(The Center Square) – Voter registrations are 98.6% of the 2024 Election Day presidential cycle in North Carolina following a second straight week of gains overall and for each of the three major voting blocs.
Routine maintenance throughout the year is a key contributing factor to the volume changes. In addition, the Registration Repair Project has been ongoing to collect identification numbers from registered voters where the state database does not have the lawfully required driver’s license number, identification number from the Division of Motor Vehicles, or a Social Security number.
In the most recent seven days update posted Saturday by the State Board of Elections, 89.2% (7,125) of the 7,987 net increase in registrations were in the independent bloc of unaffiliated voters. Republicans had a 10.8% share (865) and Democrats one-tenth of 1% (119).
Total registrations are 7,727,643 – down slightly from the 7,839,911 on Nov. 3, 2024, when the state’s top 10 executive offices were decided and Donald Trump carried the state in a presidential race for the third time since 2016. The percentage shares were 37.7% unaffiliated, 31.3% Democrats and 29.9% Republicans.
Today, the split is 39.3% unaffiliated, 30.1% Republican and 29.9% Democrats.
