Asheville, North Carolina

===Federal government===
In the [[2012 United States presidential election|2012 presidential election]], [[Barack Obama]] won the entirety of Buncombe County with 55% of the vote. Obama visited the city on a few occasions.<ref>{{cite news |last=James |first=Frank |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/10/17/141415067/obama-hearts-north-carolina-but-it-may-have-lost-that-loving-feeling |title=Obama Hearts North Carolina But It May Have Lost That Loving Feeling : It's All Politics |newspaper=NPR |date=October 17, 2011 |access-date=June 29, 2013 |archive-date=August 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130813230903/http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/10/17/141415067/obama-hearts-north-carolina-but-it-may-have-lost-that-loving-feeling |url-status=live}}</ref> In April 2010, he and his family vacationed in the city.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/16/obama-vacation-first-fami_n_541131.html |work=Huffington Post |first=Nicholas |last=Wing |title=Obama Vacation: First Family To Visit Asheville, North Carolina |date=April 16, 2010 |access-date=October 25, 2011 |archive-date=March 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320101352/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/16/obama-vacation-first-fami_n_541131.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

In the United States presidential election of 2016, [[Hillary Clinton]] won 54% of the vote in Buncombe County and Donald Trump 40%, according to the North Carolina State Board of Elections. In 2020, Joe Biden won 59.74% of the vote in Buncombe County and Donald Trump 38.63%.

Asheville is a college town that, similar to many other American college towns, has seen its partisan lean since 2000 shift from Republican leaning to solidly Democratic — where [[George W. Bush]] won the county by 11 points in 2000, [[Joe Biden]] won the county by 21 points in 2020 — a 32-point swing in two decades.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mahtesian |first1=Charlie |last2=Alexander |first2=Madi |url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/21/gop-college-towns-00106974 |title='This Is a Really Big Deal': How College Towns Are Decimating the GOP |newspaper=[[Politico]] |date=July 21, 2023 |access-date=July 22, 2023 |archive-date=July 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230722111016/https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/21/gop-college-towns-00106974 |url-status=live }}</ref>

North Carolina is represented in the [[United States Senate]] by [[Thom Tillis]] ([[North Carolina Republican Party|R]]–[[Huntersville, North Carolina|Huntersville]]) and [[Ted Budd]] (R–[[Advance, North Carolina|Advance]]). The city of Asheville is located in [[North Carolina's 11th congressional district]], which is currently represented by [[Chuck Edwards]] (R–[[Flat Rock, Henderson County, North Carolina|Flat Rock]]).