Derwin Lamar Montgomery (born September 3, 1988) is a former Democratic member of the

North Carolina House of Representatives The North Carolina House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the North Carolina General Assembly. The House is a 120-member body led by a Speaker of the House, who holds powers similar to those of the President pro-tem in the North Ca ...

, who represented the 72nd district (containing parts of Forsyth County) from 2018 until 2021.

Political career

Montgomery served on the

Winston-Salem Winston-Salem is a city and the county seat of Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States. In the 2020 census, the population was 249,545, making it the second-largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region, the 5th most populous city in N ...

City Council from 2009 through 2018. Montgomery was appointed to complete the unexpired term of Rep. Ed Hanes for the 72nd district in the

in August 2018. He went on to win the election for a full two-year term on 6 November 2018 as the nominee of the

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. He secured seventy-nine percent of the vote while his closest rival, Republican Reginald Reid, secured twenty-one percent. In 2020, Montgomery ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 6th congressional district, but lost the Democratic primary to

Kathy Manning Kathy Ellen Manning (born December 3, 1956) is an American lawyer and politician from North Carolina. She is the U.S. representative from North Carolina's 6th congressional district. The district is in the heart of the Piedmont Triad and includes ...

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Electoral history

2020

2018

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