1,345,833 1,173,875 Start date November 5, 1996 | 52.6% 45.9% | |
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Winner Jesse Helms | ||
The North Carolina United States Senate election of 1996 was held on 5 November 1996 as part of the nationwide elections to the Senate, and coinciding with the 1996 presidential election. The general election was a rematch of the 1990 election: between the Republican incumbent Jesse Helms and the Democrat nominee Harvey Gantt. Helms won re-election to a fifth and final term by a slightly wider margin than in 1990.
Republican primary
Jesse Helms won the Republican Party's nomination unopposed.
References
United States Senate election in North Carolina, 1996 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA