While Terry offered the most useful analysis, here’s more information about the local tax votes.

No North Carolina county has endorsed the land-transfer tax. That tax went 0-for-4 tonight.

  • Ashe (55 percent voted “no.”)
  • Gates (70 percent)
  • Orange (66 percent)
  • Tyrrell (55 percent)

Counties went 2-for-20 in seeking local sales tax increases.

Cumberland voters endorsed a sales tax increase with 53 percent of the vote, while Haywood voters endorsed the quarter-cent tax increase with 57 percent of the vote.

Meanwhile, voters in 18 counties said no.

  • Duplin (59 percent voted “no.”)
  • Edgecombe (68 percent)
  • Gaston (64 percent)
  • Greene (63 percent)
  • Guilford (75 percent)
  • Henderson (63 percent)
  • Hertford (71 percent)
  • Lee (55 percent)
  • Lincoln (74 percent)
  • Moore (63 percent)
  • Nash (61 percent)
  • Onslow (74 percent)
  • Randolph (70 percent)
  • Rockingham (69 percent)
  • Stanly (66 percent)
  • Wayne (82 percent)
  • Wilkes (65 percent)
  • Wilson (73 percent)

Based on unofficial election night returns, 66 percent of the 536,805 votes cast in local tax referendums opposed tax increases.