See the new congressional map released by NC GOP, and which counties are affected
A new proposed congressional map released by North Carolina Republicans on Thursday would shift several counties in the state’s northeast into new, reshaped districts.
The new map, as expected, would redraw the state’s 1st Congressional District. It would extend the district’s lines farther south along the coast to Carteret County.
The 1st district, currently represented in the U.S. House by Rep. Don Davis, a Democrat from Snow Hill in Greene County, is the state’s only swing district under the map currently in place that was drawn by Republicans in 2023.
Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Destin Hall announced earlier this week that GOP lawmakers would take up a new congressional map when they return to Raleigh for a few days of voting sessions next week.
On Thursday, Republicans unveiled the new map and said it would be in front of lawmakers on Monday morning, beginning with the Senate Committee on Elections.
Davis’ seat in northeastern North Carolina was widely expected to be the most vulnerable to another redraw by Republicans, given its competitive profile.
Proposed redrawn congressional map released in 2025
In order to make the 1st district more safely Republican-leaning, the new map would trade a number of counties between the 1st and 3rd Districts.
The 1st district currently extends from Vance County to Currituck County, while dropping down to Wayne and Lenoir counties. The 3rd district runs from Sampson County east to Carteret County on the coast, and up to Dare County.
Under the new map, the 1st District would retain most of its current composition but extend farther south along the coast to include six counties that currently fall under the 3rd: Beaufort, Craven, Carteret, Pamlico, Hyde, and Dare.
The 3rd District, meanwhile, would include four counties that are currently part of the 1st: Wilson, Wayne, Lenoir, and Greene.
Data provided by the legislature shows that 55% of voters in District 1, as it would be comprised under the new map, voted for President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
That would be a far tougher district for Democrats to compete in. The competitive district lines currently in place resulted in Davis winning reelection in 2024 by less than 2 points.
Current congressional map in place since 2023
The new map, which only requires approval by simple majority votes in both chambers of the GOP-led General Assembly and cannot be vetoed by Democratic Gov. Josh Stein, could help Republicans pick up one more seat in the U.S. House.
North Carolina is the latest state to join the current mid-decade redistricting battle that began after Texas Republicans passed a new map, prompting California Democrats to draw their own map and put it on the ballot for approval by voters next month.
Both maps in Texas and California are expected to net the party creating the map five additional seats in Congress, effectively canceling each other out.
Announcing the new map on Monday, Berger and Hall said they would respond to the redraw in California by heeding Trump’s call for Republican-led states to enact new maps of their own, ahead of next year’s midterms.
This story was originally published October 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM.
