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Constitution Party Candidate Wins County in North Carolina’s Sixth Congressional Race

Kevin Hayes, the Constitution Party candidate for North Carolina’s sixth congressional district this year, has won one of the district’s six counties with a majority of votes cast, according to unofficial results from the North Carolina State Board of Elections.

Hayes, who ran against Republican Addison McDowell in a two-way race, received 104,017 votes, capturing 30.84% of the total votes cast. His performance is particularly notable because he secured a narrow majority in one of the district’s six counties. In Guilford County, which saw the second-highest number of votes cast in the district this election cycle, Hayes earned 33,877 votes, amounting to 50.66% of the total.

In addition to his notable performance in Guilford County, Hayes was the strongest-performing Constitution Party candidate running at any level of government this year. Among the 28 candidates listed by the Constitution Party as running in this election cycle, he outperformed all others in both total votes and highest vote percentage. This group included several candidates who also ran in two-way races.

The reasons for Hayes; strong performance in Guilford County remain unclear. Independent Political Report was unable to confirm whether Hayes currently resides in the county or has lived there in the past. Hayes has a history of running for public office with both the Constitution and Libertarian parties, including a bid for the U.S. Senate in 2020 and the North Carolina state legislature in 2018 and 2012. However, official records from his 2020 Senate campaign show that Guilford County was his weakest-performing area within the six counties comprising the current sixth congressional district, where he received just 1.0% of the vote in a four-way race.

4 Comments

  1. Justice Apash December 4, 2024

    Well, looks like Kevin Hayes got 2.5 times the votes in his Congressional race than Randall Terry got nationwide. I don’t know if this speaks well of Kevin Hayes’ campaign or speaks ill of Randall Terry’s. Maybe both.

  2. Unimportant November 19, 2024

    For some strange reason brave isn’t letting me copy links and I don’t feel like looking it up again in a different browser that does, but BAN posted this story Nov 11 and Hayes commented

    Kevin Hayes on November 12, 2024 at 6:30 am said:
    I am not a resident of Guilford county. I’m excited I carried a county. I plan on running a more aggressive campaign next time.

  3. Nuña November 19, 2024

    “Independent Political Report was unable to confirm whether Hayes currently resides in the county or has lived there in the past.”

    For what it’s worth – and I’m sure you found that information already, Jordan – he seems to have lived in the neighboring counties of Duplin and Wayne while growing up. His company is located in the former, but he has (previously) worked in the latter as well. Guilford County is considerably further west (about six counties) than Duplin and Wayne however. Seems like an unnecessarily long commute to work if he’s living in Guilford, but who am I to judge – I used to commute almost that far back in the day.

    “Hayes has a history of running for public office with both the Constitution and Libertarian parties”

    That’s probably a commendation, imho.

    “In Guilford County […] Hayes earned […] 50.66% […] However, official records from his 2020 Senate campaign show that Guilford County was his weakest-performing area with […] just 1.0% of the vote in a four-way race.”

    Fascinating! I thought maybe he ran as a Libertarian in 2020, but no, so that’s can’t be the reason. I guess maybe Guilford just likes Addison McDowell (R) a lot less than Thom Tillis (R)?

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