to 40% if you round everybody up. you see where the blue is, it s blue where it should be blue if the democrats are going to be competitive. that is wake county, the second largest county in the state. you see right here 68% to 30%. 54% of the vote in. african american population, college-educated population. the number one county is here. mecklenburg, that s almost 11% of the state population. 69/29. can t round that up just yet. joe biden won this county by 35 points. she s winning it by 39 points. almost 40 points. it is 40 points. but, again, it s 50% here. and i suspect we re looking at the early vote as well. if i m wrong, david will jump in. again, this is going to be a competitive race. this will be a competitive race, but we re at 33%. you come to some of these rural counties, i m going to move up here to the virginia border. 31 in terms of vote count.
but some early signs that, perhaps, as expected, herschel walker s underperforming, brian kemp the gubernatorial candidate there. we still expect this area isto tighten considerably only 13% of the vote in here. let s go now to florida where marco rubio has taken the lead probably as many of you expected. he is sitting now at 54% to val demings s 45%. we ve got 45% of the vote in there. but we re obviously going to keep watching it through the night. let s go to new hampshire where we are just starting to get votes into the state, which swings so often with a wave when we see one. maggie hassan out to a relatively early lead. there s only a few thousand votes in here. but she s sitting at 59.2% to don bolduc s 39.6%. this is one where republicans started to take more interest. hassan s team has been feeling good throughout the night so far. we ve got 1% of the vote in, in new hampshire, jake. that s only 1%.
supervisor how many of those registered voters perhaps voted early. she said she didn t have that information. but we d find in just a matter of how manies. there s 2,600 polling locations across the state of georgia. six of them have been ordered by the courts to stay open past that 7:00 p.m. deadline. two of them in cobb county. another two in dekalb county. secretary of state s office also making some news earlier at a press conference saying that we should get results earlier than expected, crediting a reform senate voting bill that gave more clarity to county elections officials as to when they could start counting. thank you so much. and the first actual votes are coming in from georgia. they are highly contested. what are you seeing? we are finally starting to get some votes in this race that we have been talking about literally for months. raphael warnock out to an early lead, 75% of the vote. he s ahead by about 15,000 votes of herschel walker right now who s coming in at
through the evening. we have about 46% of the vote in in north carolina right now. now let s check in on ohio where the democratic congressman tim ryan is out to an early lead at 58.1% to the republican j.d. vance s 41.8%. we have to ask where those votes are coming from. we have about 20% of the vote in in ohio right now. let s check on new hampshire. maggie hassan is at 64.1% to the republican don bolduc s 35.4%. she is about 13,000 votes ahead. that tells you where we are in the vote count. we are not very far in. we are at 8%. but you d rather be maggie hassan at this hour than don bolduc. all right. thanks so much. john king, getting us up to speed on the senate right now. we have races, we have votes coming in in at least three competitive races, new hampshire and georgia and perhaps north carolina. so georgia and new hampshire