From Staff Reports

With all precincts reporting statewide, here are the results — excluding the sheriff’s race featured in the adjoining story — in the general election on Nov. 6 in races affecting the Buncombe County (asterisks denote winner):

10th District U.S. House:

*Patrick McHenry (R) - 59%

David Wilson Brown (D) - 41%

11th District U.S. House

*Mark Meadows (R) - 59%

Phillip Price (D) - 39%

Clifton Ingram Jr. (L) - 2%

N.C. Senate 48th District

*Chuck Edwards (R) - 56%

Norm Bossert (D) - 44%

N.C. Senate  49th District

*Terry Van Duyn (D) - 64%

Mark Crawford (R) - 34%

Lyndon John Smith (L) - 2%

N.C. House House 114

*Susan Fisher (D) - 82%

Kris Lindstam (R) - 18%

N.C.  House 115

*John Ager (D) - 58%

Amy Evans (R) - 42%

N.C. House 116 

*Brian Turner (D) - 55%

Marilyn Brown (R) - 45%

N.C. House 117 

*Chuck McGrady (R) - 60%

Gayle Kemp (D) - 40%

District 1 seat, Buncombe commissioners

*Al Whitesides (D) - 100%

District 2 seat, Buncombe commissioners

*Amanda Edwards (D) - 55.21%

 Glenda Weinert (R) - 44.79% 

District 3 seat, Buncombe commissioners

*Robert Pressley (R) - 50.95%

 Donna Ensley (D) - 49.05%

Four constitutional amendments passed

• To protect the right to hunt and fish - 57% For

• To strengthen the rights of crime victims - 62% For

• To lower the maximum income tax rate from 10 percent to 7 percent - 57% For

• To require a photo ID to vote - 56% For

Two constitutional  amendments did not pass 

• To move some power to fill judicial vacancies from the governor to the legislature - 67% Against

• To move some power to choose officials in charge of elections from the governor to the legislature - 62% Against