City Council · Wake County

Raleigh Ward D

Raleigh · 17 precincts

59,333 registered voters across 17 precincts, with 29,958 unaffiliated (50.5%), growing by 4,451 new registrants this year.

  • Public records
  • Official sources
  • Aggregates only
Raleigh Ward DWeekly file
Registered voters
59,333
NCSBE weekly file
Unaffiliated
29,958
50.5% of the roll
New registrants, this year4,451
Registration by party
Data as of Sep 14, 2026 · weekly file
Precincts
17
Raleigh
Median voter age
34
county: 46
Turnout · 2024 general
39,471
ballots · 67.0%
county: 74.7%
Turnout · 2022 general
22,978
ballots · 39.0%
county: 49.9%
  • #8 of 9 by 2024 turnout
  • #3 by unaffiliated share
  • #1 by new registrants per 1,000

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

This week here

  • Ranked 1st of 9 City Council districts for new registrations per 1,000, with 4,451 new voters added here.
  • 59.7% of new registrants are under 30, far above the 36.5% under-30 share on the full rolls.
  • 67% turnout in 2024 trailed the county's 74.7%, leaving this district 8th of 9 for turnout.

Turnout

Cycle over cycle

General-election turnout by cycle for Raleigh Ward D, 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 General39,47167.0%641,06274.7%-7.7
2022 General22,97839.0%428,03749.9%-10.9
2020 General30,97652.6%556,54464.9%-12.3
2018 General18,87932.1%371,15543.3%-11.2
2016 General20,52234.8%415,53048.4%-13.6

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 · 59,333 voters
Unaffiliated
29,958 · 50.5%
Democratic
22,179 · 37.4%
Republican
6,708 · 11.3%
Other
488 · 0.8%
GenderWomen 25,332 · 42.7%Men 24,162 · 40.7%Unlisted 9,839 · 16.6%
UNAUnaffiliated registration vs last file: down -41DEMDemocratic registration vs last file: up +21REPRepublican registration vs last file: up +3vs 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
18–296,6802,17812,62218621,666
30–447,0991,9449,80322919,075
45–644,8041,4825,3755911,720
65+3,5961,1042,158146,872

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)

4,451 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 Unaffiliated2,66059.8%29,95850.5%
Under 302,65659.7%21,66636.5%

The two columns have different denominators: 4,451 people registered here in 2026, against a standing roll of 59,333 registered voters. Shares may not add to 100 after rounding. Source: NCSBE

Propensity and partisan lean, voter by voterVerified candidates only

All 29,958 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/a14
Rep1n/a4
Una125n/a

The biggest move this week: 12 voters went from unaffiliated to Democratic.

27 party changes recorded in this week’s file.

Precincts

The 17 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
11-016,7444,79570.8%
01-236,0374,02066.7%
01-215,3103,47865.7%
18-015,1393,60965.6%
01-314,1332,35357.6%
Walk lists and household grouping, precinct by precinctVerified candidates only

35,226 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.

1RENAISSANCE PARK
1,451
2CAMERON PARK
593
3FOREST HILLS
581
4WILMONT
511
5WADE
496
6BOYLAN HEIGHTS
472
7CARDINAL HILLS
423
8TRAILWOOD HILLS
418
9PLEASANT RIDGE ESTATES
401
10CRESCENT RIDGE TOWNHOMES
377

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 59,333 registered voters here, the not matched group included.

Apartments and multi-family
36,714

voters here, 61.9% 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: 23,510 voters here, 39.6% 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 59,333 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.

Jane Harrison
Filed Dec 5, 2025 · NCSBE candidate list
Public filing · NCSBE
Jevon Smith-Cook
Filed Dec 19, 2025 · NCSBE candidate list
Public filing · NCSBE
New registrants, delivered weeklyVerified candidates only

4,451 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 City Council map

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

DistrictRegisteredUnaffiliated
Raleigh Ward E70,81045.8%
Raleigh Ward B69,61044.1%
Raleigh Ward A69,09344.5%
Raleigh Ward C67,95841.9%
Raleigh Ward D (this district)59,33350.5%
Cary Ward C35,05749.1%
Cary Ward A33,69454.3%
Cary Ward B29,52248.9%
Cary Ward D26,86356.6%

For candidates in this district

Running here? This page unlocks for you.

Every locked strip above unlocks for verified Raleigh Ward D 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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