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United States Senate election in North Carolina, 1996

United States Senate election in North Carolina, 1996
North Carolina
1990 ←
November 5, 1996 → 2002

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Nominee Jesse Helms Harvey Gantt
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 1,345,833 1,173,875
Percentage 52.6% 45.9%

Senator before election

Jesse Helms
Republican

Elected Senator

Jesse Helms
Republican


Jesse Helms
Republican

Jesse Helms
Republican

The North Carolina United States Senate election of 1996 was held on 5 November 1996 as part of the nationwide elections to the Senate, and coinciding with the 1996 presidential election. The general election was a rematch of the 1990 election: between the Republican incumbent Jesse Helms and the Democrat nominee Harvey Gantt. Helms won re-election to a fifth and final term by a slightly wider margin than in 1990.

Jesse Helms won the Republican Party's nomination unopposed.


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