Rep. Renée Price is slated to earn the Democratic nomination — and general election victory — in District 50 of the North Carolina House of Representatives based on the unofficial primary election results.
Price led with 74.91% of the vote over healthcare nonprofit worker Mary Lucas (21.56%) and Reidsville resident Brandall Redd (3.54%) during the early returns, and maintained her strong lead through the night. She ultimately finished with roughly 6,400 more votes than Lucas, which positions the third legislator to serve a third term in the state House.
In an interview with 97.9 The Hill, Price said she believes her stance and voting record on pressing issues at the state legislature helped her campaign resonate with voters in Orange and Caswell counties. While the General Assembly has done little in 2026 amid a prolonged budget stalemate between the Republican-led House and Senate, the Hillsborough resident said she plans on continuing to advocate for funding public schools, protecting reproductive rights, funding Medicaid, and affordable housing efforts despite operating in the minority party for the rest of 2026 and potentially in her third term.
“I saw that some of their colleagues lost their primaries…so we’ll have different players,” Price said, referencing potential change in the chambers in 2027. “Whether they’ll be more compassionate or the other extreme, we don’t know. But I do think that the more that legislators like myself try to connect with our constituents, with our communities and we build a groundswell of support…we can make a difference, we can move the needle.
“Sometimes it doesn’t matter if you’re Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, whatever…it’s common sense,” she added of passing legislation through bipartisan efforts. “If we can get common sense legislators in league with common sense organizations, individuals and community groups, we can make a change. I really think we can.”
Price, who is a former Orange County Commissioner and an artist, first earned election to N.C. House District 50 in 2022 and earned re-election unopposed in 2024. She campaigned as an experienced legislator who uses social justice and civil rights as guiding principles to her decision-making — citing her support of Medicaid expansion and votes against Republican-led efforts to limit abortion access and efforts to curtail local government’s control over zoning as examples.
With no Republican candidate filed in District 50 this cycle, Price will likely be easily elected in the November general election. She said she is looking forward to using the summer and fall to put her energy toward supporting Democrats in other key races in the state — chiefly, Justice Anita Earls in the State Supreme Court election and Roy Cooper in his run for U.S. Senate. She also thanked the communities in Orange and Caswell counties for their continued support and trust in her to represent their values.
Additional results from around Orange and Chatham counties on Tuesday night can be found on Chapelboro’s 2026 Primary Election Results page.
Featured photo via the Renée Price Campaign.
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