The following are the North Carolina March 3 primary results for the state’s U.S. Senate seat, as well as statewide primaries for the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
This article will be updated as results are released by the N.C. State Board of Elections as they appear on the election results dashboard. All results are still unofficial. Provisional ballots have not been entered yet and the State Board of Elections says that will happen starting Mar. 6.
U.S. Senate
Democratic candidates: Robert Colon, Roy Cooper, Justin E. Dues, Daryl Farrow, Marcus W. Williams, Amos Quick
WINNER: The Associated Press called the race for Cooper. On election night Cooper had 92% of the vote.
Republican candidates: Don Brown, Richard Dansie, Margot Dupre*, Thomas Johnson, Michele Morrow, Elizabeth Temple, Michael Whatley.
WINNER: The Associated Press called the race for Michael Whatley, who had 64.60% of the vote on election night.
*The N.C State Board of Elections disqualified Dupre for the primary race during a meeting held in February. Her name still appeared on the ballot but the votes for her were not counted.
Court of Appeals
Court of Appeals Seat 1: Seat held by Democrat Judge John Arrowood
Republican candidates: Michael C. Byrne, Matt Smith
WINNER: Bryne won the race with a more than 3% margin over Smith with all precincts reporting. Bryne was up by 18,030 votes on election night.
Court of Appeals Seat 3: Seat held by Republican Judge Craig Collins
Democratic candidates: James Weldon Whalen, Christine Marie Walczyk
WINNER: Walczyk won the race with more than 63% of the vote with all precincts reporting and she was up over Whalen by 194,598 votes on election night.
If no candidate receives more than 30% of the vote in their contest, a runoff can be requested with the top two vote earning candidates competing in an election to be held on May 12.
Mandatory recounts may occur for statewide races if the margin between the top two candidates in a race is 0.5% of the votes cast (or less), or 10,000 votes, whichever is smaller. For local and municipal races, the recount threshold is 1%.
