2022 Election

There's a stretch of rural counties along U.S. 74 that’s mostly majority-minority and used to be reliably Democratic. After Obama’s election in 2012 they started flipping in federal races. Anson County was the hold out, until last month’s election.

In Mecklenburg County, women won electoral races up and down the ballot, beating men for county commission, school board and legislative seats in the 2022 general election.

The aftermath of any election brings celebration and gloating from groups that backed winners. But this Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools board election, unusual in so many ways, left me wondering whether any of the traditional groups can claim the role of kingmaker (or perhaps, given the preponderance of female victors, queenmaker).

Here's when the polls close in North and South Carolina, where you can vote and when you need absentee ballots postmarked or returned.

Next month's midterm elections could hinder national and local efforts to pass or even keep laws addressing climate change, according to experts from Duke University. But climate change is mostly absent from the discussion on the campaign trail.

In this episode, we're joined by the two candidates for North Carolina’s 14th Congressional District: Democrat Jeff Jackson and Republican Pat Harrigan. Their differences will certainly be clear, but they also have something in common: Both served in Afghanistan.

Statesville's mayor and at-large seats on the city council are up for election, as well as Mooresville's commissioners.

The mayor and alderman elections in Hickory are on the ballot.

Elections for the Charlotte city council and mayor are on the ballot.

The Republican primary for North Carolina's open U.S. Senate seat is heating up. Former Gov. Pat McCrory is the subject of an attack ad that used spliced-together quotes from his old radio show to make it sound like he condemned supporters of former President Trump while defending Black Lives Matter protesters. A fact-checker says that's misleading.