November 8, 2016 2020 → 50.27% 49.73% | 2,303,681 2,279,076 Date 8 November 2016 | |
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Winner Josh Stein | ||
The 2016 North Carolina election was held on November 8, 2016, to elect the Attorney General of North Carolina, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the United States Senate and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
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Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper chose not to run for re-election to a fifth term in office, but instead successfully ran for Governor.
Primary elections were held on March 15, 2016.
Democratic former State Senator Josh Stein defeated Republican State Senator Buck Newton in the general election.
Democratic primary
Attorney Tim Dunn had announced in November 2014 that he planned to run for Attorney General if Roy Cooper did not run for re-election. Cooper did run for Governor as expected, but Dunn did not make any further announcements and did not end up running.