The midterm election in Guilford County didn’t produce many surprises.
In the North Carolina state Senate and state House, the incumbents – Democrats and Republicans alike – held on to their seats.
The early voting versus Election Day voting held true to predictions and past elections with the early voting totals heavily favoring Democrats and Election Day voting favoring Republicans. Because the early voting totals are posted first, it appeared some Republican incumbents were in trouble. Republican District 62 State House Rep. John Faircloth was behind Democrat Brandon Gray early in the evening, but as the Election Day votes were counted Faircloth pulled ahead and by the unofficial count won with 20,304 votes for 52.3 percent over Gray who had 18,498 votes for 47.6 percent.
Republican District 59 state House Representative Jon Hardister had a narrow lead when the early votes were reported but ended up with 19,485 votes for 56.4 percent over Democrat Sherrie Young who had 15,054 votes for 43.5 percent.
The Democrat incumbents started the night with big leads, which narrowed somewhat as the Election Day votes were counted, but none ever appeared to be in danger of losing. Democrat District 57 state House Representative Ashton Clemmons won reelection with 19,962 votes for 54.9 percent over Republican Michelle Bardsley with 16,368 votes for 45 percent.
Democrat District 58 state House Representative Amos Quick easily won reelection with 17,070 votes for 69 percent over Republican Chrissy Smith with 7,659 votes for 31 percent.
Democrat District 60 state House Representative Cecil Brockman won with 14,572 votes for 58.9 percent over Republican Bob Blasingame with 10,181 votes for 41.1 percent.
Democrat District 61 state House Representative Pricey Harrison was unopposed and received 100 percent of the vote.
Democrat District 27 state Sen. Michael Garrett with 36,703 votes for 54.4 percent defeated Republican Richard (Josh) Sessoms with 30,806 votes for 45.6 percent.
District 28 state Sen. Gladys Robinson had 45,989 votes for 73 percent defeating Republican Paul Schumacher with 17,038 votes for 27 percent.
Republican District 26 state Sen. Phillip E. (Phil) Berger, who is president pro tem of the state Senate, was unopposed and received 85 percent of the vote.
Statewide the Republicans in the NC state Senate appear to have won a supermajority, enough votes to override the governor’s veto, but in the state House it appears Republicans will fall one seat short of a supermajority.
I know this must be a stupid question, but I’m a foreigner and not as au fait with American electoral procedures as I should be, but how did Phil Berger run unopposed and only get 85% of the vote?
Write-in votes.
Ah, thanks.
We don’t have write-in votes in Britain.
I wrote my name in so I ran against him. I was hoping to get a call that I’d won, but once again, no.
Now let’s demand photo ID!
I recently read an article on introduced mail-in voting in the UK. Mail-in votes were (are) heavily liberal (Labor). Same here in U.S.
I have also spoken with two USPS employees. Mail-in votes are an invitation to fraud. Consider what I got in the mail , and by texts in the 2020 election, I know this to be true.
It should be voter ID required for all, votes cast IN PERSON. Witnessed mail votes for those who cannot physically make it to the polls. That’ll fixit.
The Democrat Playbook gets their cues from the WWII Italian Facists, and German National Socialists. And Brown Shirt street tactics. All they want is POWER (money), the people be damned.
The good news out of this election is that election deniers mostly did very poorly in the election. Hopefully we can finally move on from the Big Lie and stop having to listen this kind of misinformation.
Thanks Miller, I didn’t know there’s mail-in voting in Britain! I came to Greensboro in 1983 (to attend UNC-G), and have only ever voted once in my life (1979 UK General election to support Margaret Thatcher’ Conservatives).
I guess things change after you’ve left a country almost 4 decades ago!
Hence my favorite nickname for the Dems…the (National Socialist} Democrat Party