Across the country, over 150 million voters participated in the 2024 General Election, surpassing the turnout of most previous elections, except for the exceptional 2020 General Election. Notably, the 2020 General Election was defined by increased access to the polls through mail-in voting and modifications to some restrictive voting rules in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2024, many of the challenges from 2020 resurfaced, interrupting what would have been an otherwise healthy growth in voter turnout.
In North Carolina, despite ever-changing laws and hurdles, voters turned out in droves, even throughout the West, which suffered the most severe natural disaster in the region’s history, Hurricane Helene. Voters in the Tar Heel state may have been anxious about several new election rules, including voter photo ID and registration requirements, but nearly 6 million North Carolinians fully satisfied those requirements to successfully cast their ballots and have them counted.
The workbook below contains 2024 Voter Participation Data for the entire state, with different crosstabs on each spreadsheet. We encourage you to download this data to explore, research, and dive deeper! For example:
- Which counties in North Carolina had the highest turnout of Black voters?
- What was the preferred voting method in my county?
- How many voters in my county had to use provisional ballots?
- Roughly how many college-aged students turned out in 2024? How does this compare to voters over the age of 65?
Democracy NC staff will be updating this page periodically with additional spreadsheets and data visualizations.
All of the data on this page is publicly available from the North Carolina State Board of Elections. As highlighted by the Union of Concerned Scientists in a report on elections data transparency, North Carolina leads the nation in its rigor and accessibility of data. In addition to using this Democracy NC resource, we encourage you to spend some time browsing the thousands of files made available through the State Board.
In the coming months, Democracy NC will release its own analysis related to the 2024 General Election. In the meantime, if you have a question, correction for our team, or a request for a specific crosstab of 2024 Election Data, please contact policydept@democracync.org. For analysis of previous elections, click here