Turning NC Blue 2008 General Election Results, Avery, North Carolina

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2008 General Election Results, Avery, North Carolina

Avery County NC, November 4th 2008

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General election results

'Presidential' ballots cast in Avery 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 %
6	Avery	PROVISIONAL	15	61	0	0	76	-46	19.74	80.26
6	Avery	EARLY	824	1549	13	12	2398	-725	34.36	64.6
6	Avery	ELECTION DAY	1339	4071	27	32	5469	-2732	24.48	74.44
6	Avery	TOTAL	2178	5681	40	44	7943	-3503	27.42	71.52

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

Party	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
LIB	6	2	33.33	0.03	0.05
DEM	1614	1072	66.42	13.43	14.09
UNA	2551	1622	63.58	20.32	22.27
REP	7283	5285	72.57	66.22	63.58
Total	11454	7981	69.68	100	100

Gender of voter in Avery County

Gender	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
U	51	37	72.55	0.46	0.45
M	5399	3757	69.59	47.07	47.14
F	6004	4187	69.74	52.46	52.42
Total	11454	7981	69.68	100	100

Race of voter in Avery County

Race	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
A	5	3	60	0.04	0.04
M	17	9	52.94	0.11	0.15
I	18	6	33.33	0.08	0.16
	21	14	66.67	0.18	0.18
O	53	28	52.83	0.35	0.46
B	60	31	51.67	0.39	0.52
U	74	49	66.22	0.61	0.65
W	11206	7841	69.97	98.25	97.83
Total	11454	7981	69.68	100	100

Age of voter in Avery County

Age	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
Age 18 - 25	1153	650	56.37	8.14	10.07
Age Over 66	2640	1886	71.44	23.63	23.05
Age 26 - 40	2668	1642	61.54	20.57	23.29
Age 41 - 65	4993	3803	76.17	47.65	43.59
Total	11454	7981	69.68	100	100

Year of registration in Avery County

Year	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
2007	334	223	66.77	2.79	2.92
2005-2006	792	438	55.3	5.49	6.91
1991-1995	1135	800	70.48	10.02	9.91
2008	1188	927	78.03	11.62	10.37
1996-2000	1871	1167	62.37	14.62	16.33
2000-2004	1902	1123	59.04	14.07	16.61
< 1990	4232	3303	78.05	41.39	36.95
Total	11454	7981	69.68	100	100

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

Voted in Primary?	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
New Registrant	759	605	79.71	7.58	6.63
Yes	4781	4504	94.21	56.43	41.74
No	5914	2872	48.56	35.99	51.63
Total	11454	7981	69.68	100	100

Voting method used in Avery County

Method	Total voted	%
PROV	74	0.93
ABS-MAIL	410	5.14
ABS-1STOP	2014	25.23
IN-PERSON	5483	68.7
Total	7981	100

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

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