The State Board of Elections on Tuesday unanimously certified the results of the 2024 general election in North Carolina, ensuring the ballots of more than 5.7 million voters were counted.
The bipartisan State Board voted 5–0 to canvass the votes cast in all ballot items within the jurisdiction of the State Board, including the presidential contest, and authenticate the count in every ballot item, except for contests under recount.
More than 5.7 million NC voters cast ballots in the November 5 election, a 73.7 percent turnout of registered voters.
“Today, the State Board made sure that the votes of more than 5.7 million North Carolinians who voted in the 2024 election were counted,” said Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the State Board of Elections. “We appreciate the hard work of election officials and poll workers across North Carolina who helped make this election a success, despite the catastrophic Hurricane Helene, which struck just weeks before Election Day.”
According to information on the N.C. State Board of Elections website, certificates of elections will be issued to winning candidates 6 days after today’s canvass, except for the presidential race (determined by the Electoral College), contests under recount and contests with pending protests.
The 10 contests currently under review include:
- NC Supreme Court Associate Justice Seat 6 (Statewide)
- NC State Senate District 18 (Granville, Wake)
- NC State Senate District 42 (Mecklenburg)
- NC House of Representatives District 032 (Granville, Vance)
- NC House of Representatives District 105 (Mecklenburg)
- Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners (Cabarrus)
- Pitt County Board of Commissioners District C (Pitt)
- City of Trinity City Council Ward 03 (Randolph)
- Rowan-Salisbury Schools Board of Education Seat 05 (Salisbury) (Rowan)
- Wilson County Board of Education District 04 (Wilson)
The state certification came after the 100 county boards of elections recently certified results at the county level and after post-election audits conducted over the past couple weeks verified the counts. The State Board will issue certificates of election to the prevailing candidates in contests under State Board jurisdiction.
