New River Notes
Since 1998 - Historical and Genealogical
Resources
for the Upper New River Valley of North Carolina and Virginia
North Carolina Vote on Calling State Convention - 1861
Abstracted from the Raleigh Register, March 13, 1861
© 1998, Jeffrey C. Weaver
| County | Convention | Delegates | ||
| Yes | No | Union | Secession | |
| Alamance | 293 | 1101 | 2 | |
| Alexander | 246 | 598 | 1 | |
| Anson | 520 | 460 | 2 | |
| Ashe & Allegh. | 259 | 1013 | 1 | |
| Beaufort | 590 | 652 | 2 | |
| Bertie | 138 | 632 | 2 | |
| Bladen | 480 | 460 | 1 | |
| Brunswick | 627 | 61 | 1 | |
| Buncombe | 1219 | 389 | 1 | |
| Burke | 718 | 273 | 1 | |
| Cabarrus | 898 | 306 | 1 | |
| Caldwell | 186 | 851 | 1 | |
| Camden | 41 | 281 | 1 | |
| Carteret | 415 | 394 | 1 | |
| Caswell | 692 | 137 | 2 | |
| Catwaba | 918 | 158 | 1 | |
| Chatham | 283 | 1795 | 3 | |
| Cherokee | 149 | 901 | 1 | |
| Chowan | 204 | 222 | 1 | |
| Cleveland | 1270 | 117 | 2 | |
| Columbus | 620 | 183 | 1 | |
| Craven | 891 | 362 | 2 | |
| Cumberland | 585 | 718 | 3 | |
| Currituck | 447 | 86 | 1 | |
| Davidson | 368 | 1806 | 2 | |
| Davie | 263 | 734 | 1 | |
| Duplin | 1252 | 71 | 2 | |
| Edgecombe & Wilson | 1588 | 17 | 2 | |
| Forsyth | 286 | 1409 | 2 | |
| Franklin | 794 | 79 | 1 | |
| Gaston | 864 | 166 | 1 | |
| Gates | 367 | 141 | 1 | |
| Granville | 1056 | 743 | 3 | |
| Greene | 457 | 106 | 1 | |
| Guilford | 112 | 2771 | 3 | |
| Halifax | 1049 | 39 | 2 | |
| Harnett | 453 | 241 | 1 | |
| Haywood | 504 | 307 | 1 | |
| Henderson | 573 | 647 | 1 | |
| Hertford | 239 | 292 | 1 | |
| Hyde | 476 | 161 | 1 | |
| Iredell | 191 | 1818 | 2 | |
| Jackson | 435 | 83 | 1 | |
| Johnston | 741 | 621 | 2 | |
| Jones | 259 | 71 | 1 | |
| Lenoir | 447 | 195 | 1 | |
| Lincoln | 708 | 86 | 1 | |
| Macon | 250 | 259 | 1 | |
| Madison | 345 | 532 | 1 | |
| Martin | 662 | 22 | 1 | |
| McDowell | 638 | 217 | 1 | |
| Mecklenburg | 1448 | 252 | 2 | |
| Montgomery | 81 | 870 | 1 | |
| Moore | 135 | 1257 | 1 | |
| Nash & Wilson | 989 | 93 | 1 | |
| New Hanover | 1781 | 210 | 2 | |
| Northampton | 576 | 327 | 1 | 1 |
| Onslow | 631 | 89 | 1 | |
| Orange | 458 | 1436 | 2 | |
| Pasquotank | 159 | 426 | 1 | |
| Perquimans | 289 | 128 | 1 | |
| Person | 593 | 167 | 1 | |
| Pitt | 986 | 177 | 2 | |
| Randolph | 45 | 2466 | 2 | |
| Richmond | 383 | 251 | 1 | |
| Robeson | 490 | 871 | 1 | |
| Rockingham | 808 | 570 | 2 | |
| Rowan | 882 | 1150 | 2 | |
| Rutherford & Polk | 1332 | 431 | 2 | |
| Sampson | 972 | 530 | 2 | |
| Stanly | 85 | 763 | 1 | |
| Stokes | 204 | 896 | 1 | |
| Surry | 207 | 1136 | 1 | |
| Tyrell | 134 | 158 | 1 | |
| Union | 548 | 483 | 1 | |
| Wake | 1406 | 1246 | 3 | |
| Warren | 774 | 33 | 2 | |
| Washington | 238 | 418 | 1 | |
| Watauga | 72 | 536 | 1 | |
| Wayne | 1250 | 242 | 2 | |
| Wilkes | 51 | 1890 | 2 | |
| Yadkin | 34 | 1490 | 1 | |
| Yancey | 556 | 598 | 1 | |
| Total | 46672 | 47269 | 85 | 35 |