Kevin Child

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Kevin Child

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Prior offices

Clark County School District Board of Trustees District D

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Last election

November 5, 2024

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Kevin Child was a member of the Clark County School District Board of Trustees in Nevada, representing District D. He assumed office in 2014. He left office in 2018.

Child (Republican Party) ran for election to the Nevada State Assembly to represent District 42. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Biography

As of 2014, Child was a real estate agent working in the Las Vegas area. He was also a chaplain and worked with at-risk youth at the Clark County Juvenile Detention Center. As of 2014, Child served as the chair of the Southern Nevada Anti-Graffiti Coalition.

Elections

2024

See also: Nevada State Assembly elections, 2024

General election

General election for Nevada State Assembly District 42

Incumbent Tracy Brown-May defeated Kevin Child in the general election for Nevada State Assembly District 42 on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Tracy Brown-May (D)	55.4	16,222
	Submit photo	Kevin Child (R)	44.6	13,036

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 29,258
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Nevada State Assembly District 42

Incumbent Tracy Brown-May defeated Sayed Zaidi in the Democratic primary for Nevada State Assembly District 42 on June 11, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Tracy Brown-May	87.7	2,475
	Submit photo	Sayed Zaidi	12.3	347

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 2,822
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Nevada State Assembly District 42

Kevin Child defeated Katrin Ivanoff in the Republican primary for Nevada State Assembly District 42 on June 11, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Kevin Child	57.8	1,106
		Katrin Ivanoff	42.2	806

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,912
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Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Child in this election.

Pledges

Child signed the following pledges.

• U.S. Term Limits

2022

See also: Municipal elections in Clark County, Nevada (2022)

General election

General election for Clark County Treasurer

J. Ken Diaz defeated Mitchell T. Tracy in the general election for Clark County Treasurer on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	J. Ken Diaz (D)	52.3	347,334
		Mitchell T. Tracy (R)	47.7	317,180

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 664,514
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Clark County Treasurer

J. Ken Diaz defeated Jaeden Cain, Ken O'Sullivan, and Gary Hosea in the Democratic primary for Clark County Treasurer on June 14, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	J. Ken Diaz	51.5	55,725
	Submit photo	Jaeden Cain	19.9	21,508
	Submit photo	Ken O'Sullivan	19.6	21,167
	Submit photo	Gary Hosea	9.1	9,800

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 108,200
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Clark County Treasurer

Mitchell T. Tracy defeated Kevin Child, Mary Marshall-Lang, and Reuel Decastro in the Republican primary for Clark County Treasurer on June 14, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Mitchell T. Tracy	36.6	38,776
	Submit photo	Kevin Child	28.5	30,145
	Submit photo	Mary Marshall-Lang	19.0	20,074
	Submit photo	Reuel Decastro	15.9	16,852

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 105,847
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2020

See also: Nevada State Board of Regents election, 2020

General election

General election for Nevada Board of Regents District 5

Patrick Boylan defeated Nick Spirtos in the general election for Nevada Board of Regents District 5 on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Patrick Boylan (Nonpartisan)	50.1	18,343
	Submit photo	Nick Spirtos (Nonpartisan)	49.9	18,265

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 36,608
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Nevada Board of Regents District 5

Patrick Boylan and Nick Spirtos defeated Kevin Child in the primary for Nevada Board of Regents District 5 on June 9, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Patrick Boylan (Nonpartisan)	37.6	4,507
✔	Submit photo	Nick Spirtos (Nonpartisan)	33.3	3,989
	Submit photo	Kevin Child (Nonpartisan)	29.1	3,490

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 11,986
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Sam Lieberman (Nonpartisan)

2018

See also: Clark County School District elections (2018)

General election

General election for Clark County School District Board of Trustees District D

Irene Cepeda defeated incumbent Kevin Child in the general election for Clark County School District Board of Trustees District D on November 6, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Irene Cepeda (Nonpartisan)	69.0	28,207
	Submit photo	Kevin Child (Nonpartisan)	31.0	12,662

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 40,869
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Clark County School District Board of Trustees District D

Irene Cepeda and incumbent Kevin Child defeated Eli Thompson and Leobardo Martinez Jr. in the primary for Clark County School District Board of Trustees District D on June 12, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Irene Cepeda (Nonpartisan)	47.1	5,687
✔	Submit photo	Kevin Child (Nonpartisan)	23.6	2,850
		Eli Thompson (Nonpartisan)	15.2	1,836
	Submit photo	Leobardo Martinez Jr. (Nonpartisan)	14.2	1,714

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified.	Total votes: 12,087
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Funding

Child had reported $2,997.24 in contributions and $3,005.33 in expenditures to the Nevada Secretary of State, leaving his campaign with $8.09 in debt as of June 5, 2014.

Endorsements

Child had not received any official endorsements as of April 23, 2014.

2012

See also: Nevada State Assembly elections, 2012

Child ran in the 2012 election for Nevada State Assembly, District 42. Child was defeated by incumbent Irene Bustamante Adams in the June 12 primary election. The general election took place on November 6, 2012.

Nevada State Assembly, District 42 Democratic Primary, 2012

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Irene Bustamante Adams Incumbent	78%	1,073
Kevin L. Child	22%	303
Total Votes		1,376

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Kevin Child did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.

2022

Kevin Child did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

2020

Kevin Child did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

2014

Child was interviewed about his candidacy by TalkToCCSD.com. The audio of that interview can be heard here.

Veterans In Politics, "VIPI 2014 Endorsement Interviews Trustee Clark County School District D," April 12, 2014

Campaign finance summary

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Kevin Child campaign contribution history

Year	Office	Status	Contributions	Expenditures
2024*	Nevada State Assembly District 42	Lost general	$0	$0
Grand total			$0	$0
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete

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Current members of the Nevada State Assembly

Leadership

Speaker of the House:Steve Yeager

Majority Leader:Sandra Jauregui

Minority Leader:Gregory Hafen

Representatives

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Daniele Monroe-Moreno (D)

District 2

Heidi Kasama (R)

District 3

Selena Torres (D)

District 4

Lisa Cole (R)

District 5

Brittney Miller (D)

District 6

Jovan Jackson (D)

District 7

Tanya Flanagan (D)

District 8

Duy Nguyen (D)

District 9

Steve Yeager (D)

District 10

Venise Karris (D)

District 11

Cinthia Moore (D)

District 12

Max Carter (D)

District 13

Brian Hibbetts (R)

District 14

Erica Mosca (D)

District 15

Howard Watts (D)

District 16

Cecelia González (D)

District 17

Linda Hunt (D)

District 18

Venicia Considine (D)

District 19

Thaddeus Yurek (R)

District 20

David Orentlicher (D)

District 21

Elaine Marzola (D)

District 22

Melissa Hardy (R)

District 23

Danielle Gallant (R)

District 24

Erica Roth (D)

District 25

Selena La Rue Hatch (D)

District 26

Rich DeLong (R)

District 27

Heather Goulding (D)

District 28

Reuben D'Silva (D)

District 29

Joe Dalia (D)

District 30

Natha Anderson (D)

District 31

Jill Dickman (R)

District 32

Alexis Hansen (R)

District 33

Bert Gurr (R)

District 34

Hanadi Nadeem (D)

District 35

Rebecca Edgeworth (R)

District 36

Gregory Hafen (R)

District 37

Shea Backus (D)

District 38

Gregory Koenig (R)

District 39

Ken Gray (R)

District 40

Philip O'Neill (R)

District 41

Sandra Jauregui (D)

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Tracy Brown-May (D)

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