2006 Election Roundup
Submitted by WakeChair on Thu, 11/09/2006 - 2:16pm.
News
- Russell Capps is GONE!!!
- Democrats defeated THREE Republican incumbents:
- Ty Harrell beat Russell Capps in NC House District 41
- Lindy Brown beat County Commissioner Phil Jeffries
- Lorrin Freeman beat Clerk of Court Jan Pueschel
- ALL Democratic incumbents were re-elected
- US Congressmen Brad Miller, David Price, and Bob Etheridge re-elected
- Janet Cowell and Vernon Malone re-elected to the NC Senate
- Jennifer Weiss, Linda Coleman, Deborah Ross, Grier Martin, and Dan Blue (replacing Bernard Allen) re-elected to the NC House. Six Democrats out of nine House seats in Wake County.
- District Attorney Colon Willoughby re-elected
- Greer Beaty came within 335 votes of defeating Nelson Dollar who ran unopposed in NC House 36 in 2004.
- The school bond, endorsed and supported by the Wake County Democratic Party, and opposed by Russell Capps and the Wake County Taxpayers Association, passed.
- ALL EIGHT of the judges elected in Wake County are Democrats: Paul Ridgeway, Paul Gessner, Craig Croom, James Fullwood, Joy Hamilton, Vince Rozier, Kristin Ruth, Anne Salisbury.
- Outside Wake County, Democrats took back the US Senate and the US House.
- Sarah Parker elected Chief Justice and Associate Justice Patricia Timmons-Goodson elected to the NC Supreme Court.
- Robin Hudson elected to the NC Supreme Court.
- Bob Hunter re-elected to the NC Court of Appeals
- Linda Stephens, running for the NC Court of Appeals, carried Wake County by over 3,000 votes.
- 45,897 straight-ticket Democratic votes vs. 39,787 straight-ticket Republican votes
- Turnout in Wake County was over 40%, better than the estimated 31% state-wide.
