Tuesday is election day across North Carolina in the Republican run-off primary for lieutenant governor and state auditor.
The election is open to Republican voters and to unaffiliated voters — with the exception of unaffiliated voters who cast a Democratic or Libertarian ballot in the March primary.
The candidates are:
- Jim O’Neill and Hal Weatherman for lieutenant governor.
- Dave Boliek and Jack Clark for state auditor.
The polls are open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Click or tap here for a map of voting precincts, click or tap here for a list of precincts and polling sites, and click or tap here put in your address to find your precinct.
This run-off election, officially called a second primary, is underway because in the initial primary in March, no candidate in the two races received the minimum number of votes required to be declared the winner. To win a partisan primary, a candidate needs to receive more than 30% of the votes.
If no candidate gets more than 30% of the votes in the first primary, a second primary is conducted if the second-place finisher requests it.
In this case, Boliek and O’Neill requested run-offs.
In the lieutenant governor primary in March, Weatherman got 19.59% of the votes among 11 GOP candidates, and O’Neill got 15.84%.
In the state auditor race in March, Clark received 23.24% of the votes among six candidates, and Boliek had 22.10%.
Boliek lived in the Fayetteville area for about 26 years, before moving to Durham in 2023, and he practices law here.
Senior reporter Paul Woolverton can be reached at 910-261-4710 and pwoolverton@cityviewnc.com.
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