Chuck Edwards

Republican · NC-11 · U.S. House

On the ballot in 2026

NC-11 — U.S. House

Lean R 80%

Chuck Edwards is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Jamie Ager vs. Jennifer Balkcom. Runs on a newly enacted district map.

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Bio

Charles Marion Edwards is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 11th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he represented the 48th district in the North Carolina Senate from 2016 to 2023.

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Record of service

In office: 3.6 years
First took office: 2023 (2 terms)
Seniority: 328 of 437 by time served
Age: 65

District offices

Hendersonville, NC · 828-435-7310

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2023

$8.5M

2024

$11.9M

2025

$10.6M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $5.7M – $26.7M
Liabilities: $2.7M – $8.6M
Net worth: −$2.8M – $24.0M
Since 2023: +$2.1M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 9 assets reported

C. Edwards Group, Inc.$5.0M – $25.0M

Wilson-Edwards Holdings, LLC ⇒ Self Storage$250k – $500k

Better Property Solutions, LLC ⇒ Residential Property 1$100k – $250k

Better Property Solutions, LLC ⇒ Residential Property 2$100k – $250k

Better Property Solutions, LLC ⇒ Residential Property 4$100k – $250k

Better Property Solutions, LLC ⇒ Residential Property 5$100k – $250k

Better Property Solutions, LLC ⇒ Residential Property 3$50k – $100k

McDonald's Corporation (MCD)$15k – $50k

Wilson-Edwards Holdings, LLC ⇒ Commercial Property 3$15k – $50k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.77

Healthcare

R+0.89

Immigration & Border

R+1.00

Guns

R+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.93

Crime & Policing

R+0.99

Defense & Veterans

R+0.99

Economy & Labor

R+0.82

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.92

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.34

Education

R+1.00

Government & Democracy

R+0.93

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Chuck Edwards's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

87%Closest

59%

23%

14%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

10%

Communist Party USA

On the political map

Chuck Edwards (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Edwardssits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
Republican Governance Groupstrongly right · 44 members
Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members

Committees

House Committee on Appropriationscenter · 62 members
Financial Services and General Government National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs (Vice Chair)
House Committee on the Budgetcenter · 37 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Edwards's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.