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The 118th Congress is scheduled to be sworn in this week pending the current delay over the majority speaker of the House. There are some new faces from Western North Carolina. Here is how to contact your elected officials.
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This week, the final step of the election process took place. In courthouses across Western North Carolina, local officials were sworn in including county commissioners, school board members, sheriffs and more.
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Republican Debra Hank Dinschel has won a seat on the Graham County Board of Education, following a recount on Friday.
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The State Board of Elections has unanimously certified the results of the 2022 general election in North Carolina. According to state board data released shortly after the votes were certified, more than 3.78 million people voted in the midterm elections.
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Nationally, this year’s election did not result in the “red wave” predicted by pollsters. But in Western North Carolina, Republicans won big. Fewer than 10 Democrats won seats in the whole NC-11 district which encompasses about 15 counties in Western North Carolina.
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Incumbent Republican Mike Clampitt held onto his NC House of Representative seat 119. Clampitt beat Democrat Al Platt with 54 percent of the vote and a majority in all three counties in the district.
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In the closely-watched race for North Carolina’s 11th Congressional district, Republican candidate Chuck Edwards has won 10 percent more votes than Democratic candidate Jasmine Beach-Ferrara.
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As election day draws to a close, Democrats are hoping to fend off Republican hopes for a supermajority in the North Carolina General Assembly. That balance depends on three seats in the North Carolina House of Representatives and two seats in the North Carolina Senate. Here's what happened in WNC.
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Voters in 11 Western North Carolina counties elected new sheriffs this year, following a number of retirements and leading to a changing of the guard in this region.
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Search for any race in North Carolina using this Election Results Dashboard from the North Carolina State Board of Elections.