Roy Cooper won with 49.0% of the vote (2,309,157 votes), ahead of Pat McCrory with 48.8% (2,298,880 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 0.2 percentage points (10,277 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 0.2 points.
4,711,014 votes were counted in this race, for 3 candidates or options.
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