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Triad-Area Congressional Incumbents Cruise To Reelection

Redistricting has drastically transformed area Congressional boundaries. Image: N.C. General Assembly map courtesy ncleg.gov

The Triad's congressional districts look nothing like they did just two years ago. But despite the changes, Republicans were able to easily win all the seats that they held.

In the 5th District, Virginia Foxx defeated Democrat David Wilson Brown. In the 10th District, Patrick McHenry defeated David Parker, and in the 13th Ted Budd defeated Scott Huffman.

Court-ordered redistricting effectively moved the three districts into more urban areas surrounding urban Guilford and Forsyth counties.

None of the races were close, with all three candidates earning more than 60 percent of the vote.

Democrats did pick up a seat in the newly drawn 6th District, where Kathy Manning prevailed for a seat that now represents Greensboro and most of High Point and Winston-Salem.

The results are unofficial until certified by the State Board of Elections.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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