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2008 General Election Results, Halifax, North Carolina

Halifax County NC, November 4th 2008

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General election results

'Presidential' ballots cast in Halifax 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 %
42	Halifax	PROVISIONAL	0	0	0	0	0	0	55.64	43.84
42	Halifax	ELECTION DAY	5834	4597	29	25	10485	1237	55.64	43.84
42	Halifax	EARLY	10213	4364	18	11	14606	5849	69.92	29.88
42	Halifax	TOTAL	16047	8961	47	36	25091	7086	63.96	35.71

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

Party	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
LIB	15	13	86.67	0.05	0.04
UNA	4418	2705	61.23	10.72	12.81
REP	4437	3051	68.76	12.09	12.86
DEM	25623	19459	75.94	77.13	74.28
Total	34493	25228	73.14	100	100

Gender of voter in Halifax County

Gender	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
U	217	183	84.33	0.73	0.63
M	14796	10551	71.31	41.82	42.9
F	19480	14494	74.4	57.45	56.48
Total	34493	25228	73.14	100	100

Race of voter in Halifax County

Race	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
M	108	80	74.07	0.32	0.31
	172	134	77.91	0.53	0.5
A	177	123	69.49	0.49	0.51
U	194	150	77.32	0.59	0.56
O	213	131	61.5	0.52	0.62
I	976	694	71.11	2.75	2.83
W	14659	10674	72.82	42.31	42.5
B	17994	13242	73.59	52.49	52.17
Total	34493	25228	73.14	100	100

Age of voter in Halifax County

Age	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
Age < 18 Or	4	0	0	0	0.01
Age 18 - 25	4188	2499	59.67	9.91	12.14
Age Over 66	7070	5322	75.28	21.1	20.5
Age 26 - 40	7737	5099	65.9	20.21	22.43
Age 41 - 65	15494	12308	79.44	48.79	44.92
Total	34493	25228	73.14	100	100

Year of registration in Halifax County

Year	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
2007	1267	788	62.19	3.12	3.67
2005-2006	2209	1295	58.62	5.13	6.4
1991-1995	3062	2200	71.85	8.72	8.88
2008	5620	4475	79.63	17.74	16.29
2000-2004	5721	3523	61.58	13.96	16.59
1996-2000	5862	3908	66.67	15.49	16.99
< 1990	10752	9039	84.07	35.83	31.17
Total	34493	25228	73.14	100	100

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

Voted in Primary?	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
New Registrant	3840	3167	82.47	12.55	11.13
Yes	14352	13727	95.65	54.41	41.61
No	16301	8334	51.13	33.03	47.26
Total	34493	25228	73.14	100	100

Voting method used in Halifax County

Method	Total voted	%
CURBSIDE	180	0.71
PROV	366	1.45
ABS-MAIL	741	2.94
IN-PERSON	9764	38.7
ABS-1STOP	14177	56.2
Total	25228	100

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

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