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County results
**Dalton**:
**Pittenger**:
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Lieutenant Governor
before_election
Bev Perdue
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Democratic Party (United States)
after_election
Walter Dalton
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Democratic Party (United States)
Dalton: Pittenger:
The 2008 North Carolina lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 2008, as part of the elections to the Council of State. North Carolina also held a gubernatorial election on the same day, but the offices of governor and lieutenant governor are elected independently.
Democrat Walter H. Dalton was elected lieutenant governor, succeeding term-limited Beverly Perdue, who was elected governor the same day. Dalton won a slightly larger percentage of the vote than did Perdue in her gubernatorial race, while Republican Robert Pittenger won a slightly smaller percentage than GOP gubernatorial nominee Pat McCrory and Libertarian Phillip Rhodes won a slightly larger percentage than his party's nominee for governor, Michael Munger.
This was the last election until 2024 where a Democrat would be elected Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina.
Primary elections
Democratic Party
Walter H. Dalton, North Carolina State Senator
Hampton Dellinger, former Deputy Attorney General of North Carolina and former legal counsel to Governor Mike Easley
Patrick Smathers, Mayor of Canton
Dan Besse, Winston-Salem City Councilman
Primary results by county:
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Republican Party
Robert Pittenger, North Carolina State Senator
Jim Snyder, former state representative and nominee for lieutenant governor in 2004
Timothy Cook, alternative fuel chemist and candidate for lieutenant governor in 2004
Note: Winners of primaries are in ''italics''. Vote totals are official and were derived from the [http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/1875/4822/en/summary.html NC State Board of Elections website], accessed on June 11, 2008.
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