Source: http://www.thecrosstab.com/2018/05/08/may-8-recap/

Huh. NC-09 got a bit more interesting last night. A Baptist minister who pushed NC’s Amendment 1 banning gay marriage primaried the current Republican incumbent, turning the election into an open seat. His Democratic opponent is a Marine vet and former Republican.

District looks pretty gerrymandered, of course, diluting Charlotte with a bunch of rural counties. It also includes a piece of Fayetteville, home of Ft. Bragg:

(By 1: GIS shapefile data created by the United States Department of the Interior and the USGS., and published for public use by the US. Census Bureau. Retrieved from: https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/cbf/cbf_cds.html Data was rendered using ArcGIS® software by Esri. 3: File developed for use on Wikipedia and elsewhere by 7partparadigm. – https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/cbf/cbf_cds.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=58986277 — Holy cow, that’s a lengthy attribution.)