North Carolina’s Electoral College members met at the State Capitol on December 17, 2024. (Screenshot via livestream)
Members of North Carolina’s Electoral College gathered at the State Capitol on Tuesday to cast the state’s 16 official ballots for President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance.
Voters from across the country gathered in their respective capitals on Tuesday to cast their ballots and send them to Washington. Congress will meet on January 6 next year to certify votes before the January 20 inauguration.
With 538 electoral votes, a candidate must obtain a majority of 270 to secure the presidency.
The Trump-Vance ticket defeated Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, winning 312 electoral votes to 226.
North Carolina has sixteen electoral votes: one for each of the fourteen representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives and two for the two U.S. Senators.
Trump won the state and all sixteen electoral votes in the winner-takes-all system, so the Republican Party of North Carolina was allowed to nominate the electors.
“The Electoral College represents a proud history of citizens peacefully passing presidential power from one term to another,” said North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall.
Members elected elector Daniel Barry as president of North Carolina’s 59th Electoral College. He presided over the remainder of the ceremony, during which members cast their votes for Trump and Vance.
NCGOP Chairman Jason Simmons of New Hill and Vice Chairman Susan Mills of Fayetteville were the state’s two at-large voters.
These are the other voters:
– District 1: Kimberly Cotton-West, vice chair of the Republican Party of Washington County (Plymouth)
– District 2: Susan Phillips, legislative assistant to Rep. Jay Adams (Cary)
– District 3: Stephanie Broughton, vice president of the coastal region for the North Carolina Federation of Republican Women (Swansboro)
– District 4: Thomas Glendinning, former North Carolina Senate candidate (Pittsboro)
– District 5: Deanna Marie De’Liberto, President of Election Integrity NJ (Greensboro)
– District 6: Guilford County GOP Chairman David Gleeson (Jamestown)
– District 7: Helen Pannullo, Brunswick County GOP Secretary (Ocean Isle Beach)
– District 8: Daniel Barry, former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives (Weddington)
– District 9: Rick Smith, chairman of the Randolph County Republican Party (Asheboro)
– District 10: Leisa Rowe, 2nd Vice Chair for Precinct Organization and Activism at the Republican Party of Iredell County (Statesville)
– District 11: Roxanne Wenzel (Marion)
– District 12: Ernest Wittenborn, Jr., delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention (Charlotte)
– District 13: Michael Magnotta, former candidate for the US House of Representatives (Oxford)
– District 14: Byron Smith (Golden Valley)