2008 general · November 4, 2008

2008 North Carolina election results

Every race on North Carolina's ballot in the 2008 general election: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

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Races186
Changed party7
Unopposed38%71 races
Incumbents defeated2

President

D 1

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
North CarolinaBarack H. Obama (D)0.3

U.S. Senate

D 1 · 1 changed party

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
North CarolinaKay R. Hagan (D)8.5Flipped

Governors

D 1

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
North CarolinaBev Perdue (D)3.5

U.S. House

D 8 · R 5 · 1 changed party

North Carolina State Senate

D 30 · R 20 · 1 changed party

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1Marc Basnight (D)Unopposed
SD-2Jean R. Preston (R)23.2
SD-3Clark Jenkins (D)Unopposed
SD-4Edward Jones (D)Unopposed
SD-5Don Davis (D)5.8
SD-6Harry Brown (R)Unopposed
SD-7Doug Berger (D)25.4
SD-8R. C. Soles Jr. (D)2.9
SD-9Julia Boseman (D)3.3
SD-10Charles W. Albertson (D)Unopposed
SD-11A. B. Swindell (D)Unopposed
SD-12David Rouzer (R)3.9
SD-13David F. Weinstein (D)Unopposed
SD-14Vernon Malone (D)38.9
SD-15Neal Hunt (R)9.9
SD-16Josh Stein (D)21.6
SD-17Richard Stevens (R)62.4
SD-18Bob Atwater (D)38.0
SD-19Anthony E. Rand (D)Unopposed
SD-20Floyd B. McKissick Jr. (D)51.0
SD-21Larry Shaw (D)Unopposed
SD-22Harris Blake (R)20.5
SD-23Ellie Kinnaird (D)41.8
SD-24Tony Foriest (D)5.0
SD-25William R. Purcell (D)21.7
SD-26Phil Berger (R)Unopposed
SD-27Donald R. Vaughan (D)37.5
SD-28Katie G. Dorsett (D)Unopposed
SD-29Jerry W. Tillman (R)36.3
SD-30Don W. East (R)Unopposed
SD-31Peter Samuel Brunstetter (R)Unopposed
SD-32Linda Garrou (D)Unopposed
SD-33Stan Bingham (R)Unopposed
SD-34Andrew C. Brock (R)22.3
SD-35W. Edward Goodall Jr. (R)Unopposed
SD-36Fletcher L. Hartsell Jr. (R)13.6
SD-37Daniel G. Clodfelter (D)39.5
SD-38Charlie Dannelly (D)49.5
SD-39Robert Rucho (R)Unopposed
SD-40Malcolm Graham (D)33.9
SD-41James Forrester (R)Unopposed
SD-42Austin M. Allran (R)Unopposed
SD-43David W. Hoyle (D)2.9
SD-44Jim Jacumin (R)19.0
SD-45Steve Goss (D)7.8
SD-46Debbie A. Clary (R)1.0Flipped
SD-47Joe Sam Queen (D)7.2
SD-48Tom Apodaca (R)Unopposed
SD-49Martin L. Nesbitt (D)31.3
SD-50John J. Snow Jr. (D)14.9

North Carolina House of Representatives

D 68 · R 52 · 4 changed party

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Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Algara, Carlos; Amlani, Sharif (Harvard Dataverse); Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner; MIT Election Data and Science Lab