Elections

While the legal battle over last year’s N.C. Supreme Court election is now settled, it’s not the last unresolved election contest remaining in North Carolina. A legal dispute over the 2023 election for mayor of the Robeson County town of Pembroke is still dragging on.

The North Carolina House passed a bill that would put that question to voters in 2025.

Nickel joined the WUNC Politics Podcast this week to talk about how he plans to take on incumbent Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, the prospects that former Gov. Roy Cooper could enter the race, and what he thinks Democrats should do differently to fight the Trump administration.

The U.S. Election Assistance Commission is now central to President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to overhaul elections. One of the commission’s boards will meet Thursday in North Carolina, the first commission-related meeting since the directives were announced.

Democrat Josh Stein has already sued to block legislative Republicans from taking away his powers

North Carolina trial judges have dismissed a lawsuit challenging redrawn legislative and congressional district lines on the argument that they run afoul of an indirect constitutional right to "fair elections." The judges wrote this week that a recent affirmation by the state Supreme Court that redistricting policy decisions are left to the General Assembly still applies.

A divided North Carolina election board has blocked for now the official party recognition of political groups that collected signatures and want Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West on this fall’s presidential ballot.

The start of the end of Reconstruction in the South happened during the 1874 election season. That’s what an author argues in a deeply-researched new book “Sheridan's Secret Mission: How the South Won the War After the Civil War.” It includes the story of a Union General who helped stop a group of white men attempting to overthrow the fairly elected Louisiana state government when the new legislators were to be installed in January 1875.

Scores of candidates filed for nearly a dozen high-profile elected positions in North Carolina where the incumbents aren't running in 2024 because of redistricting, retirements or term limits.

Durham and Chapel Hill are among the North Carolina cities and towns with new mayors after Tuesday's election.