North Carolina's 1st congressional district

**North Carolina's 1st congressional district** is a congressional district in North Carolina. Democrat G. K. Butterfield is the representative for the district.

### Presidential races

|Year|Office|Results||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2000|President|align="right"|Gore  57–42%|
|2004|President|align="right"|Kerry  57–42%|
|2008|President|align="right"|Obama  62–37%|
|2012|President|align="right"|Obama  68–31%|
|2016|President|align="right"|Clinton  68–31%|
|2020|President|align="right"|Biden  54–45%|

## List of representatives

|Representative|Party|Years|Cong ress|Electoral history|District location||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="left"|**John B. Ashe**||Anti-Administration|nowrap=""|March 24, 1790 – March 3, 1791||Elected in 1790. Redistricted to the .|**1790–1791**Anson, Burke, Guilford, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, Rowan, Rutherford, Wilkes|||
|align="left"|**John Steele**||Pro-Administration|nowrap=""|March 4, 1791 – March 3, 1793||Redistricted from the  and re-elected in 1791.|**1791–1793**Burke, Guilford, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, Rowan, Rutherford, Wilkes|||
|align="left"|**Joseph McDowell**||Anti-Administration|nowrap=""|March 4, 1793 – March 3, 1795||Elected in 1793. Lost re-election.|rowspan="5"|**1793–1803**Ashe, Buncombe, Burke, Lincoln, Rutherford, Wilkes||
|align="left"|**James Holland**||Democratic-Republican|nowrap=""|March 4, 1795 – March 3, 1797||Elected in 1795. Lost re-election.||||
|align="left"|**Joseph McDowell Jr.**||Democratic-Republican|nowrap=""|March 4, 1797 – March 3, 1799||Elected in 1796. Lost re-election.||||
|align="left"|**Joseph Dickson**||Federalist|nowrap=""|March 4, 1799 – March 3, 1801||Elected in 1798. Lost re-election.||||
|align="left"|**James Holland**||Democratic-Republican|nowrap=""|March 4, 1801 – March 3, 1803||Elected in 1800. Redistricted to the .||||
|align="left"|**Thomas Wynns**||Democratic-Republican|nowrap=""|March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1807||Redistricted from the  and re-elected in 1803. Re-elected in 1804. Retired.|rowspan="2"|**1803–1813**Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford, Pasquotank, Perquimans||
|align="left"|**Lemuel Sawyer**||Democratic-Republican|nowrap=""|March 4, 1807 – March 3, 1813||Elected in 1806. Re-elected in 1808. Re-elected in 1810. Lost re-election.||||
|align="left"|**William H. Murfree**||Democratic-Republican|nowrap=""|March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1817||Elected in 1813. Re-elected in 1815. Retired.|rowspan="2"|**1813–1823**Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford, Pasquotank, Perquimans||
|align="left"|**Lemuel Sawyer**||Democratic-Republican|nowrap=""|March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1823||Elected in 1817. Re-elected in 1819. Re-elected in 1821. Lost re-election.||||
|align="left"|**Alfred M. Gatlin**||Democratic-Republican|nowrap=""|March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825||Elected in 1823. Lost re-election.|rowspan="3"|**1823–1833**Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford, Pasquotank, Perquimans||
|align="left"|**Lemuel Sawyer**||Jacksonian|nowrap=""|March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1829||Elected in 1825. Re-elected in 1827. Lost re-election.||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|**William B. Shepard**|rowspan="2"|Anti-Jacksonian|rowspan="2" nowrap=""|March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1837|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Elected in 1829.||
|rowspan="3"|**1833–1843**Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford, Pasquotank, Perquimans||||||||||
|align="left"|**Samuel T. Sawyer**||Whig|nowrap=""|March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1839||||||
|align="left"|**Kenneth Rayner**||Whig|nowrap=""|March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1843||Redistricted to the .||||
|align="left"|**Thomas L. Clingman**||Whig|nowrap=""|March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845|||rowspan="3"|**1843–1853**Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Cleveland, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Rutherford, Yancey||
|align="left"|**James Graham**||Whig|nowrap=""|March 4, 1845 – March 3, 1847||||||
|align="left"|**Thomas L. Clingman**||Whig|nowrap=""|March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1853||Redistricted to the .||||
|align="left"|**Henry M. Shaw**||Democratic|nowrap=""|March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855|||rowspan="4"|**1853–1861**Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Martin, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Washington||
|align="left"|**Robert T. Paine**||Know Nothing|nowrap=""|March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857||||||
|align="left"|**Henry M. Shaw**||Democratic|nowrap=""|March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859||||||
|align="left"|**William N. H. Smith**||Opposition|nowrap=""|March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1861||North Carolina seceded from the Union in May 1861||||
|colspan="2"|_Vacant_|nowrap=""|March 4, 1861 – July 6, 1868||colspan="2"|Civil War and Reconstruction|||||
|align="left"|**John R. French**||Republican|nowrap=""|July 6, 1868 – March 3, 1869||Elected to finish the short term.|rowspan="2"|**1868–1873**Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Washington||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|**Clinton L. Cobb**|rowspan="2"|Republican|rowspan="2" nowrap=""|March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1875|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|||
