North Carolina Republican Party

Republican Party of North Carolina
Chairman	Robin Hayes
Ideology	Conservatism Fiscal Conservatism Social conservatism
National affiliation	Republican Party
Official colors	Red (unofficial)
Politics of the United States Political parties Elections

The North Carolina Republican Party is the affiliate of the Republican Party in North Carolina. Robin Hayes was elected Chairman of the party on January 15, 2011, to serve the five months left in the unexpired term of Tom Fetzer.^[1]

The elections of 2010 led to Republican control of both houses of the North Carolina General Assembly for the first time since 1896.^[2]

Current elected officials

The North Carolina Republican Party controls two of the ten statewide offices and holds a majority in both the North Carolina House of Representatives and the North Carolina Senate. Republicans also hold one of the state's U.S. Senate seats and 6 of the state's 13 U.S. House seats

Members of Congress

U.S. Senate

• Richard Burr

U.S. House of Representatives

• Renee Ellmers, 2nd district
• Walter B. Jones, Jr., 3rd district
• Virginia Foxx, 5th district
• Howard Coble, 6th district
• Sue Wilkins Myrick, 9th district
• Patrick T. McHenry, 10th district

Statewide offices

• Commissioner of Agriculture: Steve Troxler
• Commissioner of Labor: Cherie Berry

State Legislature

• President Pro Tem of the Senate: Phil Berger
  • Senate Majority Leader: Harry Brown
• Speaker of the House: Thom Tillis
  • House Majority Leader: Paul Stam

References

1. ^ http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13850189
2. ^ http://www.wect.com/Global/story.asp?S=13434773

External links

• North Carolina Republican Party
• NC Republican Senate Caucus Website
• NC Federation of Republican Men
• NC Federation of Republican Women
• NC Federation of Young Republicans, Inc. DBA North Carolina Federation of Young Professional Republicans
• NC Teenage Republicans
• Henderson County Republican Party
• All County Parties
• Oral History Interview with Jack Hawke (chair from 1987-1995) from Oral Histories of the American South