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Pitt voting boosts Democrats, mirrors statewide results
General election races in Pitt County on Tuesday mirrored statewide results with Democrats winning most of the county’s votes.
Among the top tier of federal and state races, incumbent U.S. Rep. Walter Jones was the only Republican returned to office by Pitt County voters.
Locally, Democrat Ephraigm Smith defeated Republican incumbent Tom Coulson for the Pitt County Board of Commissioners’ District B seat.
The voting followed regional and statewide trends, where returns garnered Democratic victories for Beverly Perdue for governor, Kay Hagan for U.S. Senate and Don Davis for state Senate. President-elect Barack Obama also holds a lead in North Carolina but the race remains too close for state election officials to call.
Pitt election officials will spent the next week preparing for the final voter canvass on Nov. 14, said Dave Davis, county elections director. From that, staff will collect demographic data on Tuesday’s vote.
A preliminary look at the numbers shows 74,130 Pitt County residents voted. Out of those ballots, 49,486 were cast during the three-week One-Stop, Early Voting period and 2,335 were absentee mail-in votes, according to the state Board of Elections’ data on Pitt County’s presidential vote. About 22,000 people voted on Tuesday.
The numbers constituted a record-breaking turnout for the county, besting chart-topping numbers from the 2004 general election. Then, 55,070 or 58.80 percent of the 93,656 registered voters cast ballots.
Here is a breakdown of Pitt County’s unofficial elections results:
U.S. President
Obama/Biden (Dem): 39,763
McCain/Palin (Rep): 33,429
other votes: 443
U.S. Senate
Kay Hagan (Dem): 40,562
Elizabeth Dole (Rep): 30,891
Christopher Cole (Lib):1,527
WRITE-IN: 25
Governor
Beverly Perdue (Dem): 43,308
Pat McCrory (Rep): 28,173
Michael C. Munger (Lib): 1,486
1st Congressional District
G.K. Butterfield (Dem): 17,825
Dean Stephens (Rep): 6,574
3rd Congressional District
Craig Weber: 18,487
Walter Jones: 29,081
State Senate District 5
Don Davis (Dem): 18,543
Louis M. Pate Jr. (Rep) 18,211
State House District 9
Marian McLawhorn (Dem): 24,632
Ginny Cooper: (Rep): 14,887
County Commissioner District B
Ephraigm Smith (Dem): 12,027
Tom Coulson (Rep): 11,712
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By Republican
November 5, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this
I am a republican, and I am glad we kicked that carpetbagger dole out of NC
By Republican
November 5, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this
I am a republican, and I am glad we kicked that carpetbagger dole out of NC