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2024StatewideR+3.2

Boundary by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab

County100 areas · 2024 presidential vote

Durham144,45032,853D+61.7180,912 Orange65,44420,806D+50.887,807 Mecklenburg376,469187,777D+32.7577,527 Hertford6,1713,556D+26.69,818 Wake402,984236,735D+25.4653,580 Buncombe98,66259,016D+24.7160,510 Edgecombe14,9029,356D+22.724,451 Guilford171,118109,077D+21.8285,053 Warren5,8723,976D+18.910,013 Halifax14,0149,778D+17.723,965 Bertie5,2793,840D+15.79,186 Northampton5,2393,905D+14.59,215 Cumberland78,63159,840D+13.4140,513 Vance11,2928,614D+13.320,092 Forsyth114,14587,292D+13.1204,726 Chatham29,01422,507D+12.452,301 Washington3,1382,768D+6.25,944 Pitt45,59640,403D+6.087,131 Watauga17,22515,254D+6.033,095 Hoke11,89610,547D+5.922,767 New Hanover68,81467,949D+0.6138,734 Wilson19,90919,750D+0.440,045 Nash25,50826,431R+1.852,471 Anson5,2535,525R+2.510,875 Pasquotank9,54910,537R+4.920,343 Lenoir12,70014,564R+6.827,503 Scotland6,7547,767R+6.914,626 Cabarrus54,49463,746R+7.7120,202 Alamance40,62447,937R+8.189,831 Jackson9,74611,796R+9.321,942 Granville14,36817,385R+9.432,109 Martin5,3606,601R+10.312,040 Transylvania8,97211,492R+12.120,780 Franklin18,16723,938R+13.542,667 Henderson29,36139,497R+14.569,974 Wayne22,61831,580R+16.454,762 Lee12,24517,489R+17.430,081 Greene3,4374,965R+18.18,450 Dare10,07414,792R+18.725,196 Bladen6,62010,035R+20.416,764 Craven22,01133,477R+20.456,173 Richmond7,78711,931R+20.919,873 Tyrrell6801,057R+21.51,757 Johnston48,11674,878R+21.5124,678 Gates2,2683,538R+21.65,868 Hyde9311,465R+22.12,421 Chowan2,8954,587R+22.47,552 Madison5,0908,275R+23.413,621 Swain2,6434,311R+23.77,052 Person8,29513,509R+23.722,036 Caswell4,4937,445R+24.512,040 Brunswick40,55767,658R+24.8109,378 Gaston44,06273,828R+25.0119,256 Harnett23,47239,440R+25.063,757 Haywood13,91323,393R+25.037,851 Polk4,8278,107R+25.113,068 Union51,16886,271R+25.2139,355 Jones2,0073,409R+25.75,463 Robeson16,72829,647R+27.646,770 Duplin8,05714,677R+28.922,898 Moore21,44939,633R+29.461,819 Sampson9,79718,178R+29.728,201 Beaufort9,04917,296R+31.026,572 Pamlico2,6765,229R+32.07,976 Iredell36,73972,801R+32.5110,875 Columbus8,64817,592R+33.926,402 Yancey3,6357,511R+34.311,285 Pender12,46026,042R+34.938,909 Cleveland16,60334,654R+34.951,706 Rockingham15,67633,447R+35.849,595 Rowan23,78850,807R+35.875,394 Onslow25,68454,960R+35.881,681 Montgomery4,0459,026R+37.813,179 Macon6,67514,981R+37.921,934 Catawba26,56959,577R+37.987,109 Perquimans2,2695,278R+39.37,666 Burke13,27232,130R+41.145,847 Carteret12,81332,508R+43.045,817 Ashe4,43111,629R+44.316,253 Lincoln14,84240,183R+45.655,582 Davie6,98819,398R+46.226,850 Davidson24,15067,959R+46.993,452 Rutherford8,91425,456R+47.734,670 Currituck4,60413,235R+47.818,053 McDowell5,91117,520R+49.123,655 Clay1,8995,761R+50.07,728 Camden1,5224,716R+50.76,304 Stanly8,88127,518R+50.836,714 Alleghany1,5334,900R+51.86,496 Avery2,2207,181R+52.39,489 Caldwell10,14633,009R+52.543,540 Surry8,61328,565R+53.237,508 Mitchell1,9186,844R+55.78,846 Randolph15,95159,357R+57.176,008 Cherokee3,68613,883R+57.217,824 Stokes5,38021,548R+59.527,175 Wilkes7,19428,812R+59.536,320 Alexander4,06016,404R+59.720,677 Yadkin3,73916,439R+62.320,397 Graham8393,883R+63.74,779

North Carolina last voted for a Democrat for president in 2008, when Barack Obama carried it by three-tenths of a point — and it has gone the other way every cycle since, by margins that have stayed narrow: R+2.0 in 2012, R+3.7 in 2016, R+1.3 in 2020, and R+3.2 in 2024. Donald Trump carried it again last year, 2,898,429 votes to 2,715,382, the one Southern battleground he held while Georgia stayed within two points and Arizona within six. The whole state turned out 5.7 million voters. Twenty-two of its hundred counties went Democratic, and seventy-eight Republican, the split that has defined the modern map.

