Jim O’Neill was reelected as the North Carolina 31st prosecutorial district attorney, serving Forsyth County. O’Neill has been the Forsyth D.A. since 2009, and he faced his stiffest competition in an election,
The Republican incumbent defeated Democrat Denise S. Hartsfield, a former judge in the 21st judicial. O’Neill received 67,096 votes to Hartsfield’s 63,776 at the time the race was called. He won the vote by a margin of 51.3% to 48.7%.