Live North Carolina 2024 election results

Voters in North Carolina head to the polls on Election Day to cast their ballots in a critical state that is hosting the presidential election and is also home to the country's most important gubernatorial race.

The winner of the presidential contest receives the state's 16 electoral votes. The elections end at 7:30 p.m. local time.

State significance

North Carolina has supported the Democratic presidential candidate only once since 1980 (in 2008 with 14,000 votes for former President Barack Obama), but is still a top target for the party and a top swing state.

Former President Donald Trump polled by less than 1.5 points in 2020, and Democrats insist that the growing population in the “Research Triangle,” anchored by Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, will help increase their share of the vote state to increase.

However, Republicans were able to keep their margins large enough in the state's vast rural areas to offset the Democrats' advantage in North Carolina's more urban areas.

North Carolina is also home to the most competitive gubernatorial race in the country this year, pitting Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein against the Republican candidate, Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson.

Stein held a consistent lead in the campaign while Robinson was criticized by Democrats for controversial statements about Jews, LGBTQ+ people and more, culminating in a bombshell CNN report that Robinson had used disturbing and inflammatory language in the comments section of a pornographic website years, among other things by describing himself as a “black Nazi”.

Counties are colored red or blue when the percentage of expected votes reaches a set threshold. This threshold varies by state and is based on past voting reporting patterns and expectations about how voting will occur this year.