The Democratic vote sits in two places. The urban crescent runs through the largest counties — Mecklenburg, holding Charlotte, at D+32.7; Wake, around Raleigh, at D+25.4; Durham at D+61.7, the widest county margin in the state; Guilford, around Greensboro, at D+21.8; and Forsyth, around Winston-Salem, at D+13.1 — five counties that together cast more than 1.9 million votes. The second is the Black east, the old plantation belt along the Virginia line, where Hertford voted D+26.6 and Edgecombe D+22.7. Against them the rural west and the coastal plain run Republican, out to Graham County in the mountains at R+63.7, the state’s widest the other way.

The suburbs are where the state is decided, and the registration map shows the ground shifting under it. North Carolina records party registration, and in 2008 Democrats held 2.78 million registered voters to the Republicans’ 1.95 million. By 2024 the order had inverted: 2.97 million voters registered with neither party, ahead of 2.46 million Democrats and 2.35 million Republicans. The state also splits its ticket — in 2024 it gave Trump the presidential vote and elected Josh Stein, a Democrat, governor on the same night. Underneath sits a state of 10.7 million, 60 percent White and 20 percent Black, 26.5 percent Evangelical and 8th of fifty in that share.

presidential margin

2004–2024 · Democratic minus Republican

2004R+12.4

2008D+0.3

2012R+2.0

2016R+3.7

2020R+1.3

2024R+3.2

full record · 1892 → 2024

presidential returns

2024 turnout 72.2% of 7,898,160 citizens 18+

Year	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	CVAP	Turnout
2024	2,715,382	2,898,429	85,344	5,699,155	7,898,160	72.2%
2020	2,684,292	2,758,775	81,737	5,524,804	7,636,496	72.3%
2016	2,189,316	2,362,631	189,617	4,741,564	7,203,790	65.8%
2012	2,178,391	2,270,395	56,586	4,505,372	6,826,612	66.0%
2008	2,142,651	2,128,474	39,664	4,310,789	6,458,600	66.7%
2004	1,525,849	1,961,166	13,992	3,501,007	6,090,588^†	57.5%

^† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.

People and households

Who lives here

Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.

Race · ethnicity · ancestry

Communities and origins

English12.7%9.5%

German9.4%12.5%

Irish8.4%9.4%

American8.3%5.3%

Italian3.3%4.8%

Scottish2.3%1.3%

Scotch-Irish1.4%—

Polish1.0%2.2%

African American†18.3%9.9%

African0.7%0.5%

Nigerian0.2%0.2%

Jamaican0.2%0.4%

Mexican5.6%11.3%

Puerto Rican1.2%1.8%

Salvadoran0.7%0.7%

Honduran0.7%0.3%

Guatemalan0.4%0.5%

Cuban0.3%0.7%

Dominican0.3%0.7%

Colombian0.3%0.4%

Asian Indian1.2%1.4%

Chinese0.4%1.3%

Vietnamese0.3%0.6%

Filipino0.2%0.9%

Korean0.2%0.4%

Lumbee0.4%—

Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.

Age and life stage

Measure	North Carolina	United States
Median age	39.5	39.1
Age 18–24	9.5%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	17.2%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	North Carolina	United States
Median household income	$72,388	$84,427
Poverty rate	13.1%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	35.8%	35.6%

Languages at home

Measure	North Carolina	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	13.5%	22.3%
Spanish	8.7%	13.6%
Other Indo-European	1.1%	2.0%

Religious landscape

Measure	North Carolina	United States
Catholic	8.9%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	26.5%	16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted	48.0%	51.5%
Mainline Protestant	9.1%	5.2%

American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.

current representation

Current officeholders

DJosh SteinGovernor

DRachel HuntLieutenant Governor

DElaine MarshallSecretary of State

DJeff JacksonAttorney General

RDave BoliekState Auditor

RBrad BrinerState Treasurer

DMo GreenSuperintendent of Public Instruction

RSteve TroxlerCommissioner of Agriculture

RMike CauseyCommissioner of Insurance

RLuke FarleyCommissioner of Labor

RTed BuddU.S. Senate+0.63

RThom TillisU.S. Senate+0.39

U.S. House14 seats · D 4 · R 10

DNC-01Donald Davis

DNC-02Deborah Ross

RNC-03Gregory Murphy

DNC-04Valerie Foushee

RNC-05Virginia Foxx

RNC-06Addison McDowell

RNC-07David Rouzer

RNC-08Mark Harris

RNC-09Richard Hudson

RNC-10Pat Harrigan

RNC-11Chuck Edwards

DNC-12Alma Adams

RNC-13Brad Knott

RNC-14Tim Moore

Statewide officers curated as of 2026-06-27 (Ballotpedia / state SoS); U.S. delegation from Voteview HSall_members.csv.

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