2016 North Carolina Attorney General election

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2016 North Carolina Attorney General election
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Turnout68.98%
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Nominee Josh Stein Buck Newton
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote2,303,6812,279,076
Percentage50.27%49.73%
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Stein:     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     >90%
Newton:     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     >90%
Attorney General before election

Roy Cooper
Democratic

Elected Attorney General

Josh Stein
Democratic

The 2016 North Carolina election was held on November 8, 2016, to elect the Attorney General of North Carolina, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the United States Senate and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

Contents

Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper chose not to run for re-election to a fifth term in office, and instead successfully ran for Governor. [1]

Primary elections were held on March 15, 2016.

Democratic former state senator Josh Stein defeated Republican state senator Buck Newton in the general election. [2] [3] With a margin of 0.4%, this was the closest attorney general race of the 2016 election cycle.

Democratic primary

Attorney Tim Dunn had announced in November 2014 that he planned to run for attorney general if Roy Cooper did not run for re-election. [4] Cooper did run for governor as expected, but Dunn did not make any further announcements and did not end up running.

Candidates

Declared

  • Josh Stein, former state senator and former deputy attorney general of North Carolina [5]
  • Marcus Williams, attorney, candidate for U.S. Senate in 2008 and 2010, candidate for NC-08 in 2012, and candidate for state senate in 2014 [6]

Declined

Results

Democratic primary results [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Josh Stein 510,003 53.37
Democratic Marcus Williams445,52446.63
Total votes955,527 100.0

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

Declined

Results

Republican primary results [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Buck Newton 503,880 54.9
Republican Jim O'Neill414,07345.1
Total votes917,953 100.0

General election

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin of
error		Josh
Stein (D)		Buck
Newton (R)		OtherUndecided
SurveyUSA [15] October 28–31, 2016659± 3.9%47%43%—10%
Public Policy Polling [16] October 21–22, 2016875± 3.3%44%39%—17%
Civitas Institute [17] October 14–18, 2016651± 3.1%38%40%—18%
Public Policy Polling [18] September 18–20, 20161,024± 3.1%39%35%—25%
Civitas Institute [19] September 11–12, 2016600± 4.0%37%35%—26%
Public Policy Polling [20] August 5–7, 2016830± 3.4%39%38%—23%
Civitas Institute [21] June 21–26, 2016600± 4.0%35%35%—27%
Public Policy Polling [22] May 20–22, 2016928± 3.2%39%38%—22%
RABA Research [23] April 27–28, 2016688± 3.7%40%33%—27%
Civitas Institute [24] April 23–25, 2016600± 4.0%37%32%1%30%
Public Policy Polling [25] March 18–20, 2016843± 3.4%38%37%—24%

Results

[26]

North Carolina Attorney General election, 2016
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Josh Stein 2,303,619 50.27% −49.73%
Republican Buck Newton 2,279,00649.73%N/A
Total votes4,582,625 100.00% N/A
Democratic hold

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  4. 1 2 "Inside Politics: Fayetteville lawyer plans run for state attorney general". The Fayetteville Observer. November 17, 2014. Retrieved November 21, 2014.
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  16. ↑ Public Policy Polling
  17. ↑ Civitas Institute
  18. ↑ Public Policy Polling
  19. ↑ Civitas Institute
  20. ↑ Public Policy Polling
  21. ↑ Civitas Institute
  22. ↑ Public Policy Polling
  23. ↑ RABA Research
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  25. ↑ Public Policy Polling
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