As the filing deadline has passed, the official list of candidates for the 2016 House of Representatives Elections in North Carolina is as follows (incumbents marked):
District 1:G. K. Butterfield (incumbent)C. L. CookeSafe D district with a safe D incumbent. Cooke is a nobody; I doubt he'll get much above 20%.
District 2:Adam CokerRenee Ellmers (incumbent)
Frank Roche
Jim Duncan
Kay Daly
Tim D'AnnuzioEllmers is basically one of only two incumbents this cycle with an actual chance of losing; she has four primary contenders from the right and she's pretty unpopular even in her own district. Each of her challengers seems to have a decent campaign infrastructure, and I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Roche, Duncan, or D'Annuzio won, especially considering there will probably be a number of tea party/pro-life groups backing them. Daly, on the other hand,
has the best advertisement. She seems to imply that she's willing to assassinate Ellmers, but, you know, whatever. Any R is safe in the GE.
District 3:David Hurst Walter B. Jones (incumbent)
Taylor Griffin
Phil LawAnother interesting race, in which independent-streaky Jones is up in his primary against more traditional Republican Taylor Griffin and the irrelevant Phil Law (though he does have a cool campaign bus). Griffin challenged and nearly defeated Jones in 2014, having been backed by Sarah Palin, a number of GOP establishment figures, and even a few Tea Party activists looking for voting consistency (Jones can be rebellious sometimes). Not quite sure who'll win here, but it won't be Hurst.
District 4:David Price (incumbent)Sue Googe
Teiji KimballGooge will probably beat Kimball in the GOP primary considering the latter is fairly controversial and pretty weird, but it honestly doesn't matter, because Price is safe.
District 5:Josh BrannonVirginia Foxx (incumbent)
Pattie CurranFoxx isn't going anywhere. Pattie Curran is one of those "electile dysfunction" protest sign people.
District 6:Bruce Davis
Jim Roberts
Pete GlidewellMark Walker (incumbent)
Chris HardinSafe for Walker.
District 7:J. Wesley CasteenDavid Rouzer (incumbent)
Mark D. OttoI'm pretty pissed here, because J. Wesley Casteen was the Libertarian candidate in NC-07 last year and nobody cares about him. I'm not even sure "Mark D. Otto" exists but I hope he wins, tbh.
District 8:Thomas MillsRichard Hudson (incumbent)Safe Hudson
District 9:Christian CanoRobert Pittenger (incumbent)
George RoucoSafe Pittenger
District 10:Andy MillardPatrick McHenry (incumbent)
Albert L. WileySafe McHenry
District 11:Rick Bryson
Tom HillMark Meadows (incumbent)Safe Meadows
District 12:Alma Adams (incumbent)
Gardenia Henley
Juan Antonio MarinLeon Threatt
Ryan DuffieSafe Adams
District 13:Ron Sanyal
John P. McNeilGeorge Holding (incumbent)Safe Holding
So basically, all of the incumbents are pretty much guaranteed their reelection except for Ellmers and Jones, both of whom face sizeable primary challenges. They each have a good chance of keeping their seats, but you never know.