North Carolina's 4th congressional district

North Carolina's 4th congressional district
	North Carolina's 4th congressional district - since January 3, 2017.
	David Price; D–Chapel Hill
Population (2016)	847,032[1]
Median income	$70,293[2]
Ethnicity	51.68% white[3]; 21.95% black; 10.2% Hispanic; 8.86% Asian; 6.9% other; 0.41% Native American;
Cook PVI	D+17[4]

The 4th congressional district of North Carolina is located in the central region of the state. The district includes part of Wake County, (parts of Raleigh, Cary, and Morrisville), all of Orange County, (Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough), and a small sliver of southern Durham County.

The district is currently represented by 11-term Congressman David Price, a former political science professor at Duke who was first elected in 1986, ousting one-term Republican incumbent Bill Cobey.[5] Price was reelected in 1988, 1990, and 1992, but he was defeated in his bid for a fifth term in 1994 by Republican Fred Heineman, the Raleigh Police Chief, in a generally bad year for Democrats in North Carolina. Price came back to defeat Heineman in a rematch in 1996, and has been reelected each time since then by large margins, usually with more than 60% of the vote. In 2008, Price received 63% (265,751 votes) to defeat Republican challenger B.J. Lawson, who received 37% (153,947 votes).[6]

Before court mandated redistricting in 2016, according to research by Christopher Ingraham of the Washington Post, the district was the third most gerrymandered Congressional district in North Carolina and seventh most gerrymandered district in the United States.[7] In contrast, its predecessor was the most regularly drawn of the state's 13 districts.

History

From 2003 to 2013 it contained most of the area commonly known as The Triangle. It included all of Durham and Orange counties, part of Wake County and a small section of Chatham County. The 4th district picked up the most Republican areas of Wake County, such as Apex, Cary, and much of North Raleigh in order to help make the neighboring 13th and 2nd districts more Democratic. For instance, Barack Obama defeated John McCain in the Wake County portion of the district in 2008 by 51–48%, a difference of less than 8,000 votes in between the two candidates.[8] In contrast, Obama won Wake County overall by a much greater margin of 56–43%, and Obama swept the 4th district as a whole by 63–36%. The Republican influence in the district's Wake County portion was more than canceled out by the two Democratic strongholds of Orange and Durham counties, where Obama received 72% and 76%, respectively, his two best counties in the entire state. The 4th district had a Cook PVI of D+8, which made it the most Democratic white-majority district in the entire South outside of South Florida and Northern Virginia.

The district became even more heavily Democratic as a result of 2012 redistricting, in which the more Republican areas of western and southern Wake County were removed, along with northern Orange County and most of its share of Durham County. They were replaced by heavily Democratic portions of Alamance, Cumberland, Harnett and Lee counties. Additionally, the district was pushed further into Raleigh. Like its predecessor, the district is one of the few Southern districts with a significant concentration of progressive-minded white voters—similar to areas around Atlanta, Houston, Charlotte, Nashville, Memphis and Austin. The presence of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Duke University, as well as a large African-American population in Durham and Raleigh help contribute to the liberal nature of the 4th district.

Before court mandated redistricting in 2016, the district was just barely contiguous; the northern and southern portions were connected by a barely-discernible strip of land along the Lee/Harnett line.

Recent election results from presidential races

Year	Office	Results
2000	President	Gore 52-47%
2004	President	Kerry 61–38%
2008	President	Obama 72–27%
2012	President	Obama 71–28%
2016	President	Clinton 68–27%

Recent House elections

2002

2002 US House election: North Carolina District 4[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	David Price	132,185	61.18
	Republican	Tuan A. Nguyen	78,095	36.15
	Libertarian	Ken Nelson	5,766	2.67
Total votes			216,046	100
	Democratic hold

2004

2004 US House election: North Carolina District 4[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	David Price	217,441	64.1
	Republican	Todd A. Batchelor	121,717	35.88
	N/A	Maximilian Longley	76	0.02
Total votes			339,234	100
	Democratic hold

2006

2006 US House election: North Carolina District 4[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	David Price	127,340	64.99
	Republican	Steve Acuff	68,599	35.01
Total votes			195,939	100
	Democratic hold

2008

2008 US House election: North Carolina District 4[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	David Price	265,751	63.32
	Republican	William (B.J.) Lawson	153,947	36.68
Total votes			419,698	100
	Democratic hold

2010

2010 US House election: North Carolina District 4[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	David Price	155,384	57.16
	Republican	William (B.J.) Lawson	116,448	42.84
Total votes			271,832	100
	Democratic hold

2012

2012 US House election: North Carolina District 4[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	David Price	259,534	74.47
	Republican	Tim D'Annunzio	88,951	25.53
Total votes			348,485	100
	Democratic hold

2014

2014 US House election: North Carolina District 4[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	David Price	169,946	74.75
	Republican	Paul Wright	57,416	25.25
Total votes			227,362	100
	Democratic hold

2016

2016 US House election: North Carolina District 4[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	David Price	279,380	68.22
	Republican	Sue Googe	130,161	31.78
Total votes			409,541	100
	Democratic hold

