Roy Cooper won with 51.5% of the vote (2,834,953 votes), ahead of Dan Forest with 47.0% (2,586,653 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 4.5 percentage points (248,300 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 4.5 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 4.3 points toward Democrats.
5,505,059 votes were counted in this race, for 4 candidates or options.
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