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Among the results certified Tuesday were the election of Republican U.S. Rep. Ted Budd to the U.S. Senate and all 14 of the state’s U.S. House races. The board's executive director says county and state audits substantiated the accuracy of the count.

Republican U.S. Rep. Ted Budd has won North Carolina's open Senate seat. The three-term House member defeated Democrat Cheri Beasley on Tuesday and will succeed the retiring GOP Sen. Richard Burr.

The race for North Carolina's next U.S. senator is between sitting Congressman Ted Budd and a former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley.

Good evening! Follow live updates as ¹ÏÉñapp reporters, producers and editors cover Election Day 2022 across the Triangle. Digital editors Elizabeth Baier and Laura Pellicer are curating the blog tonight.

Western Carolina University Political Science Professor Chris Cooper lays out North Carolina's thorough elections process from early voting through the post-election canvass period

Former President Barack Obama has endorsed North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley in a new campaign ad. Democrats are targeting the Southern swing state as one of the few where they have a strong shot at flipping a seat in the evenly split chamber.

Budd's campaign reported over the weekend — on the Federal Election Commission's deadline date — that it raised $4.77 million during the three months ending Sept. 30. That's barely one-third the $13.36 million that Beasley told the FEC that she raised — in keeping with what her campaign already had disclosed last week.

National Democrats are trying to narrow the gap with rival Republican groups in North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race.

In what will likely be their only debate together, Democrat Cheri Beasley and Republican Ted Budd took questions Friday night at the Spectrum ¹ÏÉñapp studio in Raleigh.

On North Carolina’s horizon is a consequential midterm, which is headlined by an open U.S. Senate seat, and underscored in-part by races that will determine party control of the state Supreme Court.