{"campaigns":[{"candidatename":"Darren C. Allen","chatgptsummary":null,"notes":null,"party":"REP","person":{"biography":"## Current office and 2026 campaign\nDarren Clark Allen is a Republican candidate for North Carolina District Court Judge, District 37, Seat 3, in Randolph County, on the November 3, 2026 general-election ballot, per the NC State Board of Elections' 2026 candidate filing list [2].\n\n## Office history\nAllen previously ran for district court judge in North Carolina's 19B Judicial District (the \"Creed\" seat) in the November 8, 2016 general election, losing to incumbent Don W. Creed Jr., who received 52.20% of the vote to Allen's 47.80% [1]. North Carolina's district court elections were nonpartisan from 2002 through 2016; partisan judicial elections began with the 2018 cycle [1].\n\n## Sources\n[1] [Darren Allen - Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Darren_Allen)\n[2] [North Carolina 2026 Candidate Listing (NCSBE)](https://s3.amazonaws.com/dl.ncsbe.gov/Elections/2026/Candidate%20Filing/Candidate_Listing_2026.csv) \u2014 accessed 2026-07-20","firstname":"Darren","lastname":"Allen","middlename":"Clark","suffix":null,"token":"64b59c7e69dfb2df"},"token":"EF5y8slP3owe21Vg"}],"choices":null,"description":null,"district":null,"districtgroup":null,"districtgroupname":null,"districtname":null,"job_type":null,"o.office":"district_court_judge","office":"district_court_judge","officedescription":"In North Carolina, a district court judge presides over the high-volume lower trial court \u2014 misdemeanors, smaller civil cases, and most family and juvenile matters (custody, support, domestic violence, abuse/neglect). Many litigants appear without lawyers.","officequalities":"- Judge of a high-volume district court \u2014 misdemeanors, smaller civil cases, and family and juvenile matters, often with unrepresented parties.\n- Judicial temperament: the willingness to listen, deliberate, and apply the law dispassionately to people whose lives are deeply affected by the outcome.\n- Impartiality and ethics under the North Carolina Code of Judicial Conduct, including recusal when conflicts arise.\n- Working knowledge of family, juvenile, and criminal procedure and the precedent that controls.\n- Efficient management of a heavy docket while honoring due process.\n- Accessibility and clarity for the many who appear without counsel.","officeterm":4,"officetitle":"District Court Judge","partisan":1,"pgr":"general","quantity":1,"referendum":null,"source":null,"title":"Nc District Court Judge District 37 Seat 03"}