Orange Co. Results

All results as of 12:06 a.m., Wednesday, May 7, 2008.

All results preliminary and unofficial. The Board of Elections is scheduled to certify results on May 19.

Democratic Primaries

Presidential Preference
Barack Obama 69.60% 27,824
Hillary Clinton 28.87% 11,540
Mike Gravel 0.62% 249
No preference 0.91% 363

US Senate
Kay Hagan 50.83% 17,208
Duskin C. Lassiter 2.81% 952
Jim Neal 38.64% 13,082
Howard Staley 2.34% 792
Marcus W. Williams 5.38% 1,821

Governor
Richard H. Moore 45.17% 16,753
Dennis Nielsen 2.88% 1,067
Bev Perdue 51.95% 19,265
Lieutenant Governor
Walter H. Dalton 24.93% 7,953
Hampton Dellinger 52.95% 16,889
Pat Smathers 10.03% 3,199
Dan Besse 12.08% 3,854

Auditor
Beth A. Wood 70.09% 20,129
Fred Aikens 29.91% 8,590
Commissioner of Insurance
Wayne Goodwin 65.30% 17,754
David C. Smith 34.70% 9,433

Commissioner of Labor
Mary Fant Donnan 39.72% 11,088
Ty Richardson 14.55% 4,061
Robin Anderson 30.56% 8,531
John C. Brooks 15.17% 4,235

Superintendent of Public Instruction
Eddie Davis 40.96% 12,064
June St. Clair Atkinson 59.04% 17,386

Treasurer
Janet Cowell 58.30% 17,122
Michael Weisel 21.49% 6,313
David Young 20.21% 5,936

NC State Senate District 23
Ellie Kinnaird 65.88% 22,946
Moses Carey Jr. 34.12% 11,885

County Commissioner At-Large
Neloa Barbee Jones 20.36% 5,612
Bernadette Pelissier 50.30% 13,865
Mary M. Wolff 29.34% 8,087

County Commissioner District 2
Tommy T. McNeill 13.45% 1,466
Steve Yuhasz 37.23% 4,057
Leo L. Allison 27.72% 3,021
Luther K. Brooks 21.60% 2,354

Republican Primaries

Presidential Preference
Mike Huckabee 9.85% 554
Alan Keyes 2.17% 122
John McCain 70.26% 3,950
Ron Paul 12.90% 725
No preference 4.82% 271

US Senate
Pete Di Lauro 11.46% 635
Elizabeth Dole 88.54% 4,904
US Congress District 4
Augustus Cho 31.72% 1,467
William (B.J.) Lawson 68.28% 3,158

Governor
Bill Graham 11.70% 603
Pat McCrory 39.26% 2,023
Robert F. (Bob) Orr 12.83% 661
Elbie Powers 1.20% 62
Fred Smith 35.01% 1,804

Lieutenant Governor
Timothy Cook 13.69% 591
Greg Dority 10.68% 461
Robert Pittenger 54.26% 2,342
Jim Snyder 21.36% 922

Superintendent of Public Instruction
Joe Johnson 21.80% 850
Richard Morgan 53.58% 2,089
Eric H. Smith 24.62% 960

Nonpartisan Offices/ Referendum
Court of Appeals Judge
Jewel Ann Farlow 27.17% 8,813
Dean R. Poirier 10.69% 3,467
James A. (Jim) Wynn 62.14% 20,159

Court of Appeals Judge (b)
Sam J. Ervin IV 31.79% 10,582
Janet Pueschel 11.76% 3,915
Kristin Ruth 42.23% 14,056
John M. Tyson 14.22% 4,735

District Court Judge
District 15B
Glenn Gerding 21.97% 7,315
Lamar F. Proctor Jr. 14.34% 4,774
Page Vernon 63.69% 21,204

County Land Transfer Tax
For 33.75%
Against 66.25%

Orange County Board of Education
Eddie M. Eubanks 20.96% 7,089
Stephen H. Halkiotis 21.97% 7,432
Al Hartkopf 14.83% 5,016
Tony McKnight 18.24% 6,172
Jeff Michalski 12.29% 4,156
Stan Morris 11.08% 3,747
Write-In 0.64% 217

Chatham Co. Results

County Commissioner District 1
Patrick Barnes 40.37% 5,466
Sally Kost 59.63% 8,074

County Commissioner District 2
Mike Cross 43.27% 5,780
Armentha Lee Davis 23.96% 3,200
Jeffrey Starkweather 32.77% 4,377