Chuck Edwards
Republican · NC-11 · U.S. House
NC-11 — U.S. House
Lean R 68%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.
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.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.7 years
- First took office
- 2023 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 328 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 66
- Hendersonville, NC · 828-435-7310
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
- 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
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)
Issue profile
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.
On the political map
Chuck Edwards (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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 · 141 members
Committees
- House Committee on Appropriationscenter · 63 members
- 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.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
- House GOP censures one of its own over conduct with female staffers - The Washington Post
House GOP censures one of its own over conduct with female staffersThe Washington Post North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards is formally censured over harassment allegationsNPR House censures Rep. Chuck Edwards over "inappropriate conduct" toward aidesCBS News Ho…
Slashdot.org · September 2, 2026 
Chuck Edwards Apologizes to Wife on House Floor Amid Censure VoteRepresentative Chuck Edwards apologized to his wife and family on the House floor Tuesday as lawmakers prepared to vote on a resolution censuring the North Carolina Republican over his conduct toward two former female staffers. Edwards expressed regret for th…
Biztoc.com · September 2, 2026- House Censures Republican Accused of Sexually Harassing Two Aides - The New York Times
House Censures Republican Accused of Sexually Harassing Two AidesThe New York Times House censures Chuck Edwards over "sexual harassment" of staffaxios.com Edwards Mounts His Defense: ‘Poetry Is Not Sexual Misconduct’News of the United States - NOTUS House ce…
Slashdot.org · September 2, 2026 
House censures North Carolina Republican Rep. Chuck EdwardsThe House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday evening to censure Rep. Chuck Edwards following allegations of sexual harassment.
Abcnews.com · September 1, 2026
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