Republican Brad Knott of Raleigh will call for a runoff in the GOP primary for North Carolina’s 13th Congressional District after finishing in second place with nearly 19 percent of the vote.

Fellow Republican Kelly Daughtry of Smithfield led the pack of 14 candidates with 27.38 percent, short of the 30 percent required by state law to avoid a runoff. The runoff election will be held on May 14, and the winner will face Democrat Frank Price of Raleigh for the Republican leaning seat.

The 13th Congressional District includes all of Lee, Harnett, Johnston, Franklin, Person and Caswell counties, as well as portions of Wake and Granville counties.

Other local election notes:

Republican Kenny Xu of Raleigh’s efforts were some of the most visible in Lee County, where he placed a large billboard on Hawkins Avenue coming into Sanford from the north, and also touted the endorsement of Republican Kirk Smith, the chairman of the Lee County Board of Commissioners. Xu finished sixth overall in the primary with 4.3 percent of the vote. In Lee County, he also finished sixth but performed slightly better, earning 4.99 percent or 257 votes.

Knott, a former federal prosecutor, actually had the most support Lee County, getting 1,537 votes (29.83 percent) to Daughtry’s 1,357 (26.33 percent). Daughtry is an attorney and the daughter of former North Carolina House Majority Leader Leo Daughtry.

In most of the statewide races on Tuesday’s ballot, Lee County’s results closely mirrored the overall totals.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Stein, for example, won Lee County with nearly 67 percent of the vote and won statewide with just shy of 70 percent. Likewise, Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson won Lee County with 67 percent in Lee County and was just shy of 65 percent statewide.

That pattern – Lee County’s vote largely matching the statewide vote – repeated most of the way down the ballot in both Democratic and Republican races, with a handful of exceptions. In two statewide GOP races – for lieutenant governor and state auditor – the leading candidates (Hal Weatherman and Jack Clark, respectively) failed to reach 30 percent. It’s unclear whether the runners up in those races have plans to call for a runoff.

Lee County resident Katie Eddings, who was running for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, had a fairly impressive showing in her home county, earning 1,400 votes (44.53 percent) to 1,460 (46.44 percent) for Mo Green, a former superintendent of Guilford County Schools. Green defeated Eddings statewide 65.88 percent to 24.88 percent.

Another race on the ballot with local implications was the Republican primary for District Court Judge for Lee, Harnett and Johnston counties, in which Brian Lewis defeated Michael Onufer 61.81 percent to 38.19. Lewis won Lee County with 79.08 percent.