Beth Helfrich

Rep. Beth Helfrich is a former educator and business owner from Davidson running for reelection to the North Carolina House after flipping her district blue in 2024. Beth knows that children are at the heart of any healthy community, and ensuring they inherit a better world is the driving force behind her commitment to public service. She’s running for reelection to the North Carolina House to help ensure the state’s public schools get the funding they need and to fight to make sure the families and businesses in her district have access to the support, infrastructure, and services they need to thrive.

Beth was a DLCC Target candidate in 2024 when she flipped her district blue for the first time since 2018, and this year she’s ready to defend this hard-won seat and keep North Carolina Republicans from gaining an inch of ground in the state House.

North Carolina is one of the most heavily gerrymandered states in the country, which has allowed an increasingly out-of-touch Republican legislative majority to cling to power for decades, even as Democrats have won elections statewide. 

In the 2024 elections, Democrats pulled off a major victory by breaking the GOP supermajority in the state House, giving them the power to protect newly-elected Governor Josh Stein’s veto authority. Now, 2026 presents a historic opportunity to gain ground and end the GOP’s gerrymandered supermajorities in both chambers for good.

Democrats in the North Carolina Senate are just one seat away from breaking the GOP supermajority in their chamber, and Democratic candidates in the House are running to put a Republican supermajority even further out of reach. With competitive races for the U.S. Senate and U.S. House alongside these legislative races,  the DLCC is all hands on deck to help fund the strong campaigns and infrastructure needed to reach voters and win seats in both chambers in November.