Congress

Nationally, Democrats began Election Day needing a net pickup of 23 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives to regain control of the chamber; as of press time they were poised to do just that, defeating several well-known Republicans, but N.C. 11th District Congressman Mark Meadows, R-Asheville, wasn’t one of them.

Meadows defeated McDowell County Democrat Phillip Price by a margin of 59-38. Meadows won his first three elections with ever-increasing margins of 57, 62 and 64 percent of the vote, respectively.

"I'm honored, humbled, and grateful to again receive the trust of Western North Carolinians to serve them in Congress for another term,” said Meadows in a statement released election night. “Their support has been unwavering and truly means the world to me.”

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N.C. General Assembly

Senate

Franklin Republican Sen. Jim Davis will serve his fifth term after defeating Franklin High School and former submarine commander Bob Kuppers by a 60-40 margin.

House

Republicans looking to maintain their veto-proof supermajority over Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper could only afford to lose four seats to keep it; two that were thought vulnerable by Democrats were here in Western North Carolina.

Franklin Republican Rep. Kevin Corbin wasn’t one of those, and easily cruised to victory over Clay County Democrat Aaron Martin, earning his second term in the process. Corbin’s 73 percent vote total was a slight improvement on 2016, when he garnered 72 percent of the vote in his rural 120^th District, which covers Cherokee, Clay, Graham and Macon Counties.

One seat that was, however, was looked at as an opportunity for a Dem pickup was that of Rep. Michele Presnell, R-Burnsville. In 2016, Presnell earned her third term in the General Assembly by defeating Haywood County Democrat Rhonda Cole Schandevel, and this year did it again, by a 57-42 margin.

But probably the most vulnerable House seat in the state was that of freshman Bryson City Republican Rep. Mike Clampitt, who narrowly defeated Waynesville architect and former Rep. Joe Sam Queen in 2016 by less than 300 votes after losing to him twice previously.

This time around, however the seat’s flipped back to Queen, who said he knows exactly why.

“The facts — and the people getting them straight,” he said. “That has been a big help.”

Queen also said he’d like to return to some unfinished business he left in Raleigh last time around.

“I want to expand Medicaid. I’m still working hard on that because it makes so much sense,” he said. “That’s why I beat Clampitt. My constituents weren’t going to stand for that. Even if you’re from Mars you can see that.”

Like other Dems across the state, Queen has held to his message of supporting education.

“I’m not interested in pretending we’re fixing education when we’ve actually been undermining it,” he said. “I will push that hard for my governor, my state, and the future of our young people.”

Proposed N.C. Constitutional Amendments

With 94.79 percent of the state reporting

Protect right to hunt and fish

For: 57.18%

Against: 42.82&

Strengthening victims rights

For: 62.05%

Against: 37.95%

Maximum income tax rate of 7.0%

For: 57.32%

Against: 42.68%

Photo ID to vote

For: 55.45%

Against: 44.55%

Nonpartisan judicial merit commission

For: 33.14%

Against: 66.86%

Bipartisan board of ethics and elections

For: 38.37%

Against: 61.63%

N.C. 11th District

Mark Meadows* (R)             176,900         59.24%

Phillip Price (D)                    115,665         38.73%

Clifton Ingram (I)                 6,068              2.03%

N.C. Senate District 50

Jim Davis* (R)                        48,107                        60.32%

Bob Kuppers (D)                  31,648                        39.68%

N.C. House District 120

Kevin Corbin* (R)                 25,448                        73.45%

Aaron Martin (D)                  9,201              26.55%

N.C. House District 119

Mike Clampitt* (R)                14,166                        47.69%

Joe Sam Queen (D)               15,537                        52.31%

N.C. House District 118

Michele Presnell* (R)           19,312                        57.24%

Rhonda Schandevel (D)       14,425                        42.76%

Haywood County Commission

Tommy Long (R)                   12,953                        18.82%

Kirk Kirkpatrick* (D)            11,953                        17.37%

Mark Pless (R)                       11,377            16.53%

Mike Sorrells* (D)                 11,322                        16.45%

Danny Davis (D)                   10,896                        15.84%

Phillip Wight (R)                   10,308                        14.98%

Haywood County Tax Collector

Mike Matthews* (R)             11,797                        47.85%

Greg West (D)                       12,855                        52.15%

Haywood Board of Education

Jimmy Rogers*                       12,910                        70.05%

Jonathan Rowland                5,468              29.67%

Judicial races

District Justice

Kristina Earwood (R)           41,511                        64.36%         

Leo Phillips (R)                      22,992                        35.64%

Superior Court Justice

Bradley Letts* (D)                 16,914                        54.68%

Mark Melrose (D)                 14,017                        45.32%