2018

2018 US House election: North Carolina District 4[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	David Price	247,067	72.4
	Republican	Steve Loor	82,052	24.0
	Libertarian	Barbara Howe	12,284	3.6
Total votes			341,403	100
	Democratic hold

List of members representing the district

Member	Party	Years	Cong ress	Electoral history	District location
John Steele	Pro-Administration	April 19, 1790 – March 3, 1791	1st	Elected in 1790. Redistricted to the 1st district.	1790–1791 "Yadkin division"
Hugh Williamson	Anti-Administration	March 4, 1791 – March 3, 1793	2nd	Redistricted from the 2nd district and re-elected in 1791. [data unknown/missing]	1791–1793 "Albemarle division"
Alexander Mebane	Anti-Administration	March 4, 1793 – July 5, 1795	3rd 4th	Elected in 1793. Re-elected in 1795. Died.	1793–1803 [data unknown/missing]
Vacant		July 5, 1795 – December 7, 1795
Absalom Tatom	Democratic-Republican	December 7, 1795 – June 1, 1796	4th	Elected to finish Mebane's term and seated December 7, 1795. Resigned.
Vacant		June 1, 1796 – December 13, 1796
William F. Strudwick	Federalist	December 13, 1796 – March 3, 1797	4th	Elected November 23, 1796 to finish Tatom's term and seated December 13, 1796. Retired.
Richard Stanford	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1797 – March 3, 1803	5th 6th 7th	Re-elected in 1796. Re-elected in 1798. Re-elected in 1800. Redistricted to the 8th district.
William Blackledge	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1809	8th 9th 10th	Elected in 1803. Re-elected in 1804. Re-elected in 1806. Lost re-election.	1803–1813 [data unknown/missing]
John Stanly	Federalist	March 4, 1809 – March 3, 1811	11th	Elected in 1808. Retired.
William Blackledge	Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1811 – March 3, 1813	12th	Re-elected in 1810. Lost re-election.
William Gaston	Federalist	March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1817	13th 14th	Re-elected in 1813. Re-elected in 1815. Retired.	1813–1823 [data unknown/missing]
Jesse Slocumb	Federalist	March 4, 1817 – December 20, 1820	15th 16th	Re-elected in 1817. Re-elected in 1819. Died.
Vacant		December 20, 1820 – February 7, 1821
William S. Blackledge	Democratic-Republican	February 7, 1821 – March 3, 1823	16th 17th	Elected in January 1821 to finish Slocumb's term and seated February 7, 1821. Re-elected later in 1821. Retired.
Richard D. Spaight Jr.	Crawford Democratic-Republican	March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825	18th	Elected in 1823. Lost re-election.	1823–1833 [data unknown/missing]
John Heritage Bryan	Anti-Jacksonian	March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1829	19th 20th	Elected in 1825. Re-elected in 1827. Retired.
Jesse Speight	Jacksonian	March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1837	21st 22nd 23rd 24th	Elected in 1829. [data unknown/missing]
Charles B. Shepard	Whig	March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1839	25th 26th	[data unknown/missing]
Charles B. Shepard	Democratic	March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1841	25th 26th	[data unknown/missing]
William H. Washington	Whig	March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843	27th	[data unknown/missing]
Edmund Deberry	Whig	March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845	28th	Redistricted from the 7th district. [data unknown/missing]
Alfred Dockery	Whig	March 4, 1845 – March 3, 1847	29th	[data unknown/missing]
Augustine H. Shepperd	Whig	March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1851	30th 31st	[data unknown/missing]
James T. Morehead	Whig	March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853	32nd	[data unknown/missing]
Sion H. Rogers	Whig	March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855	33rd	[data unknown/missing]
Lawrence O'Bryan Branch	Democratic	March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1861	34th 35th 36th	[data unknown/missing]
Vacant	March 3, 1861 – July 6, 1868			Civil War and Reconstruction
John T. Deweese	Republican	July 6, 1868 – February 28, 1870	40th 41st	[data unknown/missing] Resigned.
Vacant		February 28, 1870 – December 7, 1870
John Manning Jr.	Democratic	December 7, 1870 – March 3, 1871	41st	[data unknown/missing]
Sion H. Rogers	Democratic	March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1873	42nd	[data unknown/missing]
William A. Smith	Republican	March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875	43rd	[data unknown/missing]
Joseph J. Davis	Democratic	March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1881	44th 45th 46th	[data unknown/missing]
William R. Cox	Democratic	March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1887	47th 48th 49th	[data unknown/missing]
John Nichols	Independent	March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889	50th	[data unknown/missing]
Benjamin H. Bunn	Democratic	March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1895	51st 52nd 53rd	[data unknown/missing]
William F. Strowd	Populist	March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1899	54th 55th	[data unknown/missing]
John W. Atwater	Independent Populist	March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1901	56th	[data unknown/missing]
Edward W. Pou	Democratic	March 4, 1901 – April 1, 1934	57th 58th 59th 60th 61st 62nd 63rd 64th 65th 66th 67th 68th 69th 70th 71st 72nd 73rd	[data unknown/missing] Died.
Harold D. Cooley	Democratic	July 7, 1934 – December 30, 1966	73rd 74th 75th 76th 77th 78th 79th 80th 81st 82nd 83rd 84th 85th 86th 87th 88th 89th	[data unknown/missing] Resigned.
Vacant		December 30, 1966 – January 3, 1967
James C. Gardner	Republican	January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1969	90th	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted to the 2nd district and Retired to run for Governor of North Carolina.
Nick Galifianakis	Democratic	January 3, 1969 – January 3, 1973	91st 92nd	[data unknown/missing] Redistricted from the 5th district. Retired to run for U.S Senator.
Ike F. Andrews	Democratic	January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1985	93rd 94th 95th 96th 97th 98th	[data unknown/missing] Lost re-election.
Bill Cobey	Republican	January 3, 1985 – January 3, 1987	99th	[data unknown/missing] Lost re-election.
David Price	Democratic	January 3, 1987 – January 3, 1995	100th 101st 102nd 103rd	[data unknown/missing] Lost re-election.
Fred Heineman	Republican	January 3, 1995 – January 3, 1997	104th	[data unknown/missing] Lost re-election.
David Price	Democratic	January 3, 1997 – Present	105th 106th 107th 108th 109th 110th 111th 112th 113th 114th 115th 116th	[data unknown/missing]
					2003–2013
					2013–2017
					2017–Present

