North Carolina held a presidential primary on May 8 for the Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian Parties. The State Board of Elections web page has unofficial results, but it is not easy to link to the presidential results.

As of 11:30 p.m. eastern time, the Democratic results are: President Obama 757,195; no preference 198,903.

The Republican results are: Mitt Romney 632,978; Ron Paul 106,749; Rick Santorum 100,404; Newt Gingrich 73,691; no preference 50,174.

The Libertarian results are: Gary Johnson 1,477; Roger Gary 638; R. J. Harris 606; Lee Wrights 328; Carl Person 269; Bill Still 219; no preference 4,658.

This is the first time North Carolina has ever conducted a presidential primary for a party other than the Democratic and Republican Parties. Because the Libertarian Party has already nominated its ticket, the primary is odd. The California Libertarian Party will also be having a presidential primary, on June 5.

Here is a link to the West Virginia Secretary of State’s web page, for election returns for the May 8 primary. The only opponent of President Obama, a federal inmate named Keith Judd, has 40% as of the moment this posting is being made.

Judd is in prison in Texas. Here is an earlier story about him. He got on the West Virginia Democratic ballot by paying a filing fee of $2,500.

U.S. District Court Judge Cameron Currie of South Carolina will hold a hearing on Thursday, May 10, in a case filed to get the 180 Democratic and Republican candidates on the June 12 primary ballot. See this story. This case is likely to result in a good precedent. Judge Currie is a Clinton appointee. In 2006 she put the Working Families Party on the ballot. The state had tried to keep it off, on the grounds that it should have held local and state conventions in the spring of 2006, before the party had even got on the ballot.