That is a part of our collection taking a look at North Carolina’s registered voters. Different tales embody an in-depth take a look at North Carolina’s Democrat voters and an in-depth take a look at North Carolina’s unaffiliated voters. That is an replace of our story from Sept. 2023.
As of Sept. 28, 2024, North Carolina had 7.6 million registered voters. Of those, 2,285,377 million, or 30%, had been registered as a Republican.
Age
Youthful voters are the least more likely to register as Republican and show the next affinity for registering unaffiliated. Simply 22% of voters ages 18-25 are registered Republican in comparison with 24% of 26-40 year-olds, 33% of 41-65 year-olds, and 36% of voters ages 66 and older.
Because of this, older adults, particularly these ages 66 and older, comprise a bigger share of Republican voters than the general citizens — 24% of all voters are aged 66+ in comparison with the 36% of registered Republican voters. Moreover, Republican voters ages 26-40 and 41-65 comprise a smaller share of the Republican get together than the overall citizens.
Reflecting this age construction, 24% of North Carolina Republican voters first registered to vote earlier than 2000. An extra 17% of Republican voters registered within the 2000s, 29% within the 2010s, and 30% within the 2020s.
Race/ethnicity
North Carolina’s registered Republicans are overwhelmingly white. Eighty-seven % of Republican voters are white in comparison with 63% of the general citizens.
White voters are considerably extra more likely to register Republican (41%) than different teams. Twenty-three % of American Indian voters, 17% of Asian voters, 16% of Hispanic voters, and three% of Black voters are registered Republican in North Carolina.
Fatherland
North Carolina voters born in a Southern or Midwestern state are typically the more than likely to be registered as Republican. Forty-three % of West Virginia-born voters are registered Republican, adopted by South Dakota (40%), Kentucky (38%), Oklahoma (36%), Indiana (36%), and Tennessee (36%).
Simply over 862,000 Republican voters — 42% of the state’s Republican voter inhabitants — had been born in North Carolina. New York (93,000), Virginia (64,000), Pennsylvania (55,000), and Florida (46,000) had been the following most typical birthplaces outdoors of North Carolina.
Registered Republicans born within the South make up 72% of registered Republicans. When excluding North Carolina-born voters, this proportion falls to 42%. The second more than likely place for Republican voters to be born is the Northeast at 14%, adopted by the Midwest at 9%.
Geography
Throughout North Carolina’s 100 counties, the county share of Republican voters varies extensively, reflecting county variations in composition by age, race/ethnicity, and hometown.
Fifty-eight % of energetic voters in Mitchell County had been registered Republican, the best charge statewide. Mitchell County additionally had the bottom charge of registered Democratic voters (9%). Over half of registered voters had been registered Republican in eight different counties: Avery, Yadkin, Wilkes, Stokes, Randolph, Cherokee, Graham, and Davie.
Against this, lower than fifteen % of voters are registered Republican in Halifax, Bertie, Northampton, Orange, Hertford, and Durham counties.
Observe: Evaluation offered is of the 9/28/2024 voter registration file from NC’s State Board of Elections. Evaluation is restricted to people who’re energetic, inactive, or non permanent registered voters. Voters with a reported beginning age of 116 years or older had been excluded from the age evaluation. Thus, these born earlier than 1909 had been excluded. Likewise, voters with registration dates previous to 1930 had been excluded from the registration date evaluation.
