North Carolina Attorney General election, 2008

November 4, 2008 (2008-11-04)



Nominee	Roy Cooper	Bob Crumley
Party	Democratic	Republican
Popular vote	2,538,178	1,615,762
Percentage	61.1%	38.9%

Attorney General before election

Roy Cooper
Democratic

Elected Attorney General

Roy Cooper
Democratic

Elections in North Carolina

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The North Carolina Attorney General election, 2008 was held on November 4, 2008, concurrently with the other elections to the Council of State and the gubernatorial election. Incumbent Democratic State Attorney General Roy Cooper won re-election and received the highest number of votes for any statewide Democrat in this year.^[1]

Democratic primary

Candidate

Roy Cooper, incumbent Attorney General

Republican primary

Candidate

Bob Crumley

General election

Polling

Poll source	Date(s) administered	Roy Cooper (D)	Bob Crumley (R)
Public Policy Polling	October 18–18, 2008	59%	32%
Public Policy Polling	September 28–29, 2008	54%	32%
Public Policy Polling	August 20–23, 2008	48%	30%
Public Policy Polling	July 23–27, 2008	50%	35%
Public Policy Polling	May 8–9, 2008	47%	34%

Results

General Election results ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Roy Cooper	2,538,178	61.10
	Republican	Bob Crumley	1,615,762	38.90
Total votes			4,153,940	100.00

Footnotes

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