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Unofficial results are in for the 2024 General Election.

In the Dare County Board of Commissioners contests, Republican Bob Woodard will retain his District 2 seat, bringing in 13,345 (55.07%) votes to Democrat Katie Morgan’s 10,887 (44.93%), while Republican Steve House will also retain his District 3 seat with 14,537 (60.88%) votes to Democrat Dennis Zaenger’s 9,341 (39.12%). District 4 will go to Republican Mary Ellon Ballance with 14,534 (60.81%) votes to Democrat Aida Havel’s 9,368 (39.19%). Republicans Carson Creef (16,312 votes) and Mike Burrus (16,441 votes), who ran unopposed in the General Election, will represent District 1 on the BOC.

For the Dare County Board of Education, the majority of the votes went to Republican David Twiddy with 14,747 (61.17%) to Democrat Melissa Zehner’s 9,363 (38.83%) for the at-large seat. For District 2, Republican Lisa Lloyd brought in 13,998 (58.95%) votes, followed by Democrat Hayley Carey with 9,751 (41.06%). For District 4, Republican Kenny Brite won with 14,109 (59.46%) votes to Democrat Heather Euler’s 9,619 (40.54%). Republican Justin Bateman (16,578 votes) ran unopposed for the District 1 spot.

There were 4,714 write-ins for Soil and Water Conservation supervisor.

In Dare County, 25,159 total ballots were cast out of 34,103 registered voters, or 73.77%.

In the race for Currituck County Board of Commissioners at-large went to Republican Paul O’Neal with 13,087 (75.88%) votes to Democrat Claywood Wilson Jr.’s 4,161 (24.12%). District 1’s Republican Tony Angell (14,313) and District 2’s Republican Selena Jarvis (14,338) ran unopposed, while District 4’s Republican Janet Williams Rose brought in 11,903 (78.5%) votes to 3,260 (21.5%) votes for write-ins.

Republican Natalie Roberts Twiddy (14,335) ran unopposed for Currituck County Register of Deeds.

Results in the Board of Education race for the Fruitville Township were Emily Crodick with 7,539 (55.18%) votes, followed by Kelly Williams Peters with 5,986 (43.81%) and write-ins with 137 (1%). For the Moyock Township, Sandi Ayres brought in the most votes is 6,966 (51.63%), followed by Dwan Gibbs Craft with 4,537 (33.63%), Zedric McKennon with 1,824 (13.52%) and write-ins with 164 (1.22%). Results for the at-large contest were Jason Banks with 8,768 (62.7%), Paul Beaumont with 5,058 (36.17%) and write-ins 158 (1.13%).

The referendum for the Currituck County local sales and use tax referendum saw 11,928 (70.23%) votes against at 5,055 (29.77%) votes for.

In Currituck County, 17,961 total ballots were cast out of 25,064 registered voters, or 71.66%.

The race for Hyde County Board of Commissioners Fairfield Township saw unaffiliated Jeffrey Berry bring in 1,217 votes (56.76%) to Democrat Thomas Whitaker’s 927 (43.24%). For the Ocracoke Township seat, unopposed Democrat Randal Mathews brought in 1,540 votes.

For the Hyde County Board of Education’s at-large seat, which was a “vote for 2” race, unaffiliated Edward Torres brought in 1,347 (57.64%) votes and Democrat Chanta Gibbs-Rickard brought in 990 (42.36%) votes.

Chad Spencer, who was unopposed for Hyde County Soil and Water Conservation District supervisor, brought in 1,866 votes. There were 27 (1.43%) votes for write-ins.

Engelhard Sanitary District Supervisors (vote for 2) saw 31 write-ins, while the Engelhard Sanitary District Supervisors (unexpired) (vote for 2) brought 99 (52.94%) votes for Michael Lee Gibbs, 86 (45.99%) votes for Drake Etheridge and 2 (1.07%) write-in votes. Ocracoke Sanitary District Supervisors (vote for 2) garnered 501 (55.92%) votes for Regina O’Leal Boor, 384 (42.86%) votes for Scott Bradley and 11 (1.23%) write-in votes. Swan Quarter Sanitary District Supervisors (vote for 2) brought 25 write-ins.

