A general election was held in the U.S. state of North Carolina on November 3, 2020.[1]
To vote by mail, registered North Carolina voters had to request a ballot by October 27, 2020. As of early October, some 1,268,014 voters had requested mail ballots.
See main article: 2020 United States presidential election in North Carolina.
See also: 2020 North Carolina Democratic presidential primary and 2020 North Carolina Republican presidential primary.
North Carolina has 15 electoral votes in the Electoral College.[2] Nominees for the presidential election included Donald Trump (R), Joe Biden (D), and Jo Jorgensen (L), with incumbent president Trump winning the state's electors.
See main article: 2020 United States Senate election in North Carolina.
Thom Tillis (R, incumbent), Cal Cunningham (D), Kevin E. Hayes (C), and Shannon Bray (L) ran for office in the general election of North Carolina, with incumbent Tillis winning a second term.[3]
See main article: 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina.
North Carolina voted for 13 U.S. Representatives, one from each of the state's 13 congressional districts.[4]
| District 1 | G. K. Butterfield, incumbent | Sandy Smith | |||||
| District 2 | Deborah Ross | Alan Swain | Jeff Matemu | ||||
| District 3 | Daryl Farrow | Gregory Murphy, incumbent | |||||
| District 4 | David Price, incumbent | Robert Thomas | |||||
| District 5 | David Wilson Brown | Virginia Foxx, incumbent | Jeff Gregory | ||||
| District 6 | Kathy Manning | Joseph Lee Haywood | |||||
| District 7 | Christopher Ward | David Rouzer, incumbent | Theresa Everett | ||||
| District 8 | Patricia Timmons-Goodson | Richard Hudson, incumbent | |||||
| District 9 | Cynthia Wallace | Dan Bishop, incumbent | |||||
| District 10 | David Parker | Patrick T. McHenry, incumbent | |||||
| District 11 | Morris Davis | Madison Cawthorn | Tracey DeBruhl | Tamara Zwinak | |||
| District 12 | Alma Adams, incumbent | ||||||
| District 13 | Scott Huffman | Ted Budd, incumbent |
See main article: 2020 North Carolina gubernatorial election and 2020 North Carolina Council of State elections. North Carolina is one of 11 states that held elections for governor in the 2020 general election. Roy Cooper (D, incumbent) ran against Dan Forest (R), Al Pisano (C), and Steven DiFiore II (L), and won a second term.[5]
Other executive offices up for election in the general election included lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, treasurer, superintendent of public instruction, auditor, commissioner of agriculture, commissioner of labor, and commissioner of insurance.[6]
See main article: 2020 North Carolina judicial elections.
The outcome of this election affected partisan balance during post-census redistricting.
See main article: 2020 North Carolina Senate election. All 50 seats within the North Carolina Senate were up for election in the general election, with the Democrats making a net gain of one.
See main article: 2020 North Carolina House of Representatives election. All 120 seats within the state's House of Representatives were up for election in the general election, with the Republicans making a four-seat net gain but still falling short of a "veto-proof" 3/5 supermajority.[7]
There were no statewide ballot measures on the ballot in the general election; however, there were local measures for voters in Guilford County, Mecklenburg County, and Wake County.[8]