November 2026 voter guides | Our Piedmont Education Foundation

Our Piedmont Education Foundation · Guilford County & the Piedmont Triad · September 2026

What is on YOUR November 3 ballot?

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Your county

This tool is voter education, not a sample ballot. Confirm your exact contests and districts at vt.ncsbe.gov.

Scorecards grade sitting members on tracked bills.

These cards compare the two names you will actually see on November 3.

How to use this page

Find your race.
Read the one-line “why this race is on this desk.”
Open the card for the concern-set marks (how we score).
Confirm your sample ballot at the State Board of Elections.

Federal

These two races are on every ballot in this coverage area.

U.S. Senate · North Carolina

Roy Cooper (D) vs. Michael Whatley (R)

Where it lives: Statewide — every Guilford and Triad ballot.
Why a neighbor would care: Open Tillis seat. Household costs, disaster recovery, and who sets the federal terms Guilford lives under.
What the card scores: Household costs, ICE detainers, Helene recovery, and the 51st Senate vote.

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U.S. House · North Carolina 6th

Addison McDowell (R, inc.) vs. Cyril Jefferson (D)

Where it lives: Guilford, Davidson, and Forsyth slices.
Why a neighbor would care: Incumbent first elected in 2024 vs. High Point’s sitting mayor — the House member who carries this district’s bills.
What the card scores: The published concern set used on every November card.

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N.C. Senate

This seat covers Guilford and Rockingham. The winner writes the state terms that sit under the county tax rate.

N.C. Senate · District 26

Sam Page (R) vs. Steve Luking (D)

Where it lives: Guilford and Rockingham.
Why a neighbor would care: Open after Page unseated Senate leader Phil Berger by 23 votes. Casino, levy limit, ICE, local control.
What the card scores: The published concern set — tax restraint, local control, and public-safety votes on the record.

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N.C. House

These four districts are the Raleigh votes that touch Guilford and west Forsyth households first.

N.C. House · District 59

Alan Branson (R, inc.) vs. Elma Hairston (D)

Where it lives: Eastern and southern Guilford — Julian, Pleasant Garden.
Why a neighbor would care: The House vote on the levy-limit amendment and the tax terms that land on a rural Guilford bill.
What the card scores: Published concern set. Branson is recorded yes on HB 1089.

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N.C. House · District 60

Amanda Cook (D, inc.) vs. Joseph Perrotta (R)

Where it lives: High Point and parts of Guilford.
Why a neighbor would care: Short incumbent record after a November 2025 appointment — schools, housing, and the levy limit in the Furniture City.
What the card scores: The published concern set. Cook’s roll-call history is brief; the card says so.

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N.C. House · District 62

John Blust (R, inc.) vs. Shelly Headen (D)

Where it lives: Western and northwest Guilford, parts of Greensboro.
Why a neighbor would care: Tax restraint, schools, and the House majority that sets the statewide terms Guilford lives under.
What the card scores: The published concern set on the same rows as the other November cards.

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N.C. House · District 74

Jeff Zenger (R, inc.) vs. Amy Taylor North (D)

Where it lives: West Forsyth rematch.
Why a neighbor would care: A 51.8–48.2 race last cycle. The levy limit and household costs travel with this seat.
What the card scores: Published concern set. Zenger voted yes on HB 1089.

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Guilford County

These three are decided on Market Street, not only in Raleigh.

Board of Commissioners · At-Large

Greg Drumwright (D) vs. Mike Perdue (R)

Where it lives: Countywide — every Guilford ballot.
Why a neighbor would care: The board that adopts the rate on your bill. Drumwright won the March primary. Mike Perdue is not Alan Perdue, the District 2 incumbent.
What the card scores: Tax rate, reappraisal, schools appropriation, and the published concern set.

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Board of Commissioners · District 2

Alan Perdue (R, inc.) vs. Scott A. Jones (D)

Where it lives: Southwest Guilford.
Why a neighbor would care: The board that sets the rate on your bill. Tax rate, reappraisal, sales tax.
What the card scores: The published concern set for county fiscal votes — not a character grade.

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Guilford County Sheriff

Danny Rogers (D, inc.) vs. Phil Byrd (R)

Where it lives: Countywide rematch.
Why a neighbor would care: Vacancies, overtime, jail conditions, rural backup.
What the card scores: Response, jail conditions, staffing, and ICE detainers on the public record.

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Ballot questions

Three statewide questions will be on every Guilford ballot. Greensboro voters also see a parks bond.

Statewide amendments · Greensboro parks bond

Income-tax ceiling Property-tax levy limit Photo ID on every ballot Greensboro parks bond

November 3 ballot questions

Income-tax ceiling — constitutional cap from 7% to 3.5%.
Property-tax levy limit — a cap on a government’s total take, not a freeze on one household bill.
Photo ID — writes ID, including mail, into the constitution.
Greensboro parks bond — $11.5 million, Greensboro voters only.

Right-to-work and right-to-farm are not on this ballot.

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Our Piedmont Education Foundation · 301 S Elm Street, Suite 605, Greensboro, NC 27401-2760. These pages are voter education. They are not endorsements of, or opposition to, any candidate or ballot position. For sitting-member grades on tracked bills, see the legislator scorecards.