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Breaking down the Amendment vote

By Laura Leslie

Published: 2012-05-09 00:18:40
Updated: 2012-05-09 00:18:40

Posted: May 9, 2012

For opponents of the Marriage Amendment who were surprised by the margin by which it won, this WRAL.com map tells the whole story. 

The Triangle voted against the amendment. It lost 43-57 in Wake County, 30-70 in Durham, 21-79 in Orange County, and 46-54 in Chatham.

Mecklenburg County also voted against the measure, 46-54. And it was narrowly defeated, 49-51, in both Buncombe and Watauga Counties. 

But amendment supporters won the other 93 counties - and with the exception of Guilford, where the vote was 50-50, they generally won big. 

Even the Northeastern counties, traditionally Democratic territory, approved the measure by an average of around 70-30. In the southeastern counties, it won by even bigger margins - 86 to 14 in Robeson County, for example. 

You can check totals by county for the Marriage Amendment and other major state races on our interactive vote tracker, linked at left. 

 

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Doesn't take a rocket (or political) scientist to see the measure fails in the cities, but is carried by the rural and counties. Terrible day for North Carolina.
dbretz
May 9, 2012 12:54 p.m.
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Actually this is a sad and shameful day in North Carolina, one that will be remembered as another time when hate, prejudice, fear, and bigotry won the day here, and one which will eventually be slapped down by the U.S. Supreme Court for the unAmerican unConstitutional action that it was.
patrioticamerican
May 9, 2012 12:53 p.m.
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Great day in NC!
NC Dawg
May 9, 2012 12:27 p.m.
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The marriage amendment passed yesterday overwhelmingly in 93 of our 100 counties. It failed in those counties just where we all knew it would fail. Amen and amen! At least 61% of those that voted for the amendment yesterday had the right choice in mind. The version of the Bible I use spells it out clearly. Period. End of story. Amen and amen!
onthebeach2
May 9, 2012 12:24 p.m.
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I am apparently a second class citizen, not entitled to the same rights, privileges and joys of full citizenship in the state, because of who I am. Set your clocks back 60 years, North Carolina.
Click to view my profile TriangleGayMensChorus
May 9, 2012 12:17 p.m.
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be nice if the link worked so we could see actual totals..when you scroll over there are no numbers..
Click to view my profile 3forme
May 9, 2012 12:03 p.m.
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I live in Wake County and voted FOR the Amendment.
OnlyTheBestWillDo
May 9, 2012 10:56 a.m.
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21-79 in Orange County... Go figure!! I mean, look at Chapel Hill and Carrboro hahaha
Gizmo the Great
May 9, 2012 9:49 a.m.
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