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North Carolina

15 electoral votes

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Trump (R) has won. We estimate around all votes cast have been counted.

Illustration of Joe Biden
Biden
48.6%
2,684,306
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Trump
49.9%
2,758,779
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U.S. Senate

Sen. Thom Tillis (R) is projected to defeat Cal Cunningham (D) and leads by 95,631 votes.

VotesPct.
TillisGOP
Check
2,665,606
48.7%
CunninghamDEM2,569,975
46.9

Governor

Roy Cooper (D) is projected to defeat Dan Forest (R) and leads by 248,195 votes.

VotesPct.
CooperDEM
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2,834,804
51.5%
ForestGOP2,586,609
47.0

North Carolina has 13 U.S. House races. Jump to results

How much of the vote has been counted?

The Post estimates around all votes were counted here within 3 months.

100%

Polls closed

Final results

Note: Maps on this page won’t indicate a leading candidate in each county until an estimated 35 percent of the vote has been reported there.

Updated Nov 29, 2020 at 9:47 a.m. ET

Presidential results

In 2016, Donald Trump (R) won North Carolina by a margin of 3.7 points, adding 15 electoral college votes to his total. See early exit poll results from North Carolina.

Raleigh

Charlotte

Greensboro

Fayetteville

Wilmington

LEAD/WON

Trump

Biden

CandidateVotes Pct.
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Donald Trump *Trump *GOP
2,758,77949.9%
Joe Biden Biden DEM
2,684,30648.6
Jo Jorgensen Jorgensen LIB
48,6780.9
Write-ins Write-ins WRI
13,3150.2
Howie Hawkins Hawkins GRN
12,1940.2
Don Blankenship Blankenship CST
7,5490.1
We estimate around all votes cast have been counted.
* Incumbent

U.S. Senate results

In the North Carolina U.S. Senate race, the incumbent Thom Tillis (R) is running against Cal Cunningham (D). Tillis has represented North Carolina in the Senate since 2015. The state's other Senate seat is held by Richard Burr (R).

Raleigh

Charlotte

Greensboro

Fayetteville

Wilmington

LEAD/WON

Cunningham

Tillis

CandidateVotes Pct.
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Thom Tillis *Tillis *GOP
2,665,60648.7%
Cal Cunningham Cunningham DEM
2,569,97546.9
Shannon Bray Bray LIB
171,5703.1
Kevin Hayes Hayes CST
67,8181.2
An estimated 99% of votes have been counted.
* Incumbent

Governor results

In the North Carolina governor race, the incumbent Roy Cooper (D) is running against Dan Forest (R).

Raleigh

Charlotte

Greensboro

Fayetteville

Wilmington

LEAD/WON

Cooper

Forest

CandidateVotes Pct.
Check
Roy Cooper *Cooper *DEM
2,834,80451.5%
Dan Forest Forest GOP
2,586,60947.0
Steven DiFiore DiFiore LIB
60,4491.1
Al Pisano Pisano CST
20,9340.4
An estimated 99% of votes have been counted.
* Incumbent

U.S. House results

North Carolina has 13 House seats; 9 are held by Republicans, 3 by Democrats, and one, formerly held by White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, is vacant.

Raleigh

Charlotte

Greensboro

Fayetteville

Wilmington

LEAD/WON

Democrat

Republican

Seat

Current leader

* Incumbent

Results by state

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Sources: Edison Research, Associated Press, ProPublica, U.S. Census Bureau, National Center for Health Statistics, Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, Cook Political Report. Illustrations by Ben Kirchner for The Washington Post.