Four vying for Asheboro mayor's seat. Early voting begins Thursday

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Published September 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM EDT

Early voting begins Thursday for many North Carolina municipal primaries.

In Randolph County, the open seat for mayor of Asheboro is among the key races. Four candidates have filed to replace longtime officeholder David Smith. Smith is not seeking re-election.

The field includes sitting Council Members Eddie Burks and Joey Trogdon, as well as Brett Thompson and Jen Bucardo.

Fourteen candidates have filed for four seats on the Asheboro City Council. The primary will reduce the field for the general municipal election in November.

Many of the other races across the county did not have enough candidates to merit a primary.

Early voting runs through Oct. 4 and will be held at the Randolph County Board of Elections Office in Asheboro.

Paul Garber

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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