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2008 General Election Results, Durham, North Carolina

Durham County NC, November 4th 2008

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General election results

'Presidential' ballots cast in Durham 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 %
32	Durham	PROVISIONAL	931	208	10	5	1154	723	80.68	18.02
32	Durham	ELECTION DAY	22004	10722	300	172	33198	11282	66.28	32.3
32	Durham	EARLY	80521	21423	350	251	102545	59098	78.52	20.89
32	Durham	TOTAL	103456	32353	660	428	136897	71103	75.57	23.63

This table shows 'Presidential' election results for Durham 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 Durham County

Party	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
LIB	150	138	92	0.1	0.08
REP	27772	20280	73.02	14.81	15.56
UNA	40223	28973	72.03	21.16	22.53
DEM	110361	87550	79.33	63.93	61.82
Total	178506	136941	76.72	100	100

Gender of voter in Durham County

Gender	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
U	3069	2135	69.57	1.56	1.72
M	77227	57726	74.75	42.15	43.26
F	98210	77080	78.48	56.29	55.02
Total	178506	136941	76.72	100	100

Race of voter in Durham County

Race	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
	3	3	100	0	0
I	401	290	72.32	0.21	0.22
M	1611	1188	73.74	0.87	0.9
A	3274	2341	71.5	1.71	1.83
O	3569	2320	65	1.69	2
U	5846	4283	73.26	3.13	3.27
B	69916	55082	78.78	40.22	39.17
W	93886	71434	76.09	52.16	52.6
Total	178506	136941	76.72	100	100

Age of voter in Durham County

Age	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
Age < 18 Or	11	0	0	0	0.01
Age Over 66	21754	16982	78.06	12.4	12.19
Age 18 - 25	29137	21039	72.21	15.36	16.32
Age 26 - 40	58126	41626	71.61	30.4	32.56
Age 41 - 65	69478	57294	82.46	41.84	38.92
Total	178506	136941	76.72	100	100

Year of registration in Durham County

Year	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
2007	9889	7804	78.92	5.7	5.54
2005-2006	13371	9344	69.88	6.82	7.49
1991-1995	14512	11156	76.87	8.15	8.13
1996-2000	23133	16976	73.38	12.4	12.96
2000-2004	38400	24800	64.58	18.11	21.51
< 1990	38651	33230	85.97	24.27	21.65
2008	40550	33631	82.94	24.56	22.72
Total	178506	136941	76.72	100	100

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

Voted in Primary?	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
New Registrant	27971	23336	83.43	17.04	15.67
No	72420	38361	52.97	28.01	40.57
Yes	78115	75244	96.32	54.95	43.76
Total	178506	136941	76.72	100	100

Voting method used in Durham County

Method	Total voted	%
TRANSFER	48	0.04
CURBSIDE	409	0.3
PROV	1038	0.76
ABS-MAIL	5172	3.78
IN-PERSON	32773	23.93
ABS-1STOP	97501	71.2
Total	136941	100

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

Durham County web site(s)
Durham for Obama
Durham Democratic Party

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