April's Analysis of North Carolina Registered Voter Pool

While April 1 lands on a Sunday, the latest North Carolina State Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement data, posted on Saturday, March 31, gives information about the 6.9 million registered voters in the state.

First, the state's political party registration among these voters breaks down as 38 percent registered Democrat, 31 percent registered unaffiliated, 30 percent registered Republican, 1 percent registered Libertarian, and 0.000004 percent (or, 3 voters) who have registered with the recently approved Green Party in the Old North State.

Among the five different generational cohorts, the party registration continues to demonstrate a trend among younger voters to opt to registered unaffiliated:

Voting is underway for the 2016 election in North Carolina

With the start of mail-in balloting in North Carolina last Friday (Sept. 9, 2016), votes are officially being cast for the 2016 election.

In 2012, 218,102 ballots were cast by mail, with 50 percent coming from registered Republicans, 28 percent from registered Democrats, and 22 percent from registered unaffiliated voters (registered Libertarians were only 490 mail-in ballots).*

In comparison, in-person early ballots were 2,556,228, with 49 percent coming from registered Democrats, 30 percent from registered Republicans, and 21 percent from registered unaffiliated voters (again, registered Libertarians were zero percent, or 5,804 ballots).

So far in 2016, the mail-in ballots in North Carolina that have been accepted are:

By percentages, accepted mail-in ballots are 47 percent from registered Democrats, 27 percent from registered unaffiliated voters, 26 percent from registered Republicans, and one percent from registered Libertarians.

*updated to include requests from fax and e-mail requested.