Municipality · Wake County

Cary

43 precincts

125,136 registered voters across 43 precincts, with 65,189 unaffiliated (52.1%), growing by 6,279 new registrants this year.

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  • Aggregates only
CaryWeekly file
Registered voters
125,136
NCSBE weekly file
Unaffiliated
65,189
52.1% of the roll
New registrants, this year6,279
Registration by party
Data as of Sep 14, 2026 · weekly file
Precincts
43
Median voter age
48
county: 46
Turnout · 2024 general
95,816
ballots · 77.1%
county: 74.7%
Turnout · 2022 general
66,608
ballots · 53.6%
county: 49.9%
  • #3 of 15 by 2024 turnout
  • #3 by unaffiliated share
  • #14 by new registrants per 1,000

Ranked against the other Municipality districts at the Sep 14, 2026 file.

This week here

  • 48.8% of Cary's 6,279 newest voters are under 30, more than double the 20.9% under-30 share across all registrations.
  • Ranking 14 of 15 municipalities on new registrations per 1,000, Cary is adding voters more slowly than nearly all its siblings.
  • 18 of Cary's 55 party switches ran from no party to Democratic, the largest single switch flow this week.

Turnout

Cycle over cycle

General-election turnout by cycle for Cary, against the Wake County average.

General-election turnout · share of registered

Turnout = ballots cast by today’s registered voters ÷ current registration (current-map basis).

Past elections: district vs county
ElectionDistrictCountyDiff
2024 General95,81677.1%641,06274.7%+2.4
2022 General66,60853.6%428,03749.9%+3.7
2020 General82,76166.6%556,54464.9%+1.7
2018 General56,36745.3%371,15543.3%+2.0
2016 General60,96549.0%415,53048.4%+0.6

Source: NCSBE voter history.

Who has not voted yet: the GOTV listVerified candidates only

Every registered voter here, ranked by likelihood to vote.

Sample shown with synthetic data. Real voter records never appear on public pages.

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Registration & demographics

Who’s registered here

Aggregates from the NCSBE voter file: party, age, race, and gender. The Asian total is enhanced by our CommunityIQ model (estimated, noted below the chart); everything else is the self-reported record.

Registration by party · 125,136 voters
Unaffiliated
65,189 · 52.1%
Democratic
36,734 · 29.4%
Republican
22,434 · 17.9%
Other
779 · 0.6%
GenderWomen 60,385 · 48.3%Men 54,174 · 43.3%Unlisted 10,577 · 8.5%
UNAUnaffiliated registration vs last file: up +32DEMDemocratic registration vs last file: up +3REPRepublican registration vs last file: up +11vs last file
Age of registered voters
Race & ethnicity of registered voters

Asian total enhanced by VoteIQ’s proprietary CommunityIQ model, which estimates likely heritage from voter names. Figures are estimates. How this works

Party mix within each age band
  • Democratic
  • Republican
  • Unaffiliated
  • Other parties
Registered voters by party and age band
AgeDEMREPUNAOTHTotal
18–296,9713,03615,96419426,165
30–449,2043,71215,40232428,642
45–6411,7088,21622,65321742,794
65+8,8517,47011,1704427,535

Each band is measured against its own total, so a smaller band still shows its mix. Bars share a 0 to 100 percent scale. The count beside each band’s largest group is shown on the chart; the table above carries every count. Shares may not add to 100 after rounding. Source: NCSBE

New registrants this year (2026)

6,279 people have registered here in 2026.

New registrants in 2026 compared with the standing roll, count and share of each group
MeasureNew in 2026Standing roll
Chose Unaffiliated3,73759.5%65,18952.1%
Under 303,06448.8%26,16520.9%

The two columns have different denominators: 6,279 people registered here in 2026, against a standing roll of 125,136 registered voters. Shares may not add to 100 after rounding. Source: NCSBE

Propensity and partisan lean, voter by voterVerified candidates only

All 65,189 unaffiliated voters here carry a modeled lean and a turnout score.

Sample shown with synthetic data. Real voter records never appear on public pages.

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Movement

Who’s switching parties

Voters here who changed their party registration between the two most recent voter files. Aggregates only, never voter records.

