2020 North Carolina Attorney General election

2020 North Carolina Attorney General election

← 2016 November 3, 2020 2024 →
Turnout75.35% Increase 6.37 pp
 
Nominee Josh Stein Jim O'Neill
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 2,713,400 2,699,778
Percentage 50.13% 49.87%

Stein:      50-60%      60-70%      70-80%      80–90%      >90%
O'Neill:      50-60%      60-70%      70-80%      80–90%      >90%
Tie:      50%

Attorney General before election

Josh Stein
Democratic

Elected Attorney General

Josh Stein
Democratic

The 2020 North Carolina election for Attorney General was held on November 3, 2020, to elect the Attorney General of North Carolina, concurrently with the 2020 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.

Party primary elections were held on March 3, 2020.

Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein, first elected in 2016, ran for re-election against Republican Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O'Neill.[1] With a narrow margin separating Stein and O'Neill (0.26%), the Associated Press was finally able to call Stein the winner on November 17, 2020, (two weeks after Election Day).[2] This also made this attorney general race the closest of the 2020 election cycle.

  1. ^ Friedman, Corey (November 9, 2016). "Josh Stein bests Buck Newton in attorney general race". The Wilson Times. Archived from the original on November 10, 2016. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
  2. ^ "Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein Wins Reelection". WUNC. November 18, 2020. Retrieved August 18, 2024.