Six months from Election Day, independence rules registrations

(The Center Square) – Independent voter registrations grew nearly exactly as did the overall total for the most recent seven days reported in North Carolina.

Democrats grew by eight, Republicans one, and the unaffiliated bloc 5,548 of the 5,604 total. Posted on Saturday – 178 sleeps from Election Day – by the State Board of Elections, the trends are emblematic of the last month as analyzed by The Center Square.

Unaffiliated party registrations are 39.6% of the state’s 7,763,333 total at 3,072,684. Republicans (30%) have 2,325,256; Democrats (29.8%) have 2,314,501; Libertarians (0.6%) have 46,315; and the Green Party (0.06%) has 4,577.

In the past five weeks, the total registrations has gone up 28,002. The shares are a 27,984 increase for unaffiliated registrations, 339 increase for Republicans and a loss of 425 for Democrats.

More women (3.8 million) than men (3.2 million) make up the electorate. Whites (4.9 ...