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Latest North Carolina Voter Registration Stats

By Jeralyn

One stop voter registration and voting is already underway in North Carolina which holds its primary May 6.

Here are the latest voter registration stats for the state. They are broken down by county, but here are the totals as of April 26:

• Total Voters 5,791,221
• Democrats 2,616,995
• Republicans 1,933,929
• Unaffiliated 1,240,297
• White 4,368,780
• African Amer. 1,192,950
• Hispanic 49,835
• American Indian 44,170
• Women 3,163,294
• Men 2,603,775

Since people can register and vote on the same day during one stop voting which doesn't end until May 3, these won't be the final numbers.

Here's what the numbers were at the start of 2008. The number of registered Dems has increased by about 105,000 since January. The number of African American voters for both parties and unaffiliated has increased about 65,000, from 1,128,082 to 1,192,950 (the 4/26 numbers aren't broken down by party.) [More...]

Republican voter registration hasn't changed much since January: it's increased by about 14,000 voters. Unaffiliated has grown by about 65,000 voters.

So there are about 170,000 new Democrat and unaffiliated voters in N.C. since January, and 65,000 new African American voters (including Republicans, but there likely aren't many of those.) Also, I can't tell how many of the newly registered voters are women, but currently they outnumber male voters by 500,000. The 2007 voter by age report is here.

Do these numbers tell us anything one way or the other about the size of the predicted Obama win in North Carolina? A county map is here. State and county demographic numbers are here.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on April 27, 2008 (boomark / email).