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Four justices of the seven-member North Carolina Supreme Court and four judges of the 15-member North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina voters on November 4, 2014, concurrently with other state elections. Terms for seats on each court are eight years.
Assessing the election results, Politifact writer Louis Jacobson noted that Supreme Court races in North Carolina and other states yielded "better-than-average results" for Democrats, who otherwise suffered heavy defeats across the country. "In a series of hotly contested North Carolina contests, two Democratic-leaning judges [Ervin and Hudson] prevailed, one Democrat [Beasley] was leading in a very close race, and one Republican [Chief Justice Martin] was re-elected," Jacobson wrote.[1] At the Court of Appeals level, two Democrats, Lucy Inman and Mark Davis, and one Republican, John Tyson, were elected in contested races, while another Republican, Donna Stroud, was re-elected without opposition.[2]
North Carolina ranked second among all states in total spending on judicial election campaigns in 2014.[3][4]
- ^ "Republicans' Election Night wave: It was big". Tampa Bay Times.
- ^ News & Observer
- ^ News & Observer, Oct. 29, 2015
- ^ "The New Politics of Judicial Elections, 2013-14". Archived from the original on April 2, 2016. Retrieved October 29, 2015.
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