|rowspan="5"|**1873–1883**Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, Washington||||||||||
|align="left"|**Jesse J. Yeates**||Democratic|nowrap=""|March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1879||||||
|align="left"|**Joseph J. Martin**||Republican|nowrap=""|March 4, 1879 – January 29, 1881||Lost contested election.||||
|align="left"|**Jesse J. Yeates**||Democratic|nowrap=""|January 29, 1881 – March 3, 1881||Won contested election.||||
|align="left"|**Louis C. Latham**||Democratic|nowrap=""|March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883||||||
|align="left"|**Walter F. Pool**||Republican|nowrap=""|March 4, 1883 – August 25, 1883|rowspan="2"||Died.|rowspan="6"|**1883–1893**Beaufort, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, Washington|
|colspan="2"|_Vacant_|nowrap=""|August 25, 1883 – November 20, 1883||||||||
|align="left"|**Thomas G. Skinner**||Democratic|nowrap=""|November 20, 1883 – March 3, 1887||Elected to finish Pool's term.||||
|align="left"|**Louis C. Latham**||Democratic|nowrap=""|March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889||||||
|align="left"|**Thomas G. Skinner**||Democratic|nowrap=""|March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1891||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|**William A. B. Branch**|rowspan="2"|Democratic|rowspan="2" nowrap=""|March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1895|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|||
|rowspan="3"|**1893–1903**Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, Washington||||||||||
|align="left"|**Harry Skinner**||Populist|nowrap=""|March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1899||||||
|rowspan="3" align="left"|**John H. Small**|rowspan="3"|Democratic|rowspan="3" nowrap=""|March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1921|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|||
|**1903–1913**Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, Washington|||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|**1913–1933**Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, Washington||||||||||
|align="left"|**Hallett S. Ward**||Democratic|nowrap=""|March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1925||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|**Lindsay C. Warren**|rowspan="2"|Democratic|rowspan="2" nowrap=""|March 4, 1925 – October 31, 1940|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Resigned to become U.S. Comptroller General.||
|rowspan="3"|**1933–1943**Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, Washington||||||||||
|colspan="2"|_Vacant_|nowrap=""|October 31, 1940 – November 5, 1940||||||||
|rowspan="4" align="left"|**Herbert C. Bonner**|rowspan="4"|Democratic|rowspan="4" nowrap=""|November 5, 1940 – November 7, 1965|rowspan="4"||rowspan="4"|Elected to finish Warren's term. Died.||
|**1943–1953**Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, Washington|||||||||||
|**1953–1963**Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, Washington|||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|**1963–1973**Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Craven, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, Washington||||||||||
|colspan="2"|_Vacant_|nowrap=""|November 7, 1965 – February 5, 1966||||||||
|rowspan="3" align="left"|**Walter B. Jones Sr.**|rowspan="3"|Democratic|rowspan="3" nowrap=""|February 5, 1966 – September 15, 1992|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|Elected to finish Bonner's term. Died.||
|**1973–1983**|||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|**1983–1993**||||||||||
|colspan="2"|_Vacant_|nowrap=""|September 15, 1992 – November 3, 1992||||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|**Eva Clayton**|rowspan="2"|Democratic|rowspan="2" nowrap=""|November 3, 1992 – January 3, 2003|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Elected to finish Jones's term. Retired.||
|**1993–2003**|||||||||||
|align="left"|**Frank Ballance**||Democratic|nowrap=""|January 3, 2003 – June 11, 2004|rowspan="2"||Elected in 2002. Resigned.|rowspan="3"|**2003–2013**|
|colspan="2"|_Vacant_|nowrap=""|June 11, 2004 – July 20, 2004||||||||
|rowspan="4" align="left"|**G. K. Butterfield**|rowspan="4"|Democratic|rowspan="4"|July 20, 2004 – Present|rowspan="4"||rowspan="4"|Elected to finish Ballance's term. Re-elected later in 2004. Re-elected in 2006. Re-elected in 2008. Re-elected in 2010. Re-elected in 2012. Re-elected in 2014. Re-elected in 2016. Re-elected in 2018. Re-elected in 2020.||
|**2013–2017**|||||||||||
|**2017–2021**|||||||||||
|**2021—Present**|||||||||||

## Infobox (u.s. congressional district)

- **state**: North Carolina
- **median income**: $47,469
- **cpvi**: D+5
- **percent other race**: 0.1
- **percent hispanic**: 8.78
- **percent native american**: 1.02
- **percent asian**: 1.98
- **percent black**: 44.93
- **percent white**: 43.19
- **population year**: 2019
- **district number**: 1
- **population**: 763,500
- **percent rural**: 37.1
- **percent urban**: 62.9
- **residence**: Wilson
- **party**: Democratic
- **representative**: G.K. Butterfield
- **image caption**: North Carolina's 1st congressional district since January 3, 2021
- **image width**: 400
- **image name**: United States Congressional Districts in North Carolina, 2021 - 2023.tif