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> In North Carolina, where voter turnout was also poor (35%), Attorney General Robert Morgan, 48, won with 50.49% of the Democratic Senate primary vote, enough to avoid a runoff in his bid for the seat of Senator Sam Ervin, who is retiring. A 24-year veteran of state and local Democratic politics, Morgan calls himself a "people's advocate"; he created a consumer-protection bureau within the attorney general's office. He will face Republican State Representative William E. Stevens, 52, executive vice president of Broyhill Furniture Industries, in November. Stevens won 65% of the vote in the G.O.P. primary and has the backing of Republican Governor James E. Holshouser Jr., but Morgan is expected to win.