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GOP Retains General Assembly Majority

PAUL GARBER/WFDD FILE PHOTO

Republicans retained control of the General Assembly after Tuesday's election, and with the win, the GOP will once again control how the state's political boundaries are drawn.

North Carolina Republicans held both General Assembly chambers despite a massive effort to flip them. 

Democrats went on a multimillion-dollar spending push to win several additional seats, but the plan didn't pan out for them.

With this win for the Republican party, they have extended control for another two years. 

This will allow them to redraw district maps for the next decade based on new census figures. Republicans controlled the redistricting in the 2010s. These maps were frequently in court after Democrats and voting rights advocates filed lawsuits.

Many districts had to be redrawn over the years after federal judges found the maps to be gerrymandered.

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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