Democratic presidential vote share

47.6%

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

Governor

Josh Stein (D)

National Governors Association

Democratic vote share, U.S. Senate elections

47.3%

2022 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

U.S. House seats apportioned to North Carolina

2020 · U.S. Census Bureau

Total votes cast for president

5,699,141

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

Statehouse

Republican supermajority

Election Results

Recent presidential votes.

Democratic presidential vote share

47.6%

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

Republican presidential vote share

50.9%

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

2024 winner

Republican

2024 margin

+3.2 pts

2020 margin

+1.3 pts (R)

Democratic presidential vote share

1976–2024

47.6%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).

Republican presidential vote share

1976–2024

50.9%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).

Indicator	North Carolina	U.S.
2024 Republican margin (pts)	3.2	1.5

•North Carolina has voted Republican in every presidential election since 2012, but elected Democratic governors in 2016, 2020 and 2024.

Governors

State executive.

Governor

Josh Stein (D)

National Governors Association

In office since

2025

National Governors Association

Governors listed

1776–present · National Governors Association

Term limit

2 terms

Governors of North Carolina

Governor	Party	In office
Josh Stein	Democratic	2025–present
Pat McCrory	Republican	2013–2016
Bev Perdue	Democratic	2009–2013
Michael F. Easley	Democratic	2001–2009
James G Martin	Republican	1985–1993
James E. Holshouser	Republican	1973–1977
Robert Walter Scott	Democratic	1969–1973
Dan Killian Moore	Democratic	1965–1969
James Terry Sanford	Democratic	1961–1965
Luther Hartwell Hodges	Democratic	1954–1961
William Bradley Umstead	Democratic	1953–1954
William Kerr Scott	Democratic	1949–1953
Robert Gregg Cherry	Democratic	1945–1949
Joseph Melville Broughton	Democratic	1941–1945
Clyde Roark Hoey	Democratic	1937–1941
John Christopher Blucher Ehringhaus	Democratic	1933–1937
Oliver Max Gardner	Baptist	1929–1933
Angus Wilton Mclean	Democratic	1925–1929
Cameron A. Morrison	Democratic	1921–1925
Thomas Walter Bickett	Democratic	1917–1921
Locke Craig	Democratic	1913–1917
William Walton Kitchin	Democratic	1909–1913
Robert Broadnax Glenn	Democratic	1905–1909
Charles Brantley Aycock	Democratic	1901–1905
Daniel Lindsay Russell	Republican	1897–1901
Elias Carr	Democratic	1893–1897
Thomas Michael Holt	Democratic	1891–1893
Daniel Gould Fowle	Democratic	1889–1891
Alfred Moore Scales	Democratic	1885–1889
Thomas Jordan Jarvis	Democratic	1879–1885
Curtis Hooks Brogden	Republican	1874–1877
Tod Robinson Caldwell	Republican	1870–1874
Jonathan Worth	Democratic	1865–1868
Henry Toole Clark	Democratic	1861–1862
John Willis Ellis	Democratic	1859–1861
Thomas Bragg	Democratic	1855–1859
Warren Winslow	Democratic	1854–1855
David Settle Reid	Democratic	1851–1854
Charles Manly	Whig	1849–1850
William Alexander Graham	Whig	1845–1849
John Motley Morehead	Whig	1841–1845
Edward Bishop Dudley	Whig	1836–1841
Richard Dobbs Spaight Jr.	Democratic	1835–1836
David Lowry Swain	Whig	1832–1835
Montfort Stokes	Democratic	1830–1832
John Owen	Democratic	1828–1830
James Iredell	Democratic-Republican	1827–1828
Hutchins Gordon Burton	Federalist	1824–1827
Gabriel Holmes	Democratic-Republican	1821–1824
Jesse Franklin	Democratic-Republican	1820–1821
John Branch	Democratic-Republican	1817–1820
William Miller	Democratic-Republican	1814–1817
William Hawkins	Democratic-Republican	1811–1814
Benjamin Smith	Democratic-Republican	1810–1811
David Stone	Democratic-Republican	1808–1810
Nathaniel Alexander	Democratic-Republican	1805–1807
James Turner	Democratic-Republican	1802–1805
William Richardson Davie	Federalist	1798–1799
Samuel Ashe	Republican	1795–1798
Richard Dobbs Spaight Sr.	Anti-Federalist	1792–1795
Samuel Johnston	Federalist	1787–1789
Richard Caswell	Current Governor	1776–1780

Source: National Governors Association, current and former governors.

Indicator	North Carolina	U.S.
Years of Democratic control	24	0

Senators

U.S. Senate delegation.

Democratic vote share, U.S. Senate elections

47.3%

2022 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

Republican vote share, U.S. Senate elections

50.5%

2022 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

Senate seats

Composition

2 Republicans

Notable

No Democrat has won a Senate race here since 2008

Democratic vote share, U.S. Senate elections

1978–2022

47.3%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse). Regular-term races; special elections only when no regular race was held. Independents (e.g. caucusing with Democrats) are not counted as Democratic; years without a Democratic nominee are omitted.

Republican vote share, U.S. Senate elections

1978–2022

50.5%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).

Indicator	North Carolina	U.S.
U.S. Senate seats	2	100

Representatives

U.S. House delegation.

U.S. House seats apportioned to North Carolina

2020 · U.S. Census Bureau

House seats

Republicans

Democrats

U.S. House seats apportioned to North Carolina

1910–2020

14▲ 40%

U.S. Census Bureau, decennial apportionment counts.

Indicator	North Carolina	U.S.
U.S. House seats	14	435

Voting Trends

Turnout and participation.

Total votes cast for president

5,699,141

2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab

Total votes cast for president

1976–2024

5,699,141▲ 240%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).

Indicator	North Carolina	U.S.
Voter turnout (%)	74	64

Party Distribution

Partisan balance.

Statehouse

Republican supermajority

Urban core

Democratic

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