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Results for Northampton County’s local races echoed the primary results from earlier this year, according to the unofficial tallies from this year’s general election held on Nov. 5.

During this election cycle, Northampton had seats available for County Board of Commissioners (District 1 and 2), Register of Deeds, and Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor. Only one of these races had a challenger on Tuesday’s ballot.

In the District 1 Commissioner race, Keith Hugh Edwards (Democrat) faced off against Beth B. Phillips (Unaffiliated). He received 6,173 votes, while Phillips received 2,033.

Of Northampton’s 13 voting precincts, Edwards carried 12 of them on Election Day. His largest margins of victory were in the Garysburg/Pleasant Hill precinct (won by 292 votes) and the Conway/Milwaukee/Pendleton precinct (won by 164 votes). Phillips only received more votes than Edwards in the Lasker precinct.

But with a high early voting turnout this year, both candidates received a majority of their votes before Election Day. Phillips received 1,346 in-person early votes and 44 absentee by-mail votes, while Edwards received 4,281 early in-person and 126 absentee votes.

Edwards will assume the seat currently occupied by Board Chair Charles Tyner, who lost his reelection bid during the primary in March.

For District 2 Commissioner, Keedra Whitaker, a Democrat, was unopposed in the general election. She defeated incumbent Geneva Faulkner during the primary election earlier this year, and faced no challengers from other parties.

Whitaker, who previously served on Northampton County’s Board of Education, received a total of 6,442 votes. Of those votes, 4,424 of them were cast in-person during the early voting period.

For Register of Deeds, incumbent Robin Phillips Williams easily secured another term. Williams, a Democrat, ran unopposed. She received the most votes of any candidate in Northampton County’s local races, with a total of 6,508. Like candidates in other races, the majority of those votes were cast during the early voting period.

The Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor is a nonpartisan position. William M. Stephenson, the only candidate on the ballot, received 6,318 votes in total. There were also 129 write-in votes for this race.

Northampton County voters also cast their ballots for NC House of Representatives District 27. That district covers Northampton as well as Halifax and Warren counties. Democrat candidate Rodney D. Pierce ran unopposed in the general election, having unseated incumbent Michael Wray in a close race during the March primary.

Pierce received a total of 31,767 votes across the three-county district, with 6,318 of them cast in Northampton County.

Voter turnout in Northampton County was 69.95 percent. That is an increase from the 35 percent turnout during the primary in March, but a decrease from the 72 percent turnout during the 2020 general election, the last time there was a presidential race at the top of the ballot.

All results are unofficial until canvassed by the county board of elections.