First-time candidate Allison Dahle trounced Hall in a state House primary, winning about 68 percent of the vote in unofficial returns.
Hall had been seeking a fourth term.
Dahle didn't expect to win, she admitted after she saw the returns. Hall spent about twice as much as she did and was considered the favorite.
And yet she was surrounded by a small crowd applauding her at her party at Fortnight Brewery in Cary.
"I think women are tired," Dahle said in an interview shortly after her victory speech. "I think there's a lot more to the story" than just the women quoted in the media, she said.
