Elaine Marshall

Offices held and sought

• Jan. 1, 2025–Jan. 1, 2029 Secretary of state of North Carolina. Source
  The department's page says she was first elected in 1996 and re-elected to an eighth term in 2024. Start is the first day of the current term (Constitution Art. III sec. 7). The term runs until the term of the official elected in November 2028 begins on Jan. 1, 2029, and continues until a successor is qualified.

Sources: N.C. Department of the Secretary of State, About the Secretary: Elaine F. Marshall (raw/sos-secretary-2026-10-20.html); Constitution of North Carolina, North Carolina General Assembly: Art. III sec. 2 (governor and lieutenant governor) and sec. 7 (secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, superintendent of public instruction, attorney general and the commissioners of agriculture, labor and insurance): four-year terms beginning the first day of January after the election and continuing until successors are elected and qualified (raw/nc-constitution-2026-10-20.html); North Carolina State Board of Elections, Nov. 5, 2024 general election results, statewide contests (election-night reporting data file; all 2,658 precincts reporting) (raw/ncsbe-2024-general-results-statewide-2026-10-20.json). State campaign accounts: North Carolina campaign money. More about North Carolina: North Carolina.