Votes for the Hyde County local sales and use tax referendum were 1,694 (76.17%) against and 530 (23.83%) for.

In Hyde County, 2,418 total ballots were cast out of 3,197 registered voters, or 75.63%.

In Tyrrell County’s contest for Board of Commissioners, top votes went to Republican Robert Thompson with 617 (35.96%), followed by Democrat Nathan “Tommy” Everett with 453 (26.4%), unaffiliated Darryl Liverman with 368 (21.45%) and Democrat Karen Rose Simmons with 278 (16.2%).

Democrat Gene Parisher Boger (1,313 votes) ran unopposed for Tyrrell Register of Deeds.

Wesley Hopkins, unopposed, brought in 1,380 votes for Tyrrell Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor. There were 25 write-ins.

Statewide, the presidential race saw Republican Donald Trump bring in the most votes from North Carolinians with 2,876,398 (50.96%), followed by Democrat Kamala Harris with 2,684,465 (47.56%), the Green Party’s Jill Stein with 24,279 (.43%), Libertarian Chase Oliver with 21,776 (.39%), miscellaneous write-ins with 19,268 (.34%), Justice for All’s Cornel West with 11,864 (.21%), the Constitution Party’s Randall Terry with 6,782 (.12%) and Nicky Haley (write-in) with 6.

For the U.S. House of Representatives District 1 contest, Democrat Don Davis brought in 184,993 (49.46%) votes, followed by Republican Laurie Buckhout with 179,167 (47.9%) votes and Libertarian Tom Bailey with 9,851 (2.63%) votes.

For the U.S. House of Representatives District 3 contest, Republican Greg Murphy garnered 245,964 (77.50%) votes to Libertarian Gheorghe Cormos’s 71,394 (22.5%).

In the race for governor, Democrat Josh Sten pulled in the most votes with 3,036,723 (54.82%), followed by Republican Mark Robinson with 2,225,602 (40.18%), Libertarian Mike Ross with 174,342 (3.15%), the Constitution Party’s Vinny Smith with 54,045 (.98%) and the Green Party’s Wayne Turner with 48,663 (.88%).

Filling out the Council of State, lieutenant governor was won by Democrat Rachel Hunt over Republican Hal Weatherman, Libertarian Shannon Bray and the Constitution Party’s Wayne Jones; attorney general was won by Democrat Jeff Jackson over Republican Dan Bishop; auditor was won by Republican Dave Boliek over Democrat Jessica Homes and Libertarian Bob Drach; agriculture commissioner went to Republican Steve Troxler over Democrat Sarah Taber and Libertarian Sean Haugh; insurance commissioner was won by Republican Mike Causey over Democrat Natasha Marcus; Republican Luke Farley won labor commissioner over Democrat Braxton Winston II; secretary of state was won by Democrat Elaine Marshall over Republican Chad Brown; Democrat Maurice “Mo” Green won superintendent of public instruction over Republican Michele Morrow; and treasurer was won by Republican Brad Briner over Democrat Wesley Harris.

North Carolina State Senate District 1 was won by Republican Bobby Hanig with 62,483 (57.27%) votes to Democrat Susan Harman-Scott’s 46,624 (42.73%) votes. Top votes for District 2 went to Republican Norman Sanderson (62,669, 56.07%), followed by Democrat Tare Davis (46,715, 41.8%) and Libertarian Maria Cormos (2,379, 2.13%).

North Carolina House of Representatives District 1 was won by Republican Edward Goodwin with 31,789 (65.09%) votes to Democrat Susan Sawin’s 17,048 (34.91%) votes. Top votes for District 79 went to Republican Keith Kidwell (31,961, 63.31%), followed by Democrat Mary Beedle (18,521, 36.69%).

In the statewide referendum for citizens-only voting, 4,147,539 (77.59%) voted for and 1,197,778 (22.41%) voted against.

More information on election results is available at er.ncsbe.gov.

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