mayor of Snow Hill in 2001 and re-elected in 2005, overseeing the repaving of ninety percent of the town's roads. He won the 5th district seat in the North Carolina Senate in 2008 after a primary runoff, lost it to Republican Louis Pate in 2010, and regained it in 2012, serving until 2023. In the state senate he sponsored a 2021 bill providing $215 million for East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine.
After G. K. Butterfield retired, Davis won the 2022 Democratic primary for North Carolina's 1st congressional district over former state senator Erica D. Smith and defeated Republican Sandy Smith with 52.27% of the vote.
In 2024, under a map enacted by the Republican-controlled General Assembly, he defeated Republican Laurie Buckhout by 1.5 percentage points.
He is vice ranking member of the Armed Services Committee and ranking member of the Agriculture Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development.
Don Davis is the Democratic nominee for re-election in North Carolina's 1st congressional district, which was redrawn on October 22, 2025, to favor Republicans.
The redrawn district includes all of 22 counties, among them Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, and Nash, as well as a small portion of eastern Granville County, and Davis was re-elected with 49.5% of the vote in 2024.
His Republican opponent is Laurie Buckhout, a former acting assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy, who won a five-candidate Republican primary with 39.5% of the vote. Libertarian Tom Bailey, a contractor and perennial candidate, is also on the ballot.
The general election takes place on November 3, 2026.
