Angus Wilton McLean Democratic Oliver Max Gardner Democratic The 1928 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1928.

This was, relatively, a close election for the time in North Carolina, with Gardner receiving the smallest percentage of the vote that any Democratic gubernatorial nominee won between 1900 and 1956.

The result came against the backdrop of divisions in the state Democratic Party over the controversial nomination of Alfred E. Smith for president.

Gardner supported Smith, who lost the state to Herbert Hoover.

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