Johnston County resident and state Senator Fred Smith came up short in his bid for the Republican nomination for governor, despite winning decisively in Wake County.

Obama won the Democratic battle for the presidential nomination over Hillary Clinton by 14 percentage points.

Perdue, the Lt. Governor, won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination over State Treasurer Richard Moore, 56 percent to 40 percent.

And Smith conceded his race to Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory who won by a 47-37 percent margin.

Voters in Eastern Wake County mirrored many of those returns, with the notable exception of the Republican governor’s race, where Smith came home with a comfortable victory.

Smith outdueled McCrory 1,028 to 639 among voters in 11 eastern Wake County precincts.

Smith won in Zebulon, Wendell and Knightdale. He has business ties in Wake County, including a stint as part of an ownership group that operated a grain elevator in Zebulon in the 1970s.

Eastern Wake residents were much more in line with fellow voters across the state in other races.

At the top of the ticket Obama defeated Clinton 4,493 to 2,865.

Perdue bested Moore 4,177 to 2897.

State senator Kay Hagan overwhelmed Jim Neal for the Democratic nomination in the race for U.S. Senate. Hagan collected 4,765 votes among eastern Wake County voters, compared to just 655 votes for Neal.

Statewide, Hagan won 60.5 percent of the vote to just 17.9 percent of ballots cast for Neal.