North Carolina's 4th congressional district

North Carolina's 4th Congressional District (NC-CD4) is located in the central region of the state. The district includes all of Durham County and Orange County as well as northern Chatham County and a portion of Wake County. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of D+23 in 2025, it is one of the most Democratic districts in North Carolina.

Until 2022 the district was represented by 11-term Congressman David Price, a former political science professor at Duke University, who was first elected in 1986, ousting one-term Republican incumbent Bill Cobey. Price was reelected in 1988, 1990, and 1992, but he was defeated in his bid for a fifth term in 1994 by Republican Fred Heineman, the Raleigh Police Chief, in a generally bad year for Democrats in North Carolina. Price came back to defeat Heineman in a rematch in 1996, and has been reelected each time since then by large margins, usually with more than 60% of the vote. In 2020, Price received 67% of the votes (332,421 votes) to defeat Republican challenger Robert Thomas, who received 33% (161,298 votes).

Before court mandated redistricting in 2016, according to research by Christopher Ingraham of The Washington Post, the district was the third-most gerrymandered Congressional district in North Carolina and seventh-most gerrymandered district in the United States. In contrast, its predecessor was the most regularly drawn of the state's 13 districts.

NC-CD4 is currently represented by Congresswoman Valerie Foushee, who was elected to Congress in November 2022, becoming the first African American and first woman to represent the district. Born and raised in Orange County, N.C., Foushee previously served in the N.C. Senate, N.C. House, Orange County Board of Commissioners, and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board. In Congress, Rep. Foushee serves on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and is the Vice Ranking Member of the Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials subcommittee and a member of the Highways and Transit subcommittee. She also serves on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and is the Ranking Member of the Investigations and Oversight subcommittee and a member of the Energy subcommittee.