2023 Election

In this year’s Republican primary for North Carolina governor, former congressman Mark Walker is taking a very different path — and it might be the only chance he has to break through against frontrunner Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson. Walker, in an interview this week with Inside Politics said he doesn’t expect Robinson to participate in any debates before the March primary because his campaign team “won’t put him on the stage and let him trip all over himself.”

The turnout for last week’s Charlotte primary election for mayor and City Council was abysmal. It was less than 5% of eligible voters, who were Democrats and unaffiliated. And it was about 4% of all registered voters, which includes Republicans and Libertarians, who couldn’t participate because they didn’t have primaries.

Fewer than 24,000 people voted in Charlotte's primary for City Council and mayor Tuesday.

The city of Charlotte held a primary Tuesday for mayor and City Council. Here are the results, including for at-large positions, District 3 and 4, and Mayor Vi Lyles' reelection campaign.

Major changes are likely coming to North Carolina's voting rules. A bill would eliminate a three-day grace period for counting mail ballots and expand access for partisan poll watchers.

Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles has endorsed Wil Russell against incumbent Renee Johnson in the City Council District 4 race. It's the first time Lyles has made an endorsement for City Council in her six years as mayor.

Fourteen candidates have filed to run for three at-large seats on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board in November. With only one incumbent running, that means new faces on the board.