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This is part of our series looking at the demographics of North Carolina's registered voters. Other stories include an in-depth look at North Carolina's Republican voters and an in-depth look at North Carolina's unaffiliated voters. This is an update of our story from Sept. 2023. As of Sept. 28, 2024, North Carolina had 7.6 million registered voters. Of these, 2,413,469 million, or 32%, were registered Democrat. Age Older voters are the most likely to register…
This is part of our series looking at the demographics of North Carolina's registered voters. Other stories include an in-depth look at North Carolina's Republican voters and an in-depth look at North Carolina's Democrat voters. This is an update of our story from Sept. 2023. As of Sept. 28, 2024, North Carolina had 7.6 million registered voters. Of these, 2,886,573 million, or 38%, were registered unaffiliated. This post examines the characteristics of North Carolina's unaffiliated…
This is the first in a four-part series on North Carolina’s voters. Today, we take a look at North Carolina’s 7.6 million registered voters. In the coming days, we will take a look at North Carolina’s registered Republicans, Democrats, and Unaffiliated Voters, respectively. As of Sept. 28th, 2024, North Carolina had about 8.5 million voting-eligible adults and 7.6 million registered voters. Their partisan affiliation was roughly split between three groups: unaffiliated, Democrat, and Republican, with…
This post examines changes in registered voters from the years 2013-2023. For an in depth analysis of North Carolina’s 7.3 million registered voters in 2023 and a breakdown of registered Republicans, Democrats, and Unaffiliated voters take a look at our earlier posts in our 2023 election series. With another November election in the rearview, we wanted to see how North Carolina’s voters have changed over the past decade. Since 2013, North Carolina has experienced extensive…
This is part of our series looking at NC’s registered voters. Other stories include an in-depth look at NC’s Republican voters and an in-depth look at NC’s Democrat voters. This is an update of our story from October 2022. As of September 23rd, 2023, North Carolina had 7.3 million registered voters. Of these, 2.6 million or 36.3% were registered unaffiliated. This post examines the characteristics of NC’s unaffiliated voters. Age Younger voters are the most…
This is part of our series looking at NC’s registered voters. Other stories include an in-depth look at NC’s Democrat voters and an in-depth look at NC’s unaffiliated voters. This is an update of our story from October 2022. As of September 23rd, 2023, North Carolina had 7.3 million registered voters. Of these, 2.2 million or 30.09% were registered as a Republican. Age Younger voters are the least likely to register as Republican, reflecting their…
This is part of our series looking at NC’s registered voters. Other stories include an in-depth look at NC’s Republican voters and an in-depth look at NC’s unaffiliated voters. This is an update of our story from October 2022. As of September 23rd, 2023, North Carolina had 7.3 million registered voters. Of these, 2.4 million or 32.89% were registered as a Democrat. Age Older voters are the most likely to register as a Democrat, partly…
This is the first in a four-part series on North Carolina’s voters. Today, we take a look at North Carolina’s 7.3 million registered voters. In the coming days, we will take a look at North Carolina’s registered Republicans, Democrats, and Unaffiliated Voters, respectively. As of September 23rd, 2023, North Carolina had about 7.9 million voting-eligible adults and 7.3 million registered voters. Their partisan affiliation was roughly split between three groups: unaffiliated, Democrat, and Republican, with…
After this piece was published, the DMV reached out to Carolina Demography to note that they have implemented several efforts to increase availability of appointments. These include providing walk-in appointments after noon, opening more offices at 7am, and having Saturday office hours for peak season. They also note that every driver license office in the state takes only walk-ins every afternoon. Starting with the 2023 election, voters in North Carolina will be asked to show…
As of October 29th, 2022, North Carolina had about 7.4 million registered voters. Their partisan affiliation was roughly split between three groups: Democrat, unaffiliated, and Republican, with a slight lead to unaffiliated voters. Specifically: 2,495,097 or 34% were registered Democrat; 2,637,581 or 36% were registered Unaffiliated; 2,221,179 or 30% were registered Republican; and 50,511 or 0.7% were registered to another party. Other party registrations included Libertarian (50,272 or 0.7%) and Green Party (239 or 0.0%).…
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