1996Final results
1996 election for North Carolina Senate District 40
North Carolina State Senate · North Carolina
Leslie Winner (D) won with 64.5% of the vote, defeating E. Dunbar Jewell (R) by 28.9 points.
Leslie WinnerDemocrat · winner · incumbent
64.5%27,186
E. Dunbar JewellRepublican
35.5%14,983
42,169 votes
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET
The seat over time
D − R margin in this seat's races around 1996
Races before and after
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET