2014 Endorsement Results

EMPAC-endorsed candidates were successful in the 2014 election with an overall winning percentage of 73 percent.
In the state Senate, the 17 of 24 endorsed winners are:

  • District 3: Erica Smith-Ingram (D-Northampton)
  • District 4: Angela Bryant (D-Nash)
  • District 5: Don Davis (D-Greene)
  • District 6: Harry Brown (R-Onslow)
  • District 7: Louis Pate (R-Wayne)
  • District 10: Brent Jackson (R-Sampson)
  • District 13: Jane Smith (D-Robeson)
  • District 14: Dan Blue (D-Wake)
  • District 17: Tamara Barringer (R-Wake)
  • District 22: Mike Woodard (D-Durham)
  • District 23: Valerie Foushee (D-Orange)
  • District 26: Phil Berger (R-Rockingham)
  • District 30: Shirley Randleman (R-Wilkes)
  • District 33: Stan Bingham (R-Davidson)
  • District 39: Bob Rucho (R-Mecklenburg)
  • District 48: Tom Apodaca (R-Henderson)
  • District 49: Terry Van Duyn (D-Buncombe)


In the state House, the 42 of 57 endorsed winners are:

  • District 5: Howard Hunter III (D-Hertford)
  • District 7: Bobbie Richardson (D-Franklin)
  • District 12: George Graham (D-Lenoir)
  • District 13: Pat McElraft (R-Carteret)
  • District 14: George Cleveland (R-Onslow)
  • District 15: Phillip Shepard (R-Onslow)
  • District 22: William Brisson (D-Bladen)
  • District 23: Shelly Willingham (D-Edgecombe)
  • District 24: Jean Farmer-Butterfield (D-Wilson)
  • District 26: Leo Daughtry (R-Johnston)
  • District 27: Michael Wray (D-Northampton)
  • District 28: J.H. Langdon (R-Harnett)
  • District 30: Paul Luebke (D-Durham)
  • District 31: Mickey Michaux (D-Durham)
  • District 32: Nathan Baskerville (D-Vance)
  • District 36: Nelson Dollar (R-Wake)
  • District 38: Yvonne Lewis Holley (D-Wake)
  • District 39: Darren Jackson (D-Wake)
  • District 40: Marilyn Avila (R-Wake)
  • District 43: Elmer Floyd (D-Cumberland)
  • District 45: John Szoka (R-Cumberland)
  • District 46: Ken Waddell (D-Columbus)
  • District 48: Garland Pierce (D-Scotland)
  • District 50: Graig Meyer (D-Orange)
  • District 51: Brad Salmon (D-Harnett)
  • District 56: Verla Insko (D-Orange)
  • District 60: Cecil Brockman (D-Guilford)
  • District 65: Bert Jones (R-Rockingham)
  • District 67: Justin Burr (R-Stanley)
  • District 70: Pat Hurley (R-Randolph)
  • District 71: Evelyn Terry (D-Forsyth)
  • District 75: Donny Lambeth (R-Forsyth)
  • District 78: Allen McNeill (R-Randolph)
  • District 83: Linda Johnson (R-Cabarrus)
  • District 84: Rena Turner (R-Iredell)
  • District 87: Edgar Starnes (R-Catawba)
  • District 89: Mitch Setzer (R-Catawba)
  • District 91: Bryan Holloway (R-Stokes)
  • District 93: Jonathan Jordan (R-Ashe)
  • District 108: John Torbett (R-Gaston)
  • District 111: Tim Moore (R-Cleveland)
  • District 116: Brian Turner (D-Buncombe)