Result
Rep. Blair Eddins (R-Wilkes) won his second election to North Carolina House District 94 on Tuesday, Nov. 3, defeating Democrat Andy Warren with 72.6% of the vote. Unofficial results show Eddins with 22,492 votes to Warren’s 8,506, or 27.4%.
Eddins first won the seat’s Republican nomination in a four-way March 2024 primary with 43.3% of the vote. District Republicans then picked him to finish the term of Republican Jeffrey Elmore, who resigned in September 2024, and he was sworn in Oct. 1 of that year before winning a full term with 77% in November. Neither party held a contested primary this year, and his new term begins Friday, Jan. 1, 2027.
Candidates and Platforms
Eddins, of Purlear, is an auditor, small-business owner and farmer who earned degrees in agricultural business management and field crop technology from North Carolina State University. In filing for reelection, he pledged to stand up for rural communities, support law enforcement, defend parental rights and protect constitutional freedoms.
Warren, a first-time candidate, called for fair housing, hiring and anti-discrimination practices, more transparency in institutions and wider access to preventive and mental health care, community clinics and telehealth. His campaign also backed early childhood education and literacy, after-school and family support programs, and keeping politics out of the classroom.
District and Chamber
District 94 includes all of Alexander County and most of Wilkes County in northwestern North Carolina. Statewide, Democrats won 71 of the House’s 120 seats in unofficial results, flipping the chamber Republicans had controlled since 2011 and falling one seat short of a three-fifths supermajority.
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