1998 general · November 3, 1998
1998 North Carolina House of Representatives election results, district by district
Every North Carolina House of Representatives district in the 1998 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.
Seats after the election
Democrats controlled the chamber · 120 seats
After the electionD 66 · R 54
Races98
Changed party7
Unopposed42%41 races
Incumbents defeated6
Every district
D 66 · R 54
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| HD-1 | W. C. Owens Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-2 | Zeno L. Edwards Jr. (D) | 0.3 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| HD-3 | Scott Thomas (D) | 8.6 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| HD-4 | Jean R. Preston · Ronald Lynwood Smith (REP) | 6.1 | |
| HD-5 | Howard J. Hunter Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-6 | Richard Eugene Rogers (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-7 | Thomas C. Hardaway (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-8 | Edith D. Warren (D) | 43.2 | |
| HD-9 | Marian N. McLawhorn (D) | 2.9 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| HD-10 | Russell E. Tucker (D) | 13.8 | Flipped |
| HD-11 | Phil Baddour Jr. (D) | 18.4 | |
| HD-12 | Nurham Warwick (D) | 7.2 | |
| HD-13 | Danny McComas (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-14 | E. David Redwine · Dewey L. Hill (D) | 6.5 | |
| HD-15 | J. Sam Ellis (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-16 | Douglas Y. Yongue (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-17 | Mary E. McAllister · Ted Kinney (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-18 | John W. Hurley · Amelia A. H. Morris (DEM) | 7.6 | |
| HD-19 | Donald Spencer Davis · Leslie Cox (REP) | 0.6 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-20 | Billy J. Creech (R) | 33.8 | |
| HD-21 | Dan Blue (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-22 | James W. Crawford Jr. · Gordon P. Allen (D) | 14.6 | |
| HD-23 | Paul Luebke · George W. Miller Jr. · Hm Michaux Jr. (D) | 24.0 | |
| HD-24 | Joe Hackney · Verla C. Insko (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-25 | Nelson Cole · W. B. Teague Jr. · Cary D. Allred (DEM) | 1.7 | |
| HD-26 | Alma Adams (D) | 48.6 | |
| HD-27 | Stephen Wood (R) | 77.9 | |
| HD-28 | Flossie Boydmcintyre (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-29 | Joanne W. Bowie (R) | 77.8 | |
| HD-30 | Arlie F. Culp (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-31 | Richard T. Morgan (R) | 12.1 | |
| HD-32 | Wayne Goodwin (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-33 | Pryor Gibson (D) | 22.8 | |
| HD-34 | O. Max Melton (D) | 3.3 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| HD-35 | Charlotte A. Gardner (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-36 | J. B. Black (D) | 27.6 | |
| HD-37 | Paul McCrary (D) | 29.2 | |
| HD-38 | Harold J. Brubaker (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-39 | Lyons Gray (R) | 35.8 | |
| HD-40 | William Hiatt · William E. Wilson · Rex L. Baker (R) | 5.3 | |
| HD-41 | George M. Holmes · John W. Brown (R) | 12.1 | |
| HD-42 | Frank Mitchell (R) | 22.3 | |
| HD-43 | Mitchell Setzer (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-44 | Daniel W. Barefoot (D) | 15.9 | |
| HD-45 | Joe L. Kiser · Cherie Killian Berry (R) | 16.5 | |
| HD-46 | Gregg Thompson · Charles F. Buchanan (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-47 | Walter Church Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-48 | Andrew Thomas Dedmon · Debbie A. Clary · Jim Horn (DEM) | 0.7 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-49 | Mitch Gillespie (R) | 8.4 | Flipped |
| HD-50 | Larry T. Justus (R) | 45.9 | |
| HD-51 | Wilma Sherrill · Lanier M. Cansler · Martin L. Nesbitt (REP) | 2.5 | |
| HD-52 | Liston B. Ramsey · R. Phillip Haire (D) | 2.5 | |
| HD-53 | James C. Carpenter (R) | 14.6 | |
| HD-54 | Drew Saunders (D) | 13.3 | |
| HD-55 | W. Edwin McMahan (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-56 | Martha Alexander (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-57 | Connie Wilson (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-58 | Ruth M. Easterling (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-59 | W. Pete Cunningham (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-60 | Beverly Miller Earle (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-61 | Charles B. Neely Jr. (R) | 78.4 | |
| HD-62 | David Miner (R) | 10.1 | |
| HD-63 | Jane H. Mosley (D) | 6.6 | |
| HD-64 | Robert J. Hensley Jr. (D) | 23.9 | |
| HD-65 | Rick Eddins (R) | 12.5 | |
| HD-66 | Larry Womble (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-67 | Warren Oldham (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-68 | Trudi Walend (R) | 11.7 | |
| HD-69 | Jim Gulley (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-70 | Milton F. Fitch Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-71 | Joe Pat Tolson (D) | 33.0 | |
| HD-72 | Gene Arnold (R) | 17.6 | |
| HD-73 | Wayne Sexton (R) | 20.7 | |
| HD-74 | Julia Howard (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-75 | Alex Warner (D) | 9.4 | |
| HD-76 | John D. Bridgeman (D) | 5.3 | Flipped |
| HD-77 | Carolyn B. Russell (R) | 22.0 | |
| HD-78 | Stan Fox (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-79 | William L. Wainwright (D) | 71.7 | |
| HD-80 | Robert Grady (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-81 | Timothy N. Tallent (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-82 | Bobby H. Barbee Sr. (R) | 26.9 | |
| HD-83 | Eugene McCombs (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-84 | Michael Decker (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-85 | Ronnie Sutton (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-86 | Bill Culpepper (D) | 31.5 | |
| HD-87 | Donald A. Bonner (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-88 | Theresa Esposito (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-89 | Mary Jarrell · Maggie Jeffus (D) | 6.0 | |
| HD-90 | Richard L. Moore (D) | 10.5 | |
| HD-91 | Edgar V. Starnes (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-92 | J. Russell Capps (R) | 23.5 | |
| HD-93 | John Melvin Rayfield (R) | 19.8 | |
| HD-94 | Jerry C. Dockham (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-95 | N. Leo Daughtry (R) | 37.4 | |
| HD-96 | Edd Nye (D) | 2.3 | |
| HD-97 | Jerry Braswell (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-98 | Thomas E. Wright (D) | Unopposed |
North Carolina House of Representatives
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