Polk County’s June 7 primary results now official
Published 10:00 pm Friday, June 17, 2016
Polk County’s special election results from the June 7 primary are now official following the board of elections canvassing the votes on Tuesday, June 14.
There were three provisional votes and one supplemental vote added during the canvassing to the county’s unofficial results the night of Tuesday, June 7.
Incumbent Patrick McHenry won district-wide and in Polk County as the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives District 10. McHenry received 415 votes in Polk County, according to official results from the Polk County Board of Elections compared to Jeff Gregory with 106 Polk votes, Albert Lee Wiley Jr. with 69 Polk votes and Jeffrey Baker with 24 Polk votes. McHenry won district-wide with 14,816 votes, which was 78.42 percent of the votes. Gregory received 2,277 votes district-wide, followed by Wiley with 905 votes district-wide and Baker with 896 votes district-wide.
McHenry will face Polk County resident Andy Millard (D) in the November election. Millard was not contested in the Democratic race for U.S. Congressman.
The other race in Polk County was for N.C. Supreme Court Associate Justice.
Robert H. (Bob) Edmonds won both statewide and in Polk County. Edmonds received 502 Polk County votes and 235,348 statewide, according to official results. Michael R. (Mike) Morgan received 417 Polk County votes and 168,329 statewide, following by Sabra Jean Faires with 69 Polk County votes and 59,002 statewide and Daniel Robertson with 25 Polk County votes and 27,402 statewide.
Polk County had a 6.64 percent voter turnout for the special primary on June 7 with 1,037 votes cast out of 15,618 registered voters.
Statewide the voter turnout was slightly higher at 7.73 percent. North Carolina cast 508,719 votes out of a total of 6,584,959 registered voters, according to the state board of elections.
The general election will be held on Tuesday Nov. 8. Early voting for the November election will begin on Oct. 27 and end on Nov. 5. The 2016 election includes that voters present identification at the time of voting. This election also includes no straight-party voting.