Candidate filing in North Carolina begins Monday for the 2012 Election. Wake County voters this year will help elect a president, a new governor and other offices, down to three county commissioner seats and one Soil and Water Conservation District representative.<\/p>\n
Feb. 13 \u2013 Candidate filing begins<\/p>\n Feb. 29 \u2013 Filing period closes<\/p>\n May 8 \u2013 Primary Election<\/p>\n Nov. 6 \u2013 General Election<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/right><\/p>\n The primary election is May 8, and with a close race for the Republican presidential primary, North Carolina voters may get to play a role in deciding who will challenge Barack Obama in the November General Election.<\/p>\n Voters across the state will choose nominees in May for governor, lieutenant governor, the state agency heads such as the treasurer and auditor and a host of state legislature seats.<\/p>\n Also up for a vote in May will be the state constitutional amendment to define marriage as between a man and a woman.<\/p>\n Three seats on the House of Representatives that include Wake County will be up for election: District 2, currently represented by Republican Renee Elmers, District 4, represented by Democrat David Price, and District 13, where incumbent Democrat Brad Miller will be retiring at the end of this term.<\/p>\n Many elected leaders in Wake County have already thrown their hats in the ring for higher office. Wake County Commission Chair Paul Coble has said he plans to run for District 13 on the House of Representatives. Commission member Tony Gurley has declared his intention to run for lieutenant governor. And the Wake School Board\u2019s John Tedesco plans to run for state superintendent.<\/p>\n Full List of Seats Up for Election<\/strong><\/p>\n Wake County<\/strong> State<\/strong> Federal<\/strong> Candidates for three House of Representatives seats, three Wake County Commissioner districts and many others can start filing for election Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24002,"featured_media":4815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[446,15,23],"tags":[447,189,449,448],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nSuperior Court Judge (3 seats)
\nDistrict Court Judge (11 seats)
\nWake County Commission District 4
\nWake County Commission District 5
\nWake County Commission District 6
\nRegister of Deeds
\nSoil and Water Conservation District<\/p>\n
\nGovernor
\nLt. Governor
\nAttorney General
\nAuditor
\nCommissioner of Agriculture
\nCommissioner of Labor
\nCommissioner of Insurance
\nSuperintendent of Public Instruction
\nTreasurer
\nState Senate District 14
\nState Senate District 15
\nState Senate District 16
\nState Senate District 17
\nState Senate District 18
\nState House District 11
\nState House District 33
\nState House District 34
\nState House District 35
\nState House District 36
\nState House District 37
\nState House District 38
\nState House District 39
\nState House District 40
\nState House District 41
\nState House District 49
\nSupreme Court Associate Justice
\nCourt of Appeals (3 seats)<\/p>\n
\nPresident
\nHouse District 2
\nHouse District 4
\nHouse District 13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"