North Carolina Amendment 1

==Results==
{{Referendum
| title = Amendment 1<ref name="clarityelections">{{cite web|url=http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/36596/85942/en/summary.html|website=results.enr.clarityelections.com|title=North Carolina Board of Elections|access-date=February 24, 2021}}</ref>
| yes = 1,317,178
| yespct = 61.04
| no = 840,802
| nopct = 38.96
| valid = 
| validpct = 
| invalid = 
| invalidpct = 
| total = 2,157,980
| turnoutpct = 34.66
| electorate = 6,296,759
}}

On May 8, 2012, at 9:00 pm ET the polls closed. At 9:11 pm ET, with 30 percent of the precincts reporting, 43 percent of the vote against and 57 percent of voters approve of the Amendment 1. At 9:15 pm ET, the [[Associated Press]] projected, with 35 percent of the vote counted and 58 percent of those casting ballots voted in favor of the amendment, that Amendment 1 had passed.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2012/05/08/152297983/gay-marriage-referendum-drives-high-turnout-in-north-carolina Gay Marriage Ban Passes In North Carolina]</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/AP/status/200031180089868290 North Carolina Amendment 1]</ref>

Of the [[List of counties in North Carolina|100 counties of North Carolina]], only [[Buncombe County, North Carolina|Buncombe]] (home to [[Asheville]]), [[Orange County, North Carolina|Orange]] (home to [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina|Chapel Hill]]), [[Durham County, North Carolina|Durham]] (home to the city of [[Durham, North Carolina|Durham]]), [[Wake County, North Carolina|Wake]] (home to [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]]), [[Mecklenburg County, North Carolina|Mecklenburg]] (home to [[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte]]), [[Chatham County, North Carolina|Chatham]], [[Watauga County, North Carolina|Watauga]] (home to [[Boone, North Carolina|Boone]] and [[Appalachian State University]]), and [[Dare County, North Carolina|Dare]] voted against Amendment 1. Of the eight counties that voted against Amendment 1, six of them would vote for Barack Obama in the [[2012 United States presidential election|2012 election]], while Watauga County and Dare County voted for Mitt Romney.