Roy Cooper
Governor candidate from North Carolina, undefeated in 2 races
Democratic
Governor
Electoral Grade
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Requires 3+ graded races
2
Races
2-0
W-L (100%)
+2.4
Avg Margin
2016–2020
Career Span
Best: +4.5 (2020 Governor)Worst: 0.2 (2016 Governor)
100%
Win Rate
-5.9
Avg Overperformance
2
Win Streak
4 yrs
Career Span
5.1M
Career Votes
Evidence & provenance
Source owners
Certified contest returns, candidate career records, and Akashic Edge deterministic grading inputs.
Freshness
Rendered Apr 14, 2026 from the latest candidate, contest, and forecast tables loaded in Akashic Edge.
Boundary scope
Candidate-level profile spanning every contest recorded for this person in Akashic Edge.
Claim type
Deterministic summaries, calculated grades, and certified election history. No freeform AI prose.
2026
Safe D
Current Polling
Live race polling for Roy Cooper’s currently tracked contest. These snapshots update with the broader polling layer, so candidate pages inherit the current environment automatically.
NC Senate
Challenger context with current polling, confidence, recent trend, and raw poll table.
2026 North Carolina Senate General Election
Polling tracker for the 2026 North Carolina senate general election.
4 pollsLow
Field Average
Roy Cooper
Average 48.8% · Latest 48.0%
4 polls
Michael Whatley
Average 37.5% · Latest 34.0%
4 polls
Quality
Field Average
Average support across the current primary field.
Career Margin Trend2 races
Career Timeline
2,834,790
Candidate Votes
51.5%
Vote %
5,502,777
Total Votes
+4.5%
Margin
Electoral Performance
+1.8
Race Score
+4.8
vs. State Pres.
D-0.3
State Pres.
Geographic Performance
2 races with county data
County-level results, strongest and weakest counties, and performance by county type.
Unlock with Pro$33/moCounty Results Table
Sortable, searchable table of every county result for each race.
Unlock with Pro$33/moDemographic Coalition Analysis
2 races available
Scatter plots correlating county performance with demographics: race, education, income, foreign-born.
Unlock with Insider$99/moOpponents Faced2 opponents
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