North Carolina 2024 Election Results

North Carolina held its general election on November 5, 2024, deciding 170 legislative seats and 10 statewide offices led by the governorship. No chamber changed party control.

Highlights

• North Carolina voters split their tickets at the very top: the same electorate that backed Trump for president elected Josh Stein (D) governor by nearly fifteen points, the state's biggest gubernatorial landslide since 1980. His Republican opponent, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, ran 18 points behind Trump after a September report on his posts on a pornography forum flatlined his fundraising and drove out most of his campaign staff.
• The legislative headline was a single seat: House Republicans, led from January by Speaker Destin Hall after Tim Moore's departure for Congress, came out of the night with 71 of the chamber's 120 members, one short of the three-fifths supermajority that had let them override vetoes at will, while Senate Republicans held their 30 seats, exactly the number needed to override a veto there and no more, because Democrats held Senate District 18 (Terence Everitt (D)) and Senate District 42 (Woodson Bradley (D)) by 128 and 209 votes respectively. Four Democratic pickups outweighed three Republican gains:
  • Dante Pittman (D) in House District 24 and Bryan Cohn (D) in House District 32 unseated Republican incumbents.
  • Beth Gardner Helfrich (D) took House District 98 and Jordan Lopez (D) took House District 112, the seat Rep. Tricia Cotham (R) left to run in District 105.
  • Republicans picked up House District 35 and House District 73. Cotham, whose 2023 party switch had created the supermajority, took the previously Democratic-held House District 105 by 213 votes over Nicole Sidman (D).
• Down the rest of the statewide ballot, the ten Council of State offices split 5-5 between the parties, and three changed hands. Democrats flipped two: Rachel Hunt (D) won the lieutenant governorship Robinson vacated, and Mo Green (D) beat Michele Morrow (R) for schools superintendent. Republicans flipped one: Dave Boliek (R) unseated appointed Auditor Jessica Holmes (D). The remaining offices held their party lines, including Attorney General, kept for Democrats by Jeff Jackson (D).
• Across the 170 legislative races, 4 incumbents lost. Beyond the flips, 4 more races finished inside two points, and 29 seats drew a single candidate.
• The lone statewide measure, a constitutional amendment restating that only citizens may vote, passed with 78 percent.

Legislature

• House (120 seats): 48 D, 72 R before the election, 49 D, 71 R after; control stayed with Republicans.
• Senate (50 seats): 20 D, 30 R before the election, 20 D, 30 R after; control stayed with Republicans.

Statewide races

Legislative races

Ballot measures