Laurie Buckhout
- Republican · On the Nov 3 ballot for US House, North Carolina District 1
- Raised
- $4.8M
- Cash on hand
- $1.4M
- First race on record
- 2024
- Races
- Won 0 of 1
Spectrum
Centrist is the middle of the scale, not of Congress. How this works
By donors (CFscore, 2024 cycle)
Research estimate from Stanford DIME 4.0. Source
Matched by name only, so it could be the wrong person.
Method and limits
Published score 1.344 on a scale from −2.0 to 2.0, where 0 is the center. 4,497 donors. License: ODC-BY 1.0.
Places a candidate by who gave them money; candidates who share donors sit close together.
Reflects the donor network, not votes or views, and comes from past cycles, not a 2026 reading.
Now
US House, North Carolina District 1
- Newest poll
- Davis 51, Buckhout 41 · Neighborhood Research and Media, Oct 6, 2026 · Polls updated Oct 31, 8:30 p.m. ET, from VoteHub
Career
| Year | Race | Result | Share | Lost to, or other round |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | US House, NC-01 | Lost | 47.8% | Donald G. Davis 49.5% |
About this list
Races in our results files. Other offices, earlier years and most primaries can be missing. A general that went to a runoff counts as neither a win nor a loss.
Money
FEC, through Oct 14, 2026Spent $3.4M · Debts owed $3.1M
Where the money came from
- Individuals$1.1M
- PACs and other committees$534K
- Party committees$6K
- Candidate’s own money$2K
- Loans from the candidate$2.4M
- Transfers from the candidate’s other committees$765K
As the campaign reported to the FEC through Oct 14, 2026. Bars compare these lines. Some money has no line here, so they may not add up to the total raised. Source: FEC candidate summary.
Committees giving to this campaign
120 committees reported giving $428K.
- Buckeye Liberty PACLeadership PAC$15,000
- Koch, Inc. PAC (KOCHPAC)PAC$10,000
- Value in Electing Women PACPAC$10,000
- The Eye of the Tiger PACLeadership PAC$10,000
- The Guardian FundJoint fundraising committee$10,000
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- First in Freedom PACLeadership PAC$10,000
- Seal PAC Supporting Electing American Leaders PACPAC$10,000
- Electing Majority Making Effective Republicans PACLeadership PAC$10,000
- Ranger PACPAC$8,000
- Second Front Systems Inc PACPAC$6,845
- Freedom's Defense FundPAC$6,000
- Jim Jordan for CongressCandidate committee$6,000
- No Nonsense PACPAC$6,000
- Fight on PACLeadership PAC$6,000
- Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. PAC (ABC PAC)PAC$5,000
- NRCCParty committee$5,000
- Cpac Action PACPAC$5,000
- Drummond Company, Inc. PAC (DPAC)PAC$5,000
- Republican Mainstreet Partnership PACPAC$5,000
- Susan B. Anthony List. Inc. Candidate Fund (DBA Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America Candidate Fund)PAC$5,000
The largest 20 are listed. Refunds the committees reported are taken out. Independent spending isn’t included. These figures come from the committees’ own reports, so they can differ from the campaign’s lines above, sometimes by a lot. Source: FEC committee-to-candidate file, dated Oct 25, 2026.
Reports through Oct 14, 2026. Matched to the FEC by name, party and seat, so it could be the wrong person.
How these are counted
Later filings are not in yet. Totals for the 2025 to 2026 cycle. Raised $4,787,737. Cash on hand $1,437,901. Spent $3,376,140. Debts owed $3,101,000. Individuals $1,080,429. PACs and other committees $533,788. Party committees $5,700. Candidate’s own money $1,740. Loans from the candidate $2,401,000. Other loans $0. Transfers from the candidate’s other committees $764,590. Main committee: Laurie Buckhout for Congress. No individual donor names are shown.
More about Laurie Buckhout
Official pages (1 link)
Sources (8 sources)
Ballot listing, s3.amazonaws.com
Name, party, office and status. Retrieved Oct 25, 2026.
Federal 2026 candidates: money totals (web/data/people/money) and the MN federal filing list. Bulk files, no API and no key. Retrieved Oct 31, 2026. License: US government work, public domain. Totals and committee names only; no donor names or addresses are stored.
FEC bulk data 2025-2026: contributions from committees to candidates (pas226)
Federal 2026 candidates: committees giving to each candidate (web/data/people/money-types). Bulk file, no API and no key. Retrieved Oct 31, 2026. License: US government work, public domain. Committee totals only; the individual contributions file is not used.
Stanford DIME public v4.0, recipients file (CFscores)
CFscores for candidates and officials; web/data/ideology/dime.json and aggregate.json. A research estimate by Adam Bonica, not an official measure. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: ODC-BY 1.0.
Compiled by Adam Bonica, Stanford University Libraries (built from campaign finance filings) from official returns. Not an official source.
Bonica, Adam. 2024. Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections: Public version 4.0 [Computer file]. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Libraries. https://data.stanford.edu/dime .
Election Wrld 2026 candidate files (state election office lists)
Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: state public records; see each row's sourceUrl.
FEC candidate master file (cnYY.zip bulk download)
Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: US government work, public domain.
Stanford DIME v4.0 recipients file
Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: ODC-BY 1.0.
MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House 1976-2024
Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: CC0 1.0.
Officials files, 2026 candidate files, returns files, DIME, FEC candidate master and congress-legislators terms, as of 2026-10-29. Nothing about jobs, retirement, or reasons is recorded or inferred.
Not available for Laurie Buckhout: a background, an age.
DataSources: FEC, DIME (ODC-BY), Results filesData as of Oct 29, 2026Photo credits