NC State Board of Elections full list of candidates link for the Primary May 8th. 

Caldwell County Board of Elections link.

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Caldwell County Commissioners        (3 seats open)

• Ben Griffin (R)
• Clay Bolinger (R)
• Arnold Wilson (R)
• Jeff Branch (R)
• Tommy Courtner (R)
• Phil Ingle (R)
• Randy Church (R)  Ran as a Democrat in 2008 for county commissioner.

US House (NC 11th District)

• Mark Meadows (R)
• Vance Patterson (R)
• Jeff Hunt (R)
• Spence Campbell (R)
• Kenny West (R)
• Ethan Wingfield (R)
• Chris Petrella (R, but ran as Dem in NV Govenor race 2002)
• Susan Harris (R, but ran as Dem in US Senate race 2010)
• Tom Hill (D)
• Hayden Rodgers (D)
• Cecil Bothwell (D)

Register of Deeds

• Wayne Rash (R)

NC Senate (45)  — Caldwell County

• Dan Soucek (R)
• George S. Robinson (R)
• Roy Carter (D)

NC Senate (46) – Burke County

• Warren Daniel (R)
• Richard Ivey (Lib)
• John McDevitt (D)

NC House (87)

• Edgar Starnes (R)
• Jordon Greene (R)

Presidential

• Rick Santorum (R)
• Ron Paul (R)
  
• Newt Gingrich (R)
  
• Mitt Romney (R)
• Gary Rogers (Lib)
  
• RJ Harris (Lib)
• Gary Johnson (Lib)
• Carol Person (Lib)
• Bill Still (Lib)
• Lee Wrights (Lib)
• Barack Hussein Obama (D)

Governor

• Pat McCrory (R)
• Jim Harney (R)
• Jim Mahan (R)
• Charles Kenneth Moss (R)
• Paul Wright (R)
• Scott A. Jones (R)
• Walter Dalton (D)
• Gary M. Dunn (D)
• Bill Faison (D)
• Gardenia Henley (D)
• Bruce Blackmon (D)
• Bob Etheridge (D)
• Barbara Howe (Lib)

Lieutenant Governor

• Dan Forest (R)
• Dale Folwell (R)
• Tony Gurley (R)
• Arthur Jason Rich (R)
• Grey Mills (R)
• Eric L. Mansfield (D)
• Linda Coleman (D)

Check our website throughout the remainder of the Primary and General Elections.  We will add new information as it changes.

—————————  other statewide races —-

Attorney General

• Roy Cooper (D)

Secretary of State

• Mike Bietler (R)
• A.J. Daoud (R)
• Kenn Gardner (R)
• Ed Goodwin (R)
• Elaine Marshall (D)

State Treasurer

• Steve Royal (R)
• Frank Rouche (R)
• Janet Cowell (D)
• Ron Elmer (D)

State Auditor

• Joseph Hank DeBragga (R)
• Greg Dority (R)
• Debra Goldman (R)
• Fern Shubert (R)
• Rudy Wright (R)  Hickory Mayor
• Beth Wood (D)

Superintendent of Public Instruction

• Ray Ernest Martin (R)
• David Scholl (R)
• John Tedesco (R)
• Richard Alexander (R)
• Mark Crawford (R)
• June Atkinson (D)

Agriculture Commissioner

• Bill McManus (R)
• Steve Troxler (R)
• Walter Smith (D)
• Scott Bryant (D)

Insurance Commissioner

• James McCall (R)
• Richard Morgan (R)
• Mike Causey (R)
• Wayne Goodwin (D)

Labor Commissioner

• Cherie Berry (R)
• Marlowe Foster (D)
• Ty Richardson (D)
• John C. Brooks (D)

NC Supreme Court Associate Justice  (1 seat)

• Paul M. Newbie (R)  — He is the 5th of the conservative 5:4 court.  His loss will shift court to a 4:5 liberal majority.
• Sam J. Ervin IV

Check our website throughout the remainder of the Primary and General Elections.  We will add new information as it changes.

2012 candidate list