Decision Desk HQ · DDHQ unofficial returns updated Nov. 5, 2026, 3:55 p.m. CST (4:55 p.m. EST as displayed); More than 95% of expected vote reported. Uncalled; no winner or party flip declared. Actual Census current120th Congressional District land clipped to shoreline. Gray: undecided; pale North Carolina: context.
Republican Rep. Greg Murphy led Democrat Raymond Smith by just 233 votes in North Carolina's 3rd Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ's unofficial returns. DDHQ had not called the race.
Murphy had 117,583 votes, or 49.35%, to Smith's 117,350, or 49.25%, with more than 95% of the expected vote reported. Libertarian Daniel Cavender had 3,341 votes, or 1.40%. The roughly one-tenth-percentage-point gap leaves the outcome unresolved as counting continues.
