North Carolina lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2008

November 4, 2008 (2008-11-04)



Nominee	Walter Dalton	Robert Pittenger
Party	Democratic	Republican
Popular vote	2,133,058	1,915,012
Percentage	51.1%	45.9%

County results

Lieutenant Governor before election

Bev Perdue
Democratic

Elected Lieutenant Governor

Walter Dalton
Democratic

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The North Carolina lieutenant gubernatorial election of 2008 was held on 4 November 2008, as part of the elections to the Council of State. North Carolina also held a gubernatorial election on the same day, but the offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor are elected independently.

Democrat Walter H. Dalton was elected Lieutenant Governor, succeeding term-limited Beverly Perdue, who was elected governor the same day. Dalton won a slightly larger percentage of the vote than did Perdue in her gubernatorial race, while Republican Robert Pittenger won a slightly smaller percentage than GOP gubernatorial nominee Pat McCrory and Libertarian Phillip Rhodes won a slightly larger percentage than his party's nominee for governor, Michael Munger.

Primary elections

Democratic Party

Walter H. Dalton, North Carolina State Senator
Hampton Dellinger, former Deputy Attorney General of North Carolina and former legal counsel to Governor Mike Easley
Patrick Smathers, Mayor of Canton
Dan Besse, Winston-Salem City Councilman

Democratic primary results^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Walter H. Dalton	608,290	45.73
	Democratic	Hampton Dellinger	446,678	33.58
	Democratic	Pat Smathers	182,607	13.73
	Democratic	Dan Besse	92,616	6.96
Total votes			1,330,191	100.00

Republican Party

Robert Pittenger, North Carolina State Senator
Jim Snyder, former State Representative and nominee for Lieutenant Governor in 2004
Timothy Cook, alternative fuel chemist
Greg Dority, security consultant

Republican primary results^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Robert Pittenger	261,834	58.94
	Republican	Jim Snyder	84,403	19.00
	Republican	Timothy Cook	53,353	12.01
	Republican	Greg Dority	44,668	10.05
Total votes			444,258	100.00

^[3]

General election

Candidates

Result

North Carolina lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2008^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Walter H. Dalton	2,133,058	51.10
	Republican	Robert Pittenger	1,915,012	45.88
	Libertarian	Phillip Rhodes	126,074	3.02
Voter turnout			100%

Footnotes

↑ http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/1875/4822/en/summary.html
↑ http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/1875/4822/en/summary.html
↑ Note: Winners of primaries are in italics. Vote totals are official and were derived from the NC State Board of Elections website, accessed on June 11, 2008.
↑ NC Libertarians release candidate slate
↑ NC SBOE Candidate List
↑ "2008 General Election". North Carolina Board of Elections. Retrieved 30 January 2011.

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