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New Count Tips Lead To Dems In Heated NC House Race

The NC 103rd House District covers the western side of suburban Charlotte. Image courtesy: North Carolina Legislature

A high-profile legislative race that has been too close to call now appears to favor the Democratic challenger, a potential win that would mean defeat for a powerful committee member. 

It's a contest pitting Republican state representative Bill Brawley against Democrat Rachel Hunt.

The race in the 103rd District was one of the state's most expensive for a General Assembly seat. Brawley's a leader on the House finance committee. Hunt is the daughter of four-term governor Jim Hunt.

Brawley had a 52-vote lead after election night, but additional counting now gives Hunt a small lead. Provisional and additional absentee ballots will be counted this week. 

Democrats won at least eight additional House seats Tuesday, ending the GOP's veto-proof majority in the chamber. Republicans still will have the most seats.

 

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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