On April 30, North Carolina held a primary for the special election, U.S. House, 3rd district. The seat is vacant because Congressman Walter B. Jones died. There were primaries for all three North Carolina parties that nominate by primary: Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian.
Here are the results. The Republicans must have a runoff primary on July 9 because no one got the required 30%. Because the Republicans must have a runoff, the special general election won’t occur until September 10. If someone had got 30% in the Republican primary, then the special general election would have been July 9.
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All qualified parties nominate by primary, but North Carolina does not hold a primary if one candidate files for a party.
There is a Constitution candidate who automatically became the nominee of the party. There were no Green candidates.
North Cartolina has a optional semi-open primary. All three parties holding a primary had opened their primary to independents.
The district is solidly Republican which explains the large Republican field.
In the NC-9 primary in two weeks, there were filers from the R, D, L, and G parties, but only the Republicans had multiple filers and will be the only primary.
Newly-qualifying parties do not nominate by primary. See 163-98, “For the first general election following the date on which it qualifies under GS 163-96, a new political party shall select its nominees by party convention.” However, the Green and Constitution Parties are no longer “new”, because the November 2018 election has passed, so you are right that they nominate by primary in 2019 special elections.
134 votes cast in the LP primary when it was open to Independents and there are 3154 registered voters in the counties within the district tells me that the two campaigns did not have any kind of GOTV effort. Why have a primary, especially one open to independents, and then not take full advantage of it?
The statutes seem to suggest that a party would only qualify before a general election, and the qualification deadline is after the primary.
It is only for a general election that nominations would be by convention.
Nov 2018
NC 3
Jones R 187,901 [unopposed]
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one of the unlucky 13 packed/cracked RIGGED NC USA Rep gerrymander districts —
subject of one more gerrymander case by the usual suspect RED communist Donkeys.