WHO REPRESENTS ME?

Everyone (whether you are registered to vote or not) has two people representing them in the North Carolina General Assembly: one person in the North Carolina House – a Representative, and one person in the North Carolina Senate – a Senator.

When you find out who they are, you can contact them by phone, email or letter – or go see them (either in Raleigh or in their home office) and tell them how you feel about the issues that are before the General Assembly. Most elected officials want to know how their constituents (you and your fellow voters) feel: Knowing how the people in their district stand on the issues helps them decide how best to represent them and their wishes.

So, just in case you don’t know who they are, here’s how to find out.

1. Call your county board of elections and give them your address, and ask them to look it up. You can look in the phone book, and the state board has all the local boards listed as well: http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/content.aspx?id=13
2. Call the state board of elections and give them your address, and ask them to look it up. Or follow this link http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/VoterLookup.aspx to look it up yourself. You’ll need your birth date.
3. The General Assembly has a link to help you but you’ll need your nine-digit zip code. To get your nine-digit zip code, go to the US Post Office’s website at http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp

Then follow this link to the General Assembly website to enter that zip code: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/GIS/RandR07/Representation.html#byZIP
For MOST voters, that should tell you who represents you in the NC House, in the NC Senate, and in Congress. Pressing each name listed there will take you to the legislator’s website and you can find contact information. If that doesn’t work, you’ll have to go back to your county or the state board of election – and ask them.

If you get the chance, you might like to visit the General Assembly website and just wander through it. They have a world of information – and you can even listen to the floor debates: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/homePage.pl