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Republican Incumbent Michael Lee Wins North Carolina Senate District 9

Michael Lee (R)

After a fiercely competitive race with numerous attack ads against both candidates, Republican incumbent Michael Lee has won North Carolina’s District 9 Senate seat.  This district covers most of New Hanover County, with the exception of a small patch in downtown Wilmington.  In his second term, he wants to tackle economic development and education. 

Michael Lee says education dovetails with job creation because of workforce development.  He wants to reach out to innovative teachers for new ideas that can be implemented throughout the state.  In particular, he wants to expand lab schools, which are elementary and secondary schools operated within a university or college.  Such schools both help train future teachers and allow for educational experimentation:

"So we’ve already tried to do some of those things with lab schools, like we’re doing with UNCW and others. I think we can also look into lab school concepts within the community college system. I really think that we need to integrate, and not just have a K-12, community college, and university system, but have a true education system with all the constituent institutions."

Michael Lee beat out first-time Democratic candidate, Andrew Barnhill.