NC Election Update

By Wendy Kelley

The entire NC General Assembly, one US Senate and 14 US Congress seats were on the ballot tonight in NC. The Council of State (including the governor) is not on the ballot again until 2024.

Congressman Ted Budd (R) beat Cheri Beasely (D) for the US Senate seat vacated by retiring Senator Richard Burr (R).

The NC Congressional delegation is now evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans. We anticipate these districts to be redrawn in advance of the 2024 elections as the current maps were decided by the NC courts.

The NC House partisan divide is now 71 R and 49 D and the NC Senate is now 30 R and 20 D. The NC Senate gained a Republican supermajority, but the House was unable to do the same. Therefore, Governor Cooper’s veto remains relevant.

The NC Supreme Court had two seats on the ballot held by Justice Robin Hudson who retired this year, and Justice Sam Ervin, IV who was seeking reelection. Court of Appeals Judge Richard Deitz (R) beat Court of Appeals Judge Lucy Inman (D). Justice Ervin lost his reelection bid to Trey Allen (R), changing the partisan split to 5-2 from 4-3.

US CONGRESS

NC gained a new congressional seat this election. The partisan split is now 7 Democrats and 7 Republicans. District 13 was the only toss up race and was won by Democrat Wiley Nickel.

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