Election results also show President-elect Trump made some of his biggest gains in North Carolina counties, which are all known for their tobacco products.
View live results of the North Carolina presidential election. See maps of county-by-county presidential election results in the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
Trump won North Carolina in both 2016 and 2020. In 2016, he won the state by a 3.6 percent margin over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Trump received 2,362,631 votes, or 49.83 percent. He was slightly leading polls before the election.
Election Day has passed and North Carolinians made their voices heard in a variety of races. In the presidential election, Donald Trump won the state of North Carolina, receiving 51.1% of the vote and 2,
The GOP's lackluster showing was blamed by some on North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson's gubernatorial campaign which was embroiled in controversy throughout the cycle.
Democrat Josh Stein won the North Carolina governor's race on Tuesday, Edison Research projected, defeating Republican Mark Robinson, whose candidacy imploded following a CNN report that he had called himself a "Black Nazi" and made other offensive remarks on a pornographic website.