Wayne King (North Carolina)
Wayne King (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent North Carolina's 11th Congressional District. He lost in the Republican primary on March 3, 2020.
King was a district-level delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from North Carolina.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: North Carolina's 11th Congressional District election, 2020
North Carolina's 11th Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 Republican primary)
North Carolina's 11th Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House North Carolina District 11
Madison Cawthorn defeated Morris Davis, Tracey DeBruhl, and Tamara Zwinak in the general election for U.S. House North Carolina District 11 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Madison Cawthorn (R)  | 54.5 | 245,351 |
 | Morris Davis (D) | 42.3 | 190,609 | |
 | Tracey DeBruhl (L) | 1.9 | 8,682 | |
 | Tamara Zwinak (G) | 1.2 | 5,503 | |
| Total votes: 450,145 | |||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for U.S. House North Carolina District 11
Madison Cawthorn defeated Lynda Bennett in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House North Carolina District 11 on June 23, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Madison Cawthorn | 65.8 | 30,636 |
 | Lynda Bennett | 34.2 | 15,905 | |
| Total votes: 46,541 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 11
Morris Davis defeated Gina Collias, Phillip Price, Michael O'Shea, and Steve Woodsmall in the Democratic primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 11 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Morris Davis | 47.3 | 52,983 |
 | Gina Collias | 22.7 | 25,387 | |
 | Phillip Price | 11.3 | 12,620 | |
 | Michael O'Shea | 11.2 | 12,523 | |
 | Steve Woodsmall | 7.5 | 8,439 | |
| Total votes: 111,952 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 11
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 11 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lynda Bennett | 22.7 | 20,606 |
| ✔ | | Madison Cawthorn | 20.4 | 18,481 |
 | Jim Davis | 19.3 | 17,465 | |
 | Chuck Archerd | 9.1 | 8,272 | |
 | Wayne King | 8.7 | 7,876 | |
 | Daniel Driscoll | 8.6 | 7,803 | |
 | Joseph Osborne | 7.1 | 6,470 | |
 | Vance Patterson | 2.5 | 2,242 | |
 | Matthew Burril (Unofficially withdrew) | 0.6 | 523 | |
 | Albert Wiley Jr. | 0.4 | 393 | |
| Dillon Gentry | 0.4 | 390 | ||
 | Steven Fekete | 0.2 | 175 | |
| Total votes: 90,696 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Mark Meadows (R)
Green primary election
The Green primary election was canceled. Tamara Zwinak advanced from the Green primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 11.
Libertarian primary election
The Libertarian primary election was canceled. Tracey DeBruhl advanced from the Libertarian primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 11.
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Wayne King did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
King's campaign website stated the following:
| “ |
Wayne will Defend Our Constitution, Our Country, Our Values, and Our President By: |
” |
| —Wayne King's campaign website (2020)[3] | ||
2016 Republican National Convention
Delegate rules
Delegates from North Carolina to the Republican National Convention were elected at congressional district conventions and the state convention in May. Delegates from North Carolina were required by state party rules to declare themselves in public "as a representative of a Candidate on the Presidential Preference Primary ballot" prior to their election as a delegate. At-large delegates were required to list their top three presidential candidates in order of preference and indicate whether they would be willing to commit to a candidate whom they do not personally favor.
North Carolina primary results
| North Carolina Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald Trump |
40.2% | 462,413 | 29 | |
| Ted Cruz | 36.8% | 422,621 | 27 | |
| John Kasich | 12.7% | 145,659 | 9 | |
| Marco Rubio | 7.7% | 88,907 | 6 | |
| Ben Carson | 1% | 11,019 | 1 | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.3% | 3,893 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.3% | 3,071 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.2% | 2,753 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.1% | 1,256 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 929 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0.1% | 663 | 0 | |
| Jim Gilmore | 0% | 265 | 0 | |
| Other | 0.5% | 6,081 | 0 | |
| Totals | 1,149,530 | 72 | ||
| Source: The New York Times and North Carolina Board of Elections | ||||
Delegate allocation
North Carolina had 72 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 39 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's 13 congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated proportionally according to the statewide vote.[4][5]
Of the remaining 33 delegates, 30 served at large. North Carolina's at-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis according to the statewide primary vote. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[4][5]
See also
2020 Elections
Footnotes
- ↑ NC GOP, "ICYMI: NCGOP 2016 State Convention Recap," accessed June 16, 2016
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Wayne King's 2020 campaign website, "Where Wayne Stands," accessed February 17, 2020
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