Row: party left · Column: party joined
Party changes this week, by the party each voter left (rows) and the party each voter joined (columns).
Party leftDemRepUna
Demn/a115
Rep2n/a11
Una185n/a

The biggest move this week: 18 voters went from unaffiliated to Democratic.

55 party changes recorded in this week’s file. The grid covers moves among the three largest affiliations.

Precincts

The 43 precincts

Precinct-level aggregates are public record. Tap a precinct on the map, or switch the lens; the table ranks the largest.

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Largest precincts
PrecinctRegistered’24 turnout
20-156,2894,26668.3%
20-176,0234,58676.1%
20-195,8574,26973.2%
05-065,8134,66877.7%
04-135,0434,30782.1%
Walk lists and household grouping, precinct by precinctVerified candidates only

59,873 doors here. Walk lists group them street by street.

Sample shown with synthetic data. Real voter records never appear on public pages.

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Neighborhoods

Largest neighborhoods

The subdivisions with the most registered voters here, by household geography. Aggregates only, never voter records.

1CARY PARK
1,824
2PRESTON VILLAGE
1,603
3SCOTTISH HILLS
1,341
4CARPENTER VILLAGE
1,166
5PARK VILLAGE PUD
1,131
6LOCHMERE
1,116
7MACGREGOR DOWNS
1,037
8VILLAGE SQUARE AT AMBERLY
1,026
9BROOKSTONE
919
10WELLSLEY
896

Based on geocoded residential addresses (k≥10 suppressed). Coverage expands as more voters are geocoded.

Homes

Homes and turnout

Whether a voter owns or rents is one of the steadier signals behind turnout, and it is not on the voter file. These figures come from Wake County parcel records matched to the file, so a share of voters here has no match at all and is counted separately.

How voters here are housed

Shares are of all 125,136 registered voters here, the not matched group included.

Apartments and multi-family
22,019

voters here, 17.6% of the district, live at an address recorded as an apartment or other multi-family building.

Apartment status is a separate record from ownership, so these voters also appear in the tenure split.

Countywide context

Countywide, owner-occupied households turned out 16.6 points higher than rentals in 2024.

That is a Wake County figure, not this district’s. We do not publish a turnout gap for individual districts.

Not matched is a real category, not a rounding error: 19,603 voters here, 15.7% of the district, have no usable parcel match and are shown as unknown. Those voters stay in the totals above and are never reassigned to owner or renter. Source: Wake County parcel records matched to the NCSBE voter file.

How this district has voted

Shares are of all 125,136 registered voters here. Each voter is grouped by the way they have most often cast a ballot in past elections. This describes what already happened; it is not a prediction of how anyone will vote next time. No recent vote history means no ballot is recorded for that voter in the elections covered here. Those voters are registered and eligible to vote. Shares may not add to 100 after rounding. Source: NCSBE

On the ballot · 2026

Who’s running

Candidates as filed with the State Board of Elections. VoteIQ does not endorse candidates.

No 2026 contests on file for this district. (Municipal seats here are elected in odd years.)
New registrants, delivered weeklyVerified candidates only

6,279 voters registered here this year. Verified candidates get each week's list, with addresses.

Sample shown with synthetic data. Real voter records never appear on public pages.

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Compare

The rest of the Municipality map

Every Municipality district in Wake County, largest first. Your district is marked.

DistrictRegisteredUnaffiliated
Raleigh336,80445.2%
Cary (this district)125,13652.1%
Apex51,06952.7%
Wake Forest39,94344.9%
Fuquay Varina34,60646.5%
Holly Springs34,07549.4%
Garner27,97142.9%
Morrisville17,43353.7%
Knightdale15,75341%
Wendell12,54944%
Rolesville9,26945.5%

For candidates in this district

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Every locked strip above unlocks for verified Cary candidates and their teams: the GOTV list, voter-level propensity and lean, walk lists by precinct, and the weekly new-registrant list.

How we count: district aggregates from the NCSBE weekly voter file. Turnout is the current electorate’s participation in past cycles (current-map basis), never a forecast.

Source: NCSBE voter file & candidate filings · registered = active + inactive (matches the Wake BoE total). Aggregates only.

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