2010Flipped from DemocraticFinal resultsIncumbent defeated
2010 election for North Carolina Senate District 11
North Carolina State Senate · North Carolina
Buck Newton (R) won with 52.9% of the vote, defeating A. B. Swindell (D) by 5.8 points, a seat Democrats won last time.
Buck NewtonRepublican · winner
52.9%30,266
A. B. SwindellDemocrat · incumbent
47.1%26,970
57,236 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 2010
Races before and after
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET