NOTE: Several of these districts have had their boundaries changed in 2016 due to a Federal Court ruling on racial gerrymandering resulting in redistricting by the state legislature. The court ordered map shown below is correct moving forward.
North Carolina is currently divided into 13 congressional districts, each represented by a member of the United States House of Representatives. After the 2000 Census, the number of North Carolina's seats was increased from 12 to 13 due to the State's increase in population. On February 5, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that the 1st and 12th districts' boundaries were unconstitutional.
List of members of the North Carolinian United States House delegation, their terms, their district boundaries, and the districts' political rating according to the CPVI. The delegation has a total of 13 members, with 10 Republicans, and 3 Democrats. The reason this state is so heavily Republican is due to the massive gerrymandering effort by the Republican party in the state.
Table of United States congressional district boundary maps in the State of North Carolina, presented chronologically. All redistricting events that took place in North Carolina between 1973 and 2013 are shown, congressional composition is listed on the right.
1975-77: 9 Democrats, 2 Republicans
1977-79: 9 Democrats, 2 Republicans
1979-81: 9 Democrats, 2 Republicans
1981-83: 7 Democrats, 4 Republicans
1985-87: 6 Democrats, 5 Republicans
1987-89: 8 Democrats, 3 Republicans
1989-91: 8 Democrats, 3 Republicans
1991-93: 7 Democrats, 4 Republicans
1995-97: 4 Democrats, 8 Republicans
1997-99: 6 Democrats, 6 Republicans
2005-07: 6 Democrats, 7 Republicans
2007-09: 7 Democrats, 6 Republicans