WASHINGTON (AFP) — President-elect Barack Obama was Friday declared the winner of North Carolina, three days after the US elections, making him the first Democrat to take the state since 1976, media said.
Obama's triumph over Republican John McCain in the southern state adds another 15 electoral college votes bringing his total to 364, with 270 were needed to win the election.
The results from Missouri, however, are still not declared with the two candidates running a neck-and-neck race with only a few thousand votes separating them, with McCain narrowly in the lead. Missouri has 11 electoral votes.
Independent tracking website RealClearPolitics.com said Obama had won North Carolina with just 0.5 percent more of the vote. MSNBC gave the result as 2,123,395 votes for Obama and 2,109,402 for McCain.
In 2004, President George W. Bush trumped his Democratic rival John Kerry in the state winning 56 percent of the vote.
Three senate races also remain undecided: in Minnesota where former comedian Democrat Al Franken is seeking to unseat Republican Norm Coleman, and in Alaksa where disgraced Senator Ted Stevens, convicted last week of corruption, is running to keep his seat against Democrat Mark Begich.
And in Georgia Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss is being chased hard by Democrat Jim Martin for his Senate seat.
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