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==Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina==
==Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina==
===2012 election===
===2012 election===
Despite not having previously held any political office, Forest ran for lieutenant governor in 2012, and won the general election over [[Democrat]] Linda Coleman by less than half of one percent of the vote.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2012/results/states/north-carolina.html North Carolina Election 2012 Results]</ref> Concurrent with Forest's election was the gubernatorial election that year, where Republican [[Pat McCrory]] won by over 10% of the votes casted.<ref>[https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=37&year=2012&off=5 2012 Gubernatorial General Election Results]</ref> It is important to note that under [[North Carolina]] law, gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial elections are separate. Forest was only the second Republican lieutenant governor in North Carolina since [[Reconstruction]]. The first GOP lieutenant governor was former U.S. Representative [[Jim Gardner (North Carolina politician|Jim Gardner]], who served from 1989 to 1993.
Despite not having previously held any political office, Forest ran for lieutenant governor in 2012, and won the general election over [[Democrat]] Linda Coleman by less than half of one percent of the vote.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2012/results/states/north-carolina.html North Carolina Election 2012 Results]</ref> Concurrent with Forest's election was the gubernatorial election that year, where Republican [[Pat McCrory]] won by over 10% of the votes casted.<ref>[https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=37&year=2012&off=5 2012 Gubernatorial General Election Results]</ref> It is important to note that under [[North Carolina]] law, gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial elections are separate. Forest was only the second Republican lieutenant governor in North Carolina since [[Reconstruction]]. The first GOP lieutenant governor was former U.S. Representative [[Jim Gardner (North Carolina politician}|Jim Gardner]], who served from 1989 to 1993.
===2016 election===
===2016 election===