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2008 General Election Results, North Carolina

North Carolina state, November 4th 2008

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General election results

'Presidential' ballots cast 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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Method	Obama/ Biden	McCain/ Palin	Barr/ Root	Write- in	Total	Margin	Obama %	McCain %
PROVISIONAL	12815	12097	198	102	25212	718	50.83	47.98
ELECTION DAY	747637	1039232	14587	7710	1809166	-291595	41.33	57.44
EARLY	1382199	1077145	10937	6130	2476411	305054	55.81	43.5
TOTAL	2142651	2128474	25722	13942	4310789	14177	49.7	49.38

This table shows 'Presidential' election results 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 affiliation

Party	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
LIB	3802	3158	83.06	0.07	0.06
UNA	1285378	854646	66.49	19.78	21.91
REP	1874224	1422487	75.9	32.92	31.95
DEM	2702111	2040561	75.52	47.23	46.07
Total	5865515	4320852	73.67	100	100

Gender of voter

Gender	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
U	49768	37228	74.8	0.86	0.85
M	2642958	1908937	72.23	44.18	45.06
F	3172789	2374687	74.85	54.96	54.09
Total	5865515	4320852	73.67	100	100

Race of voter

Race	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
	17496	14025	80.16	0.32	0.3
M	24222	17181	70.93	0.4	0.41
A	39143	26535	67.79	0.61	0.67
I	45498	24460	53.76	0.57	0.78
U	78897	57981	73.49	1.34	1.35
O	90083	54424	60.42	1.26	1.54
B	1273073	957991	75.25	22.17	21.7
W	4297103	3168255	73.73	73.32	73.26
Total	5865515	4320852	73.67	100	100

Age of voter

Age	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
Age < 18 Or	53	6	11.32	0	0
Age 18 - 25	744106	460457	61.88	10.66	12.69
Age Over 66	979544	743362	75.89	17.2	16.7
Age 26 - 40	1545755	1051424	68.02	24.33	26.35
Age 41 - 65	2596057	2065603	79.57	47.81	44.26
Total	5865515	4320852	73.67	100	100

Year of registration

Year	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
2007	304949	205784	67.48	4.76	5.2
2005-2006	480630	303506	63.15	7.02	8.19
1991-1995	577815	428324	74.13	9.91	9.85
2008	923987	738175	79.89	17.08	15.75
1996-2000	962808	669120	69.5	15.49	16.41
2000-2004	1087204	698969	64.29	16.18	18.54
< 1990	1528122	1276974	83.56	29.55	26.05
Total	5865515	4320852	73.67	100	100

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

Voted in Primary?	Total registered	Total voted	Row %	% of total voted	% of total registered %
New Registrant	631679	518273	82.05	11.99	10.77
Yes	2093378	2004622	95.76	46.39	35.69
No	3140458	1797957	57.25	41.61	53.54
Total	5865515	4320852	73.67	100	100

Voting method used

Method	Total voted	%
ABSENTEE	14	0
SPECPROV	17	0
TRANSFER	5902	0.14
CURBSIDE	6980	0.16
PROV	21630	0.5
ABS-MAIL	227540	5.27
IN-PERSON	1650495	38.2
ABS-1STOP	2408274	55.74
Total	4320852	100

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

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