References

"Preference for Racial or Ethnic Terminology". Infoplease. Retrieved February 8, 2006.
Center for New Media & Promotion (CNMP), US Census Bureau. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov. Retrieved March 14, 2019.
United States Census Bureau. "My Congressional District". Retrieved 8 September 2016.
"Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
"Our Campaigns - Candidate - David E. Price". www.ourcampaigns.com.
"Local and National Election Results - Election Center 2008 - Elections & Politics from CNN.com". CNN.
Ingraham, Christopher. "America's most gerrymandered congressional districts". Retrieved March 14, 2019.
"north carolina hard totals". Google Docs. Retrieved March 14, 2019.
"11/05/2002 Official General Election Results - Statewide". North Carolina State Board of Elections. November 15, 2002. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
"11/02/2004 Official General Election Results - Statewide". North Carolina State Board of Elections. November 12, 2004. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
"11/07/2006 Official General Election Results - Statewide". North Carolina State Board of Elections. November 17, 2006. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
"11/04/2008 Official General Election Results - Statewide". North Carolina State Board of Elections. November 14, 2008. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
"11/02/2010 Official General Election Results - Statewide". North Carolina State Board of Elections. November 12, 2010. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
"11/06/2012 Official General Election Results - Statewide". North Carolina State Board of Elections. November 16, 2012. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
"11/04/2014 Official General Election Results - Statewide". North Carolina State Board of Elections. November 25, 2014. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
"11/08/2016 Official General Election Results - Statewide". North Carolina State Board of Elections. December 13, 2016. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
"District 4, North Carolina State Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement". North Carolina State Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement. Retrieved November 10, 2018.

Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present

External links

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[2] Center for New Media & Promotion (CNMP), US Census Bureau. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov. Retrieved March 14, 2019.

[3] United States Census Bureau. "My Congressional District". Retrieved 8 September 2016.

[Cook-4] "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.

[5] "Our Campaigns - Candidate - David E. Price". www.ourcampaigns.com.

[6] "Local and National Election Results - Election Center 2008 - Elections & Politics from CNN.com". CNN.

[7] Ingraham, Christopher. "America's most gerrymandered congressional districts". Retrieved March 14, 2019.

[8] "north carolina hard totals". Google Docs. Retrieved March 14, 2019.

[9] "11/05/2002 Official General Election Results - Statewide". North Carolina State Board of Elections. November 15, 2002. Retrieved December 25, 2017.

[10] "11/02/2004 Official General Election Results - Statewide". North Carolina State Board of Elections. November 12, 2004. Retrieved December 25, 2017.

[11] "11/07/2006 Official General Election Results - Statewide". North Carolina State Board of Elections. November 17, 2006. Retrieved December 25, 2017.

[12] "11/04/2008 Official General Election Results - Statewide". North Carolina State Board of Elections. November 14, 2008. Retrieved December 25, 2017.

[13] "11/02/2010 Official General Election Results - Statewide". North Carolina State Board of Elections. November 12, 2010. Retrieved December 25, 2017.

[14] "11/06/2012 Official General Election Results - Statewide". North Carolina State Board of Elections. November 16, 2012. Retrieved December 25, 2017.

[15] "11/04/2014 Official General Election Results - Statewide". North Carolina State Board of Elections. November 25, 2014. Retrieved December 25, 2017.

[16] "11/08/2016 Official General Election Results - Statewide". North Carolina State Board of Elections. December 13, 2016. Retrieved December 25, 2017.

[17] "District 4, North Carolina State Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement". North Carolina State Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement. Retrieved November 10, 2018.