Hillary Clinton takes 47 percent of likely voters to Donald Trump's 46 percent in the new survey. | AP Photo Poll: Clinton and Trump deadlocked in North Carolina

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump continue to run an essentially tied race in North Carolina, according to a new Monmouth University poll that shows the Democrat with a scant 1 percentage point advantage, well within the margin of error.

Clinton takes 47 percent of likely voters to Trump's 46 percent in the new survey, the latest in a series of tight poll results in the state. Four percent said they plan to vote for Libertarian Gary Johnson. Clinton and Trump continue to perform well among their typical constituencies — Trump leads among white and non-college-educated voters, while Clinton picks up heavy backing from minority voters and whites with a college degree.

Monmouth's August poll showed Clinton with a 2-point lead, though some other polls have given her more of an edge. POLITICO's Battleground States polling average has Clinton with 47 percent to Trump's 44 percent in North Carolina.

Twelve percent of likely voters in Monmouth's latest survey said they've already cast their ballot in early voting, which started last week.

The poll also had good news for Republicans running down the ballot from Trump in North Carolina, showing GOP Gov. Pat McCrory essentially tied with his Democratic challenger and Republican Sen. Richard Burr staked to a 6-point lead in his battleground race.

Burr has 49 percent of the vote to Democrat Deborah Ross' 43 percent in Monmouth's test of the Senate race. In the past month, Republicans have slammed Ross in a flurry of TV ads about her record at the American Civil Liberties Union, and her favorability has taken a hit. In August, Monmouth found 6 percent of voters had a negative view of Ross; now, just under one-third of respondents rate her unfavorably. Thirty-nine 30 percent view her positively, while 39 percent still have no opinion of her.

Burr's ratings have also taken a hit, as Democrats hammer him in TV ads accusing the incumbent of enriching himself while in office. Thirty-eight percent of voters disapprove of his performance in the Senate, an 8-point jump since August.

In the governor's race, McCrory has 48 percent of the vote to Democrat Roy Cooper's 47 percent, as the race continues to tighten. Monmouth's poll release cited McCrory's response to Hurricane Matthew as a possible reason for the uptick in the governor's job approval ratings, which stood at 49 percent, up from 45 percent in August.

The polling memo also noted that "those who are considered to be least probable" to show up on Election Day shifts the Senate and governor's races by "about 3 to 4 points toward the Democrats."

The Monmouth poll surveyed 402 likely voters by telephone from Oct. 20 to 23, with a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.