Wake County voters approved the $680 million school bond with 63.4% and the Wake Tech bond with 62.7%. Apex's Election Day precincts were closer, at 58% yes.

Wake County voters approved the $680 million school bond on Tuesday. The unofficial count is 320,989 votes for and 185,094 against, or 63.4% yes, with all 216 precincts reporting.

The separate $149.1 million bond for Wake Technical Community College also passed, with 62.7% yes. The figures come from the North Carolina State Board of Elections results site. They stay unofficial until the county board finishes its canvass.

How Apex voted on the bonds

The state also publishes a precinct-level results file. It counts Election Day votes by precinct, but early votes by the site where they were cast. So there are two ways to read Apex.

Election Day, at Apex precincts. We added up the 10 precincts that cast nearly all the votes in Apex’s 2025 Town Council election. Some of them also take in homes outside town limits.

Bond Yes No Yes share
School bond 5,944 4,305 58.0%
Wake Tech bond 5,848 4,353 57.3%

Across Wake County, Election Day voters backed the school bond with 59.1%. Apex’s precincts were about a point lower.

Early voting, at the John M. Brown Community Center. Apex’s early voting site was the busiest in the county. Its voters backed the school bond 17,531 to 10,136, or 63.4%, the same as the county as a whole. Any Wake voter could vote there, so these ballots are not all from Apex residents.

Bar chart of the share voting yes on the $680 million Wake County school bond: 63.4% of all Wake County ballots, 63.4% at the Apex early voting site, 59.1% of Wake County Election Day ballots and 58.0% at Apex precincts on Election Day.
Yes share on the school bond, unofficial results. Chart by Peak City News
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What the bond pays for in Apex

The district’s project lists put four Apex schools in line for work. None gets a new building.

  • Apex Elementary: elevator, fire alarm and parking
  • Salem Elementary: fire alarm
  • West Lake Middle: elevator
  • Lufkin Road Middle: HVAC and intercom

Every school also gets security upgrades. The details, the cost and the tax estimate are in our guide to the bond.

The three constitutional amendments

All three proposed amendments to the North Carolina Constitution passed statewide, according to the state’s unofficial results.

Amendment Statewide for Wake County for Apex precincts, Election Day, for
Require photo ID for voting 59.6% 46.8% 63.6%
Cap the income tax rate at 3.5% 61.9% 51.2% 62.4%
Limit property tax levies 60.4% 51.3% 63.7%

Wake County as a whole voted against the photo ID amendment, 53.2% to 46.8%.

Early voters at the John M. Brown Community Center voted the other way from Apex’s Election Day precincts. They rejected all three amendments:

  • photo ID: 56.7% against
  • income tax cap: 53.4% against
  • property tax limit: 51.7% against

Countywide races

  • Sheriff: Willie Rowe, a Democrat, won with 70.5% over Republican Kenny Blackwell.
  • Board of Commissioners, at large (two seats): Democrats Mona Singh, with 326,008 votes, and Christine Kushner, with 298,865, won. Republicans Kyle Stogoski and Gary Dale Hartong trailed.
  • Board of Commissioners, District 3: Cheryl F. Stallings, a Democrat, was unopposed. Seven of the 10 Apex precincts vote in District 3.
  • U.S. Senate: Democrat Roy Cooper won North Carolina with 58.7% statewide. He took 72.7% in Wake County.

Apex’s representatives

The 10 Apex precincts are split across several legislative districts. The results file shows which precincts voted in each race. All figures are for the whole district.

Office Apex precincts Winner Share
U.S. House, District 4 all 10 Valerie P. Foushee (D) 79.1%
N.C. Senate, District 17 8 of 10 Sydney Batch (D) 72.7%
N.C. Senate, District 13 03-01, 03-02 Lisa Grafstein (D) 60.8%
N.C. House, District 21 7 of 10 Ya Liu (D) 71.3%
N.C. House, District 36 20-01, 20-09 Julie von Haefen (D) 63.0%
N.C. House, District 11 20-03 Allison A. Dahle (D) 81.4%

Apex had no town race on this ballot. Town Council elections are held in odd-numbered years, as our voting page explains. Most Apex precincts also had no school board race. Precinct 20-03 voted in Board of Education District 9, won countywide by Tyler Swanson with 58.7%.

What happens next

North Carolina law sets the county canvass for the 10th day after the election, which is Friday, Nov. 13. That is when the Wake County Board of Elections is due to certify its results. The State Board of Elections completes its canvass of statewide races on Tuesday, Nov. 24, according to the Brennan Center’s guide to North Carolina certification.

In the unofficial count, the school bond leads by 135,895 votes and the Wake Tech bond by 128,177.

What it means for you

  • Property taxes: the county estimated the school bond would cost $4.10 a year for each $100,000 of property value, and the Wake Tech bond 90 cents. Your bill depends on your assessed value. Our property taxes guide shows how to look it up.
  • Your school: the district’s interactive map shows bond projects school by school. Our Apex public schools guide lists every school serving the town.
  • Chatham County: Apex residents who live in Chatham County did not vote on the Wake bonds and do not pay the Wake County property tax.
  • Next election: Apex Town Council seats are on the ballot in November 2027.