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Donald G. Davis

DemocratDonald G. Davis

U.S. Representative · North Carolina

North Carolina's 1st district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from North Carolina

2 tracked promises, 1 rated

North Carolina · North Carolina's 1st district

North Carolina's 1st district

Their congressional district

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88/100
Trust rating
Strongly keeps promises
88
0 · Broken50 · Mixed100 · Kept
A transparent rescale of the Integrity Score (+75) to 0–100, aggregated from 1 rated promise. Never an opaque single score. Provisional — based on 1 rated promise they could act on; a settled rating needs at least 5.
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How they won their seat

Donald G. Davis won the 2024 U.S. House election in North Carolina (District 1) with 49.5% of the vote (186,341 votes).

49.5%
Win share
186,341
Votes for winner
376,324
Total cast
  • Donald G. Davis · Democrat49.5%
  • Laurie Buckhout · Republican47.8%
  • Tom Bailey · Libertarian2.6%

Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.

Inferred legislative agendas

Donald G. Davis has sponsored legislation including the 'Rural Uplift and Revitalization Assistance Act' and the 'Veterans Jobs Opportunity Act.' His committee memberships include roles related to agriculture and armed services. His voting record indicates that he has voted differently from party lines on a notable percentage of votes. Focus areas (from the record): Rural Development · Agriculture · Veteran Affairs · Community Health · Public Safety Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against the patterns of activity observed in his sponsored bills and voting record. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills or their impact; There is no information on the politician's stated goals or intentions; The record does not provide insight into any unlogged work or additional activities outside of the official record. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Donald G. Davis has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.

Showing 2026. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.

Activity in office

What Donald G. Davis has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.

Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
013263952VotesJan '26: 28 YeaJan '26: 19 NayJan '26Feb '26: 18 YeaFeb '26: 11 NayFeb '26Mar '26: 20 YeaMar '26: 10 NayMar '26Apr '26: 32 YeaApr '26: 15 NayApr '26May '26: 26 YeaMay '26: 8 NayMay '26Jun '26: 31 YeaJun '26: 11 NayJun '26Jul '26: 21 YeaJul '26: 20 NayJul '26Aug '26: 2 YeaAug '26: 0 NayAug '26Sep '26: 8 YeaSep '26: 2 NaySep '26Jan '26: 47 totalFeb '26: 30 totalMar '26: 30 totalApr '26: 47 totalMay '26: 36 totalJun '26: 42 totalJul '26: 50 totalAug '26: 2 totalSep '26: 10 total
Measures voted on:211 passed83 failed

Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.

Vote attendance

96.3%
attendance
283 of 294 roll calls11 missed
Monthly participation rate
0255075100100%Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Sep 26

Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

3bills sponsored
3 pending
01234Bills2026: 3 pending32026

Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.

Independence

22%
Votes against own party
61 of 282 recent votes

How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.

Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bill success rate

0%
0 of 3 sponsored bills became law
3 pending

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$12.2M
Raised, 20222026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$2.5M$5M$7.5M$10M2022: raised $1.9M2022: spent $1.9M20222024: raised $6.1M2024: spent $5.8M20242026: raised $4.3M2026: spent $988K20262022: cash on hand $02024: cash on hand $02026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $368K (10%)10%Large individual (itemized): $1.8M (49%)49%PAC / committee: $1.5M (41%)41%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$368K10%
  • Large individual (itemized)$1.8M49%
  • PAC / committee$1.5M41%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Integrity

Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown

+75 · based on 1 rated promise

  • Championed 1

Teal segments are promises kept; amber and stone segments are promises worked against. The signed score weights each rated promise by significance and evidence confidence. Promise-keeping is shown separately from popularity, finance, disclosure, and stated positions. Methodology is open.

Integrity over time

In office since Jan 2023 · 1 rated promise

The line steps at each recorded assessment and holds between them; it ends on the current published score.

−100 worked against0+100 kept
Integrity Score by assessment date. Score ranges from −100 (worked against) to +100 (kept).
DateIntegrity Score
Sep 202675
Jan 202775 (current, held from last rating)

Promise status over time

How the tracked promise record has evolved.

1 tracked
  • Kept1
  • Against0
  • No opportunity0
  • In progress0
011Sep 2026

Replayed from this official’s sourced assessment history — the bands step only when an assessment is recorded or changed. Based on the most recent roll-call votes on file and the tracked promise assessments; never interpolated.

Not yet scoredNot yet rated 1— tracked, but not counted toward Integrity

Topic coverage

2 promises across 2 topics

What this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.

  • Environment1 promise
  • National Security1 promise

Evidence & significance

Evidence quality

Strongest source cited per promise.

  • Primary (official record)150%
  • Reputable news150%

Significance mix

How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).

10
20
30
40
52

Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.

Tracked promises

2 tracked promises

Championedhigh confidence

Advance the bipartisan Flooding Prevention, Assessment, and Restoration Act (introduced with Rep. Marcus Molinaro) to empower the Natural Resources Conservation Service to improve rural communities' access to federal flood-mitigation programs and enhance flood protection beyond pre-disaster levels.

EnvironmentSpecific · measurablePromised Aug 2023
SourcesWCTI (ABC, Eastern NC)WikipediaOffice of Rep. Don Davis (house.gov)Office of Rep. Don Davis (house.gov)
Not yet rated

Advance the Frontline Fighter Force First Act (H.R. 4027) to modernize Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, requiring the Air Force to report on replacing aging aircraft on a one-for-one basis with next-generation fighter jets.

National SecuritySpecific · measurablePromised Jun 2025
SourcesGoldsboro Daily NewsWikipedia

Verified record

55 sponsored bills · finance on file

Facts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.

Campaign financeas of Mar 31, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $3,232,086, spent $622,857, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Voting record

Total votes
655
Yea
399
Nay
242
Present
2
Not voting
12

Full voting record

655 votes
  • S32Yea
  • S307Yea
120 of 655
Page 1 / 33

Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Positions on record

3 positions on record

The record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.

  • National SecurityStated position

    Advance the Frontline Fighter Force First Act (H.R. 4027) to modernize Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, requiring the Air Force to report on replacing aging aircraft on a one-for-one basis with next-generation fighter jets.

    SourcesGoldsboro Daily NewsWikipedia
    View position & sources
  • Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote

    On record voting NO on Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of United States persons' communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, and known cybersecurity threat signatures. The amendment failed on a 212 to 212 tie.

    SourcesHouse Roll Call Vote 114, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On Agreeing to the Amendment, Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Failed by recorded vote, 212 ayes to 212 noes, April 12, 2024.
    View position & sources
  • EnvironmentStated position

    Advance the bipartisan Flooding Prevention, Assessment, and Restoration Act (introduced with Rep. Marcus Molinaro) to empower the Natural Resources Conservation Service to improve rural communities' access to federal flood-mitigation programs and enhance flood protection beyond pre-disaster levels.

    SourcesWikipediaWCTI (ABC, Eastern NC)
    View position & sources
Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

Disclosure

A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.

No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.

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