NC-11 Republicans elect new chair
Merry Guy. NCGOP photo
Merry Guy, former chair of the Henderson County Republican Party, will now serve as chair of the 11th Congressional District after defeating incumbent Michele Woodhouse at the district convention in Haywood County on April 26.
Guy previously served several terms on the state executive committee, the state credentialling committee and the state election integrity committee.
Woodhouse, who had previously served as district chair from 2021 until she stepped down to run in the 2022 Republican Congressional Primary Election, was reelected as chair on Dec. 9, 2023. That Primary Election saw then-state Sen. Chuck Edwards (R-Henderson) narrowly edge incumbent Rep. Madison Cawthorn. Edwards went on to defeat Buncombe County Democrat Jasmine Beach-Ferrara in the General Election by more than nine points.
“The work that we did delivering Western North Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Helene, nothing like that’s ever been seen before,” Woodhouse said. “We rose to the occasion and overdelivered in every race. I wish the new administration the best of luck and all eyes will continue to be on WNC because of the Democrat commitment to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in North Carolina on our U.S. Senate race, General Assembly races and local races.”
— Cory Vaillancourt, Politics Editor
