2020 North Carolina Attorney General election

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2020 North Carolina Attorney General election
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Nominee Josh Stein Jim O'Neill
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote2,713,4002,699,778
Percentage50.13%49.87%
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Stein:     50-60%     60-70%     70-80%     80–90%     >90%
O'Neill:     50-60%     60-70%     70-80%     80–90%     >90%
Tie:     50%
Attorney General before election

Josh Stein
Democratic

Elected Attorney General

Josh Stein
Democratic

The 2020 North Carolina election for Attorney General was held on November 3, 2020, to elect the Attorney General of North Carolina, concurrently with the 2020 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

Party primary elections were held on March 3, 2020.

Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein, first elected in 2016, ran for re-election against Republican Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O'Neill. [1] With a narrow margin separating Stein and O'Neill (0.26%), the Associated Press was finally able to call Stein the winner on November 17, 2020, (two weeks after Election Day). [2] This also made this attorney general race the closest of the 2020 election cycle.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

  • Jim O'Neill, Forsyth County district attorney and candidate for North Carolina Attorney General in 2016 [4]

Eliminated in primary

Results

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Results by county
  O'Neill
  •   30–40%
  •   40–50%
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
  •   70–80%
  Hayes
  •   30–40%
  •   40–50%
  •   50–60%
  Mumma
  •   30–40%
  •   40–50%
Republican primary results [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Jim O'Neill 338,567 46.55%
Republican Sam Hayes226,45331.14%
Republican Christine Mumma162,30122.31%
Total votes727,321 100.00%

General election

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
The Cook Political Report [8] Lean DJune 25, 2020

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin of
error		Josh
Stein (D)		Jim
O'Neill (R)		OtherUndecided
East Carolina University [9] October 27–28, 20201,103 (LV)± 3.4%49%42%3% [a] 6%
Meeting Street Insights (R) [10] October 24–27, 2020600 (LV)± 4%49%44%–4%
East Carolina University [11] October 15–18, 20201,155 (LV)± 3.4%49%44%2% [b] 5%
East Carolina University [12] October 2–4, 20201,232 (LV)± 3.2%43%46%2% [c] 9%
Cardinal Point Analytics (R) [13] July 22–24, 2020735 (LV)± 3.6%40%45%–15%
Cardinal Point Analytics (R) [14] July 13–15, 2020547 (LV)± 4.2%43%43%–14%

Results

North Carolina Attorney General election, 2020 [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Josh Stein (incumbent) 2,713,400 50.13% −0.14%
Republican Jim O'Neill2,699,77849.87%+0.14%
Total votes5,413,178 100.00% N/A
Democratic hold

By congressional district

Despite losing the state, O'Neill won 8 of 13 congressional districts. [16]

DistrictSteinO'NeillRepresentative
1st 56%44% G. K. Butterfield
2nd 65%35% George Holding
Deborah K. Ross
3rd 39%61% Greg Murphy
4th 67%33% David Price
5th 34%66% Virginia Foxx
6th 62%38% Mark Walker
Kathy Manning
7th 43%57% David Rouzer
8th 48%52% Richard Hudson
9th 46%54% Dan Bishop
10th 33%67% Patrick McHenry
11th 45%55% Madison Cawthorn
12th 70%30% Alma Adams
13th 34%66% Ted Budd

Notes

  1. ↑ Did/would not vote with 3%
  2. ↑ Would/did not vote with 2%
  3. ↑ Would not vote with 2%

References

  1. ↑ Friedman, Corey (November 9, 2016). "Josh Stein bests Buck Newton in attorney general race". The Wilson Times. Archived from the original on November 10, 2016. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein Wins Reelection". WUNC. November 18, 2020. Retrieved August 18, 2024.
  3. ↑ Bonner, Lynn; Thompson, Elizabeth (March 10, 2019). "Who's running in North Carolina's 2020 statewide races?". The News & Observer. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
  4. ↑ Hewlett, Michael (February 8, 2019). "Forsyth DA Jim O'Neill announces run for N.C. attorney general. He ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination in 2016". Winston-Salem Journal.
  5. ↑ Fain, Travis (December 20, 2019). "Filing flurry fills NC ballots". WRAL. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
  6. ↑ Specht, Paul (December 20, 2019). "NC Attorney General Stein gets challenge from innocence group leader". WRAL. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
  7. ↑ "NC SBE Contest Results". er.ncsbe.gov. North Carolina Board of Elections. Retrieved June 5, 2020.
  8. ↑ "An Updated Look at Handicapping the 2020 Attorney General Elections". The Cook Political Report. Retrieved September 13, 2019.
  9. ↑ East Carolina University
  10. ↑ Meeting Street Insights (R) Archived 2020-10-31 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ East Carolina University
  12. ↑ East Carolina University
  13. ↑ Cardinal Point Analytics (R)
  14. ↑ Cardinal Point Analytics (R)
  15. ↑ "State Composite Abstract Report - Contest.pdf" (PDF). North Carolina State Board of Elections. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
  16. ↑ "DRA 2020". Daves Redistricting. Retrieved August 18, 2024.

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