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1972 Gubernatorial General Election Results - North Carolina
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Data for this Contest was Contributed by on 2014-09-22
Gubernatorial
Candidate
Political
Party
Popular Vote
James E. Holshouser, Jr.
Republican
766,470
50.97%
Hargrove Bowles
Democratic
729,104
48.48%
Arlis F. Pettyjohn
American
8,211
0.55%
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Election Notes:
Statewide totals the sum of county-level data. Official source lists statewide Holshouser vote as 767,470.
Demographic Data
1980 Population:
5,880,095
Enum.
1980 Population Density:
46.6
persons/km
2
1972 Population:
5,296,085
Est.
1972 Population Density:
42.0
persons/km
2
1970 Population:
5,084,411
Enum.
1970 Population Density:
40.3
persons/km
2
Land Area (2000):
126,161
km
2
Annual Pop Growth Rate:
1.5
%
Election Data and Statistics:
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Data Sources:
Source for Popular Vote data: North Carolina Secretary of State.
North Carolina Manual 1985-1986
, North Carolina Secretary of State (https://archive.org/stream/northcarolinaman1985nort#page/1306/mode/2up) (accessed 22 Sep 2014)
Source for Population data: U.S. Census Bureau.
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