Corbin will return as North Carolina’s westernmost senator
Sen. Kevin Corbin, the dean of Western North Carolina’s Republican legislative delegation, will continue his work at the capitol for two more years.
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Macon County native Kevin Corbin just keeps on winning and will return to Raleigh for his third term as the senator for a vast swath of Western North Carolina.
Corbin, who served 10 years on the Macon County Commission and 20 years on the Macon County School Board, was elected to the 120th House District in 2017, served two terms there and is about to complete his second term representing much of the rural west, including Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Jackson, Macon and Swain counties, as well as much of Haywood County.
His recent electoral history has been a portrait of remarkably consistent overachievement; in a district nonpartisan mapping website davesredistricting.org measured at 62.4% Republican performance from 2016 to 2022, Corbin came away with 66.2% of the vote against Democrat Karen Burnette McCracken in 2022 and 66.7% of the vote against another Democrat, Victoria Fox, in 2020.
During his eight years in the General Assembly, Corbin has bucked his party on major issues important to his district — rural broadband and Medicare expansion — while remaining loyal to his conservative roots.
This year, Corbin faced his most serious opponent, attorney and Democrat Adam Tebrugge, of Cullowhee, and earned 66.62%, to Tebrugge’s 33.38%.
As of press time, one precinct in Jackson County had yet to report.
All results are considered unofficial until the State Board of Elections certify the results on Nov. 26.
