General Assembly & Local Elections

General Assembly Election Results

At the opening of the legislative session in January, the N.C. Senate will contain 30 Republicans and 20 Democrats, and the N.C. House will contain 71 Republicans and 49 Democrats. There is a clear Republican majority in the General Assembly that occasionally conflicts with the more even Council of State. The Senate’s numbers stayed the same and Republicans lost one seat in the House. 

Davie County’s Representative in the North Carolina House of Representatives is Republican Julia C. Howard, who has served in the role since 1989. She represents the state’s 77th representative district, being one of 120 representatives in the House. Being a general assembly member isn’t a full-time job; Rep. Howard also serves as the President of Howard Realty & Insurance Agency and previously served eight years on the Mocksville Town Board.

Our senator in the North Carolina Senate is Republican Steve Jarvis, who has served as a senator since 2020. He represents the 30th senatorial district of the state. He is a general contractor and lives in Lexington. Last school year, he visited South Davie Middle School to discuss the value of leadership with the school’s eighteen House Leaders. He was previously the County Commissioner of Davidson County and a representative for the 80th district. 

Davie County Election Results

Jeff Jones, W.G. (Dub) Potts, Michael Hunter, and Stephanie Hurst, all members of the Republican Party, were elected to the Davie County Board of Education. They were the only four figures to appear on the ballot, and voters could vote for up to four candidates; as such, they all received around 21,000 votes in a county of 40,000. 

The Davie County Enterprise describes Davie as a “Red” county—this is clear in our local election results. There are no Democrat elected officials in Davie County. There is only one nonpartisan official, the Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor, who legally must run without party affiliations.