{"biography":"## Current office and 2026 campaign\n\nGregory Wallace West, who filed for the ballot as \"Greg West,\" is the Republican candidate for Haywood County Tax Collector in North Carolina. He filed for the seat on December 1, 2025, and ran in the March 3, 2026 Republican primary alongside Andrew Ferguson and Emily Sapp, per North Carolina State Board of Elections candidate filing records [1][2].\n\nBallotpedia's profile of West states that it did not receive biographical information from him and that he had not completed its Candidate Connection survey as of its most recent update; the profile lists a contact email of gregwest381@gmail.com for reaching him [2].\n\nNo further public biographical, educational, or professional information about West was located in the sources consulted.\n\n## Sources\n\n[1] North Carolina State Board of Elections -- [2026 General Election Candidate Detail List by County (PDF)](https://s3.amazonaws.com/dl.ncsbe.gov/Elections/2026/Candidate%20Filing/2026_general_candidate_detail_list.pdf), Haywood County -- accessed 2026-07-19\n\n[2] [Greg West (Haywood County Tax Collector, North Carolina, candidate 2026) - Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_West_(Haywood_County_Tax_Collector,_North_Carolina,_candidate_2026))","campaigns":[{"contest":"tax_collector","county":"haywood","county_count":1,"electiondate":"Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT","pgr":"general","state":"NC","title":"Haywood County Tax Collector"},{"contest":"tax_collector","county":"haywood","county_count":1,"electiondate":"Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT","pgr":"general","state":"NC","title":"Haywood County Tax Collector"}],"cf_filings":[],"firstname":"Gregory","fullname":"Gregory Wallace West","lastname":"West","middlename":"Wallace","office_history":[{"campaigns":[{"contest":"tax_collector","contest_title":"Haywood County Tax Collector","county":"haywood","county_count":1,"electiondate":"2026-11-03","office_county":"haywood","office_key":"tax_collector","office_title":"Tax Collector","party":"REP","pgr":"general","state":"NC"},{"contest":"tax_collector","contest_title":"Haywood County Tax Collector","county":"haywood","county_count":1,"electiondate":"2026-03-03","office_county":"haywood","office_key":"tax_collector","office_title":"Tax Collector","party":"REP","pgr":"general","state":"NC"}],"county":"haywood","cycles":[{"general":{"contest":"tax_collector","contest_title":"Haywood County Tax Collector","county":"haywood","county_count":1,"electiondate":"2026-03-03","office_county":"haywood","office_key":"tax_collector","office_title":"Tax Collector","party":"REP","pgr":"general","state":"NC"},"party":"REP","primary":null,"term":null,"year":2026}],"office_key":"tax_collector","office_title":"Tax Collector","state":"NC","terms":[]}],"summary":"Gregory Wallace West is the Republican candidate for Haywood County Tax Collector in the 2026 North Carolina election.","terms":[],"token":"39303d425a2df693"}