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North Carolina Attorney General election, 2016

North Carolina Attorney General election, 2016
North Carolina
← 2012 November 8, 2016 2020 →
  Josh Stein.jpg BuckNewton.jpg
Nominee Josh Stein Buck Newton
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 2,303,681 2,279,076
Percentage 50.27% 49.73%

Attorney General before election

Roy Cooper
Democratic

Elected Attorney General

Josh Stein
Democratic


Roy Cooper
Democratic

Josh Stein
Democratic

The 2016 North Carolina election was held on November 8, 2016, to elect the Attorney General of North Carolina, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the United States Senate and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper chose not to run for re-election to a fifth term in office, but instead successfully ran for Governor.

Primary elections were held on March 15, 2016.

Democratic former State Senator Josh Stein defeated Republican State Senator Buck Newton in the general election.

Attorney Tim Dunn had announced in November 2014 that he planned to run for Attorney General if Roy Cooper did not run for re-election. Cooper did run for Governor as expected, but Dunn did not make any further announcements and did not end up running.



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