North Carolina lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2008

North Carolina lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2008
North Carolina
November 4, 2008 (2008-11-04)
 
Nominee Walter Dalton Robert Pittenger
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 2,133,058 1,915,012
Percentage 51.1% 45.9%

County results
Lieutenant Governor before election

Bev Perdue
Democratic

 Elected Lieutenant Governor

Walter Dalton
Democratic

The North Carolina lieutenant gubernatorial election of 2008 was held on 4 November 2008, as part of the elections to the Council of State. North Carolina also held a gubernatorial election on the same day, but the offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor are elected independently.

Democrat Walter H. Dalton was elected Lieutenant Governor, succeeding term-limited Beverly Perdue, who was elected governor the same day. Dalton won a slightly larger percentage of the vote than did Perdue in her gubernatorial race, while Republican Robert Pittenger won a slightly smaller percentage than GOP gubernatorial nominee Pat McCrory and Libertarian Phillip Rhodes won a slightly larger percentage than his party's nominee for governor, Michael Munger.

Primary elections

Democratic Party

Democratic primary results[1]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Walter H. Dalton 608,290 45.73
Democratic Hampton Dellinger 446,678 33.58
Democratic Pat Smathers 182,607 13.73
Democratic Dan Besse 92,616 6.96
Total votes 1,330,191 100.00

Republican Party

Republican primary results[2]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Robert Pittenger 261,834 58.94
Republican Jim Snyder 84,403 19.00
Republican Timothy Cook 53,353 12.01
Republican Greg Dority 44,668 10.05
Total votes 444,258 100.00

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General election

Candidates

Result

North Carolina lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2008[6]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Walter H. Dalton 2,133,058 51.10
Republican Robert Pittenger 1,915,012 45.88
Libertarian Phillip Rhodes 126,074 3.02
Voter turnout 100%

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/1875/4822/en/summary.html
  2. ↑ http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/1875/4822/en/summary.html
  3. ↑ Note: Winners of primaries are in italics. Vote totals are official and were derived from the NC State Board of Elections website, accessed on June 11, 2008.
  4. ↑ NC Libertarians release candidate slate
  5. ↑ NC SBOE Candidate List
  6. ↑ "2008 General Election". North Carolina Board of Elections. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
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