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Regional races for seats in the North Carolina General Assembly and the U.S. House of Representatives appear to favor incumbents.

Unofficial results from Tuesday’s General Election show Republican incumbent Bill Ward of Elizabeth City holding on to his District 5 seat in the North Carolina House of Representatives.

With all precincts reporting, Ward has 22,231 votes compared to 18,780 votes for Howard Hunter III, a Democrat from Ahoskie. Hunter, the incumbent in 2022, lost the District 5 seat to Ward during that year’s election.

The unofficial results show Ward as the top vote-getter in Gates, Pasquotank, and Camden counties while Hunter was favored in his home county of Hertford.

In the race for the District 1 seat in the North Carolina Senate, Bobby Hanig, the Republican incumbent from Currituck County, has defeated Susan Harman-Scott, the Democratic challenger from Dare County.

The unofficial results show Hanig with 62,483 votes while Harman-Scott was named on 46,624 ballots with all precincts reporting in the 10-county district.

Unofficial results from the race for the NC District 1 seat in the U.S. House of Representatives show incumbent Don Davis leading Republican challenger Laurie Buckhout, 168,930 to 164,865, a margin of 1.19 percent between the two candidates.