(The Center Square) – As North Carolina moved less than 12 weeks from mailing absentee ballots, the state’s total voter registrations rose another 5,325 to within less than 16,000 of 7.8 million.
(The Center Square) – As North Carolina moved less than 12 weeks from mailing absentee ballots, the state’s total voter registrations rose another 5,325 to within less than 16,000 of 7.8 million. (The Center Square) – As North Carolina moved less than 12 weeks from mailing absentee ballots, the state’s total voter registrations rose another 5,325 to within less than 16,000 of 7.8 million. Trending consistent to the most recent nearly two decades, and particularly since the pandemic era, voter registrations are swelling the unaffiliated bloc and dropping the two major parties. This most recent seven-day window, the State Board of Elections data says, was a rate of 9 in 10. For the week posted Saturday, unaffiliated registrations climbed 4,888 of the 5,325 total. Republicans gained 230 and Democrats 174. Total registrations are 7,784,873, with shares 39.7% for unaffiliated (3,093,240), 29.9% Republicans (2,325,667) and 29.7% Democrats (2,314,915). In the past 11 weeks, the total registrations have gone up 49,542. The shares are an increase of 48,540 for independents, an increase of 750 for Republicans and a loss of 11 for Democrats. For the 2026 midterms on Nov. 3, absentee ballots go into the mail Sept. 4 – or 11 weeks from this coming Friday. North Carolinians will choose a U.S. senator, all 14 members of the U.S. House, and all 170 members of the General Assembly.
