As I recall, Valentine’s NC-02 had Raleigh’s black precincts in 1992, but when the NC-12 (which meandered from black parts of Gastonia to black parts of Durham) was declared unconstitutional, Valentine’s NC-02 was given black parts of Durham and had the Raleigh precincts taken out. But was that in 1994 or 1996?
Utah returns very early
http://electionresults.utah.gov/xmlData/300010.html
Mike Lee has a narrow lead.
Precincts
Reporting Out of 2136 18.26% 390
Mike Lee (Rep)—51.77% 25,229
Tim Bridgewater (Rep)— 48.23% 23,505
The lines Tim Valentine ran under were the same that Republican winner Dave Funderburk ran under in ‘94 (Valentine didn’t run again in ‘94). What gave Valentine problems from 1982-92 was that he had all of Durham and had to face strong Black Dem challengers (such as Mickey Michaux) from that area in the primary (in fact, in 1982 when the seat was open, Michaux led Valentine 45-33%, losing when it went to a runoff). But he didn’t have Raleigh, however.
As an aside, Tim Valentine’s son Phil became a popular Conservative GOP talk radio personality in Nashville (TN).