Obama's final margin in N.C.: 14,192 votes
RALEIGH (AP) — The margin of President-elect Barack Obama's victory in North Carolina is just about finalized.
Obama received 14,192 more votes than Republican nominee John McCain after the lawful provisional ballots were added to the totals. (See the vote totals here.)
The Associated Press declared Obama the winner Nov. 6 after determining there weren't enough provisional ballots to change the outcome. Obama will be the first Democrat to receive North Carolina's electoral votes since 1976.
State elections director Gary Bartlett said Thursday the results likely won't change before the State Board of Elections certifies election winners Tuesday.
Libertarian candidate Bob Barr received 25,722 votes — less than 1 percent of the total vote. Overall voter turnout was 69.5 percent, slightly higher than the recent record set in 1984.
