Allison Anne Dahle (born March 25, 1964) is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she is a member of the

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. Dahle has represented the 11th district (including parts of

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) since 2019.

Personal life

Dahle was born at

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. Her mother, Anne Clark Dahle, was a longtime educator at

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, and her father, Dr. Robert Dahle, was an

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. She attended

Needham B. Broughton High School Needham B. Broughton High School (commonly known as Broughton High School) is one of thirty-two high schools in the Wake County Public School System. It is located at 723 St. Mary's Street, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Broughton was ...

and graduated from the

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with a degree in Theatre and Speech. After her graduation, she worked as a

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, and later for the

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. Later, she worked for the Arc of North Carolina. Dahle identifies as a

lesbian A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate nouns with female homosexu ...

,"When Allison Dahle Challenged Duane Hall, She Didn’t Expect to Win. Then Everything Changed"
''

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'', March 21, 2018. making her one of four openly LGBTQ officeholders in the North Carolina state legislature, alongside

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and Cecil Brockman.

Political career

After defeating incumbent Duane Hall in the Democratic primary, Dahle was elected to the

on November 6, 2018. She secured sixty-nine percent of the vote while her closest rival Republican Brennan Brooks secured twenty-seven percent. Dahle was re-elected in 2020, 2022, and 2024.

Electoral history

2024

2022

2020

2018

Committee assignments

2021-2022 session

*Appropriations *Appropriations - General Government *Alcoholic Beverage Control *Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform (Vice Chair) *Ethics *Local Government - Land Use, Planning and Development

2019-2020 session

*Appropriations *Appropriations - Agriculture and Natural and Economic Resources *Alcoholic Beverage Control *Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform *Homelessness, Foster Care, and Dependency

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