Incumbent Susie Lee (D) defeated April Becker (R) in the November 8, 2022, general election for Nevada's 3rd Congressional District.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal's Gary Martin wrote, "Nevada’s Congressional District 3 is...seen by national Republicans as one of their best opportunities to flip the seat because of President Joe Biden’s low approval ratings and national economic woes. Democrats, however, are confident in their chances to hold the seat because of recent legislative victories to lower health care costs for seniors and with a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a 50-year constitutional right for women to have an abortion."^[1]

Lee, who previously worked for education organizations focused on after-school programming and dropout prevention, was first elected in 2018. Lee campaigned on bipartisanship, protecting access to abortion, and diversifying Nevada's economy.^[2] On bipartisanship, Lee said, "I think that people in Congressional District 3 are craving a pragmatic type of leader who's not afraid to roll up their sleeves to reach across the aisle and work on tough issues and deliver results."^[3] She pointed to her work alongside Republican and Democratic House members on the Problem Solvers Caucus, and her support for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, which President Joe Biden (D) signed in November 2021. Lee campaigned on protecting access to abortion, saying, "I support all women across this country having access to safe, legal abortions if they choose to have one. I respect the voters of Nevada who protected reproductive rights in our state over two decades ago."^[4]

At the time of the election, Becker was an attorney who owned and ran a law practice. Becker campaigned on education, reducing inflation, and securing the southern border by completing construction of the wall.^[5] On education, Becker said, "School choice is a common-sense approach that allows children to escape failing schools."^[6] Becker also said that funding for "bureaucrats and failed programs should immediately be reallocated directly to schools so we can pay teachers more.”^[7] Becker said government spending was the reason for elevated rates of inflation and said the solution was to "stop spending money we don’t have.”^[7] Becker said she was "a pro-life mom, with exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother."^[5] She said she would oppose a federal ban on abortion. "Given the recent Supreme Court decision returning the issue of abortion regulation to the states, I do not believe it is constitutional for abortion policy to be determined at the national level," said Becker.^[8] Becker completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey. Click here to read her answers.

Writing in 2021, The Daily Kos's David Jarman said that Nevada's 3rd Congressional District was one of five U.S. House districts that voted for the Electoral College winner in the last three presidential elections. He said, "Nevada’s 3rd, meanwhile, may be the most reliably centered district at the presidential level. Obama won it by 0.8 points in 2012, then Trump won it by 1 point in 2016, and then Biden won it by only 0.2 points last year!"^[9]

The outcome of this race affected the partisan balance of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 118th Congress. All 435 House districts were up for election.

Republicans won a 222-213 majority in the U.S. House in 2022.

Daily Kos calculated what the results of the 2020 presidential election in this district would have been following redistricting. Joe Biden (D) would have received 52.4% of the vote in this district and Donald Trump (R) would have received 45.7%.^[10]

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Candidates and election results

General election

General election for U.S. House Nevada District 3

Incumbent Susie Lee defeated April Becker in the general election for U.S. House Nevada District 3 on November 8, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Susie Lee (D)	52.0	131,086
	April Becker (R)	48.0	121,083

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 252,169
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Robert Bruce Morris (Independent)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Nevada District 3

Incumbent Susie Lee defeated Randell S. Hynes in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Nevada District 3 on June 14, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Susie Lee	89.7	37,069
	Randell S. Hynes	10.3	4,265

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 41,334
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Nevada District 3

April Becker defeated John Kovacs, Clark Bossert, Noah Malgeri, and Albert Maxwell Goldberg in the Republican primary for U.S. House Nevada District 3 on June 14, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	April Becker	64.9	28,260
	John Kovacs	11.1	4,857
	Clark Bossert	10.4	4,553
	Noah Malgeri	9.1	3,981
	Albert Maxwell Goldberg	4.4	1,920

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 43,571
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Reinier Prijten (R)
Steve Schiffman (R)

Candidate comparison

Candidate profiles

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Susie Lee

Party: Democratic Party

Incumbent: Yes

Political Office:

U.S. House Nevada District 3 (Assumed office: 2019)

Biography: Lee earned a master's degree in public management in 1990 from Carnegie Mellon University. Her professional experience including working as the founding director of After-School All-Stars, a nonprofit offering after-school programming, and serving as the president of Communities in Schools of Nevada, a dropout prevention organization.

Key Messages

The following key messages were curated by Ballotpedia staff. For more on how we identify key messages, click here.

Lee campaigned on working across the aisle, saying she has "worked relentlessly with Democrats and Republicans alike to achieve real results for Nevada families."

