2010Flipped from DemocraticFinal results
2010 election for North Carolina Senate District 9
North Carolina State Senate · North Carolina
Thom Goolsby (R) won with 57.4% of the vote, defeating Jim Leutze (D) by 14.9 points, a seat Democrats won last time.
Thom GoolsbyRepublican · winner
57.4%36,701
Jim LeutzeDemocrat
42.6%27,189
63,890 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