Donald G. Davis
Democrat · NC-1 · U.S. House
NC-1 — U.S. House
Toss-up 62%Donald G. Davis is on the ballot. Don Davis vs. Laurie Buckhout. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Donald Gene Davis is an American politician and former Air Force officer serving as the United States representative for North Carolina's 1st congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the North Carolina Senate, representing the 5th district from 2009 to 2011 and again from 2013 to 2023.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.7 years
- First took office
- 2023 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 326 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 55
- Elizabeth City, NC · 252-999-7600
- Rocky Mount, NC · 252-999-7600
- Goldsboro, NC · 252-999-7600
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
- $16k – $65k
- Liabilities
- $115k – $300k
- Net worth
- −$284k – −$50k
- Since 2021
- −$109k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 2 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
Donald G. Davis'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
Donald G. Davis (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 Davissits 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
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
- Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Committees
- House Committee on Agriculturecenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Davis'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
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