Republicans won the majority of the local races in Craven County which is home to our current democrat Governor Beverly Perdue, so what do political leaders there think about the election of our state's first Republican Governor in 20 years?

Elections numbers Wednesday afternoon showed 4.5 million ballots had been cast for a voter turnout so far of 67.7 percent based on more than 6.6 million registered voters in the state.

As provisional ballots are being evaluated for approval, North Carolina's lieutenant gubernatorial race is still too close to call.

The margin between Republican Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama was nearly 97,000 votes in North Carolina. See which counties supported which candidate.

Voters have decided a lot more than the presidential and congressional races.

There were several upsets in Eastern Carolina races this Decision 2012.

Republican Newcomer Brian Brown has unseated longtime State House member, Democrat Marian McLawhorn in District 9.

Voters are returning Republican U.S. Rep. Walter Jones to the U.S. House.

Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield has won a fifth term.

Pat McCrory will be the first Republican governor in North Carolina in 20 years.

The presidential race is still too close to call as of 11 p.m.

Former Gov. Angus King has won the Senate race in Maine, running as an independent. King will take over the seat held by retiring Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe. Another independent, Vermont's Sen. Bernie Sanders, also has been re-elected.

Kellie Hopkins, Beaufort County Board of Elections Director, tells WITN that problems with printers were reported at the precincts in Edward, Washington Park and North Creek.

Greene and Lenoir counties will see some change up on the local level that has nothing to do with elections this year.

The New Hampshire villages of Dixville Notch and Hart's Location have maintained their tradition of heading to the polls at midnight on Election Day.

Candidates for North Carolina were still campaigning Monday. Lieutenant Governor Walter Dalton visited East Carolina University's campus Monday. McCrory was campaigning at Wingate University southeast of Charlotte.

Two fierce competitors who've given their all, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney now yield center stage to voters Tuesday for an Election Day choice that will frame the contours of government and the nation for years to come.

Jim Turner of Pine Knoll Shores made the post Saturday and since then it's gone viral.

It wasn't quite a guarantee, but Vice President Joe Biden predicted Sunday that he and President Barack Obama will win re-election -- "and I don't think it's going to be close in the Electoral College."

Mitt Romney is praising New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's response to Hurricane Sandy.

Power generators are being marshaled, polling locations moved and voting machines hurriedly put into place as officials prepare to hold the election in storm-ravaged sections of New York and New Jersey barely a week after Superstorm Sandy.

One of Barack Obama's most popular political surrogates -- Bill Clinton -- is stumping in North Carolina to try to boost the president's chances in a state that he won four years ago.

Just two days from the finish, President Barack Obama's campaign is mobilizing a massive get-out-the-vote effort aimed at carrying the Democrat to victory, as Republican Mitt Romney makes a late play for votes in Democratic-leaning Pennsylvania.

Republicans vigorously pursued their last, longshot chances for taking control of the Senate - Pennsylvania topped their list - as Democrats remained cautiously optimistic that they'd retain their narrow majority after Tuesday's suspense-filled elections.

Democratic candidate, Lt. Governor Walter Dalton, and Republican opponent, Pat McCrory, both campaigned Saturday in Greenville.