1974 general · November 4, 1974
1974 North Carolina State Senate election results, district by district
Every North Carolina State Senate district in the 1974 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.
Seats after the election
Democrats controlled the chamber · 50 seats
After the electionD 49 · R 1
Races27
Changed party2
Unopposed30%8 races
Incumbents defeated9
Every district
D 49 · R 1
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| SD-1 | Melvin R. Daniels · J. J. Harrington (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-2 | D. Livingston Stallings (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-3 | William D. Mills (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-4 | W. G. Smith (D) | 11.0 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| SD-5 | Harold W. Hardison (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-6 | Julian R. Allsbrook · Vernon E. White (D) | 39.7 | |
| SD-7 | J. Russell Kirby · Dallas Alford (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-8 | Thomas E. Strickland (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-9 | Edward Renfrow (D) | 20.3 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| SD-10 | Glenn Jernigan · John T. Henley (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-11 | Edd Nye (D) | 54.1 | |
| SD-12 | Luther Johnson Britt Jr. (D) | 68.8 | |
| SD-13 | Kenneth C. Royall Jr. · Willis P. Whichard (D) | Unopposed | |
| SD-14 | Bobby Barker · John W. Winters · William W. Staton (D) | 9.1 | |
| SD-15 | Wesley D. Webster · George W. Marion Jr. (D) | 10.7 | |
| SD-16 | Charles Vickery · Russell Walker (D) | 10.7 | |
| SD-17 | James B. Garrison · Mary Horne Odom (D) | 21.8 | |
| SD-18 | Ralph H. Scott (D) | 23.1 | |
| SD-19 | McNeill Smith · Lynwood Smith · Katherine Hagen Sebo (D) | 0.6 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-20 | E. Lawrence Davis · Carl Totherow (D) | 0.8 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-21 | Jack Childers · Tom Suddarth (D) | 6.2 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-22 | James D. McDuffie · Fred D. Alexander · Herman A. Moore · Cy N. Bahakel (D) | 2.1 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-23 | Bobby Lee Combs · Pleas Lackey (D) | 0.8 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-24 | J. Wade Walsh · Donald R. Kincaid (DEM) | 0.0 | Incumbent lost |
| SD-25 | Marshall A. Rauch · Ollie Harris · William K. Mauney Jr. (D) | 13.9 | |
| SD-26 | Lamar Gudger · I. C. Crawford (D) | 9.8 | |
| SD-27 | Cecil Hill · Joe H. Palmer (D) | 3.2 | Incumbent lost |
North Carolina State Senate
Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner