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2008 General Election Results, Burke, North Carolina

Burke County NC, November 4th 2008

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General election results

'Presidential' ballots cast in Burke County in the 2008 NC General Election.

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Rows are color coded, red for McCain/Palin, blue for Obama/Biden.
County and method are colored by the county winner, the counts by who won the row.
Margin is expressed in favor of Obama/Biden. Negative numbers are losses for that row.

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County ID	County Name	Method	Obama/ Biden	McCain/ Palin	Barr/ Root	Write- in	Total	Margin	Obama %	McCain %
12	Burke	PROVISIONAL	107	173	1	0	281	-66	38.08	61.57
12	Burke	ELECTION DAY	4428	8299	117	71	12915	-3871	34.29	64.26
12	Burke	EARLY	10366	13630	156	95	24247	-3264	42.75	56.21
12	Burke	TOTAL	14901	22102	274	166	37443	-7201	39.8	59.03

This table shows 'Presidential' election results for Burke County in the 2008 General Election in North Carolina.

The counts are from the official results declared by the NC State Board of Elections.

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Voter performance

The following tables show the registered voter demographics and measures. We do not know how individual voters voted, but we do know who voted and several basic measures of them.

Registered party in Burke County

Party	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
LIB	40	31	77.5	0.08	0.07
UNA	12384	7749	62.57	20.25	22.92
REP	19385	14299	73.76	37.36	35.87
DEM	22230	16194	72.85	42.31	41.14
Total	54039	38273	70.82	100	100

Gender of voter in Burke County

Gender	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
U	211	150	71.09	0.39	0.39
M	25022	17479	69.85	45.67	46.3
F	28806	20644	71.67	53.94	53.31
Total	54039	38273	70.82	100	100

Race of voter in Burke County

Race	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
I	58	41	70.69	0.11	0.11
M	68	53	77.94	0.14	0.13
	117	97	82.91	0.25	0.22
U	137	99	72.26	0.26	0.25
A	470	176	37.45	0.46	0.87
O	561	230	41	0.6	1.04
B	3298	2576	78.11	6.73	6.1
W	49330	35001	70.95	91.45	91.29
Total	54039	38273	70.82	100	100

Age of voter in Burke County

Age	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
Age < 18 Or	1	0	0	0	0
Age 18 - 25	5708	2963	51.91	7.74	10.56
Age Over 66	10860	8160	75.14	21.32	20.1
Age 26 - 40	12418	7837	63.11	20.48	22.98
Age 41 - 65	25052	19313	77.09	50.46	46.36
Total	54039	38273	70.82	100	100

Year of registration in Burke County

Year	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
2007	2631	1503	57.13	3.93	4.87
2005-2006	4035	2122	52.59	5.54	7.47
2008	4830	3623	75.01	9.47	8.94
1991-1995	6517	4597	70.54	12.01	12.06
2000-2004	8136	4725	58.08	12.35	15.06
1996-2000	8701	5530	63.56	14.45	16.1
< 1990	19189	16173	84.28	42.26	35.51
Total	54039	38273	70.82	100	100

Voter performance for people that voted in the Primary and those that registered to vote since the primary in Burke County

Voted in Primary?	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
New Registrant	3252	2561	78.75	6.69	6.02
Yes	17080	16352	95.74	42.72	31.61
No	33707	19360	57.44	50.58	62.38
Total	54039	38273	70.82	100	100

Voting method used in Burke County

Method	Total voted	%
CURBSIDE	96	0.25
TRANSFER	128	0.33
PROV	271	0.71
ABS-MAIL	1775	4.64
IN-PERSON	12724	33.25
ABS-1STOP	23279	60.82
Total	38273	100

NOTES: The above counts are derived from the State Board of Elections voter registration and voter history data bases.

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