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Representative
Edgar Starnes
Representative Edgar Starnes
Majority Leader of the North Carolina House of Representatives
	In office; January 1, 2013 – January 1, 2015
Leader	Thom Tillis
Preceded by	Paul Stam
Succeeded by	Mike Hager
Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives
	In office; January 1, 1997 – January 13, 2015
Preceded by	George Robinson
Succeeded by	George Robinson
Constituency	91st District (1997-2003) ; 87th District (2003-2015)
	In office; January 1, 1987 – January 1, 1989
Preceded by	George Robinson
Succeeded by	George Robinson ; David Flaherty
Constituency	46th District
Personal details
Born	Edgar Vance Starnes; September 3, 1956 (age 68); Granite Falls, North Carolina, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Residence(s)	Granite Falls, North Carolina, U.S.
Occupation	Self Employed Real Estate Investor
	Edgar Starnes Campaign WebsiteProject Vote Smart Biography

Edgar Vance Starnes is a North Carolina politician and an investor in real estate. He served as a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives for a total of approximately 20 years, from 1987 to 1988 and from 1997 through January 2015. He then resigned to become legislative liaison for North Carolina State Treasurer Janet Cowell.^[4] At the time of his resignation, Starnes represented the state's eighty-seventh House district (Caldwell County).

North Carolina House of Representatives

He was elected House Majority Leader by his colleagues in December 2012, for the legislative session beginning in January 2013.^[5] After the 2014 election, in which he was re-elected to the House without opposition, Starnes chose not to seek a second term as Majority Leader because he was already discussing the position with the State Treasurer's office.^[6]

Nullification resolution

In April 2013, Starnes and ten Republican colleagues introduced House Bill 494, a resolution in the Assembly which repudiates any federal court power in ruling on any Constitutional topic in North Carolina, a legally discredited theory known to historians of the antebellum U.S. as nullification.

"The Constitution of the United States does not grant the federal government and does not grant the federal courts the power to determine what is or is not constitutional; therefore, by virtue of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the power to determine constitutionality and the proper interpretation and proper application of the Constitution is reserved to the states and to the people," the resolution asserts, continuing, "Each state in the union is sovereign and may independently determine how that state may make laws respecting an establishment of religion".^[7]

Electoral history

2014

North Carolina House of Representatives 87th district general election, 2014^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Edgar Starnes (incumbent)	16,148	100%
Total votes			16,148	100%
	Republican hold

2012

North Carolina House of Representatives 87th district Republican primary election, 2012^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Edgar Starnes (incumbent)	8,472	70.07%
	Republican	Jordon Greene	3,619	29.93%
Total votes			12,091	100%

North Carolina House of Representatives 87th district general election, 2012^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Edgar Starnes (incumbent)	25,757	100%
Total votes			25,757	100%
	Republican hold

2010

North Carolina House of Representatives 87th district general election, 2010^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Edgar Starnes (incumbent)	14,295	100%
Total votes			14,295	100%
	Republican hold

2008

North Carolina House of Representatives 87th district general election, 2008^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Edgar Starnes (incumbent)	15,444	52.76%
	Democratic	John A. Forlines Jr.	11,487	39.24%
	Libertarian	Timothy J. "T. J." Rohr	2,342	8.00%
Total votes			29,273	100%
	Republican hold

2006

North Carolina House of Representatives 87th district general election, 2006^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Edgar Starnes (incumbent)	11,548	100%
Total votes			11,548	100%
	Republican hold

2004

North Carolina House of Representatives 87th district general election, 2004^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Edgar Starnes (incumbent)	15,519	59.84%
	Democratic	Woody Tucker	10,415	40.16%
Total votes			25,934	100%
	Republican hold

2002

North Carolina House of Representatives 87th district general election, 2002^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Edgar Starnes (incumbent)	11,813	51.48%
	Democratic	Ray Warren	11,132	48.52%
Total votes			22,945	100%
	Republican hold

2000

North Carolina House of Representatives 91st district general election, 2000^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Edgar Starnes (incumbent)	15,050	85.98%
	Libertarian	Joe Young	2,454	14.02%
Total votes			17,504	100%
	Republican hold

References

^ Hickory Daily Record
^ Project Vote Smart Biography
^ Edgar Starnes Campaign Website Archived 2012-09-07 at the Wayback Machine
^ WRAL.com
^ News & Observer: House GOP chooses leaders Archived 2013-01-30 at archive.today
^ Hickory Daily Record Archived 2015-01-18 at archive.today
^ Leslie, Laura. "Proposal would allow state religion in North Carolina" @NCCapitol, WRAL.com; April 3, 2013
^ [1] North Carolina State Board of Elections.
^ [2] North Carolina State Board of Elections.
^ [3] North Carolina State Board of Elections.
^ [4] North Carolina State Board of Elections.
^ [5] North Carolina State Board of Elections.
^ [6] North Carolina State Board of Elections.
^ [7] North Carolina State Board of Elections.
^ [8] North Carolina State Board of Elections.
^ "NC State House 091". Our Campaigns. Retrieved September 12, 2022.

External links

Edgar V. Starnes" (North Carolina General Assembly Official Site)

North Carolina House of Representatives
Preceded by George Robinson	Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from the 46th district 1987–1989 Served alongside: James Frank Hughes, Charles Franklin Buchanan	Succeeded by George Robinson David Flaherty
Preceded by George Robinson	Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from the 91st district 1997–2003	Succeeded by Rex Baker
Preceded by Donald Bonner	Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from the 87th district 2003–2015	Succeeded by George Robinson