Lee campaigned on "standing up for reproductive rights at a time when they are under assault across the country."

Lee campaigned on workforce development, including putting more money into workforce training and raising the minimum wage, saying, "I think a fair wage is a wage where people can afford housing, can afford health care, can afford childcare."

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Sources: Susie Lee 2022 campaign website, "Meet Susie," accessed October 31, 2022; The Nevada Independent, "On the Record: Democratic House candidate Susie Lee," August 25, 2022; Susie Lee 2022 campaign website, "Meet Susie," accessed October 31, 2022; LinkedIn, "Susie Lee," accessed October 31, 2022

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Nevada District 3 in 2022.

April Becker

Party: Republican Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography: "As a working mom with young children, April put herself through college and law school at UNLV and eventually became a top-rated litigator in Las Vegas. April has always enjoyed fighting for the underdog and taking the tough cases. She was selected as a Super Lawyer Rising Star and inducted into the “100 Hours Club” by the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada for her pro-bono legal aid to those in need. Also, April proudly serves on the UNLV Libraries Advisory Board and she knows that education can help level the playing field and lift people out of poverty."

Key Messages

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Tackling Inflation

Combating Gas Prices

Honest Leadership

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Nevada District 3 in 2022.

Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey responses

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Survey responses from candidates in this race

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April Becker (R)

Tackling Inflation

Combating Gas Prices

Honest Leadership

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

April Becker (R)

I am passionate about the opportunities and the people of the Las Vegas Valley. People from all over the world move to Las Vegas to seek a better life for themselves. I will fight to make sure we have the best jobs, the best educational opportunities, and that Las Vegas is the best place to raise a family. Please visit my website, www.VoteAprilBecker.com, and you will find I've laid out my priorities and the commonsense measures I want to bring to Washington DC.

Campaign advertisements

Susie Lee

October 18, 2022

September 29, 2022

September 6, 2022

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April Becker

October 14, 2022

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Election competitiveness

Polls

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Polls are conducted with a variety of methodologies and have margins of error or credibility intervals.^[11] The Pew Research Center wrote, "A margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points at the 95% confidence level means that if we fielded the same survey 100 times, we would expect the result to be within 3 percentage points of the true population value 95 of those times."^[12] For tips on reading polls from FiveThirtyEight, click here. For tips from Pew, click here.

The links below show polls for this race aggregated by FiveThirtyEight and RealClearPolitics, where available. Click here to read about FiveThirtyEight's criteria for including polls in its aggregation.

Race ratings

See also: Race rating definitions and methods

Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:

Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.^[13]
Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.

Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.^[14]^[15]^[16]

Race ratings: Nevada's 3rd Congressional District election, 2022
Race tracker	Race ratings
	November 8, 2022	November 1, 2022	October 25, 2022	October 18, 2022
The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter	Toss-up	Toss-up	Toss-up	Toss-up
Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales	Tilt Democratic	Tilt Democratic	Tilt Democratic	Tilt Democratic
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball	Lean Republican	Toss-up	Toss-up	Toss-up
Note: Ballotpedia reviews external race ratings every week throughout the election season and posts weekly updates even if the media outlets have not revised their ratings during that week.

Election spending

Campaign finance

Name	Party	Receipts*	Disbursements**	Cash on hand	Date
Susie Lee	Democratic Party	$6,337,406	$6,328,743	$37,367	As of December 31, 2022
Randell S. Hynes	Democratic Party	$0	$0	$0	Data not available***
April Becker	Republican Party	$2,488,761	$2,448,391	$40,370	As of December 31, 2022
Clark Bossert	Republican Party	$45,310	$45,310	$0	As of September 30, 2022
Albert Maxwell Goldberg	Republican Party	$5,568	$5,565	$3	As of July 8, 2022
John Kovacs	Republican Party	$356,909	$359,060	$1,016	As of December 31, 2022
Noah Malgeri	Republican Party	$310,679	$310,679	$0	As of September 30, 2022
Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2022. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). * According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee." According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election. * Candidate either did not report any receipts or disbursements to the FEC, or Ballotpedia did not find an FEC candidate ID.

District analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

District map - A map of the district before and after redistricting.
Effect of redistricting - How districts in the state changed as a result of redistricting following the 2020 census.
Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2022 U.S. House elections in the state.
Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
Demographics - Information about the state's demographics and how they compare to the country as a whole.
State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.

District map

	2024 → ← 2020
Nevada's 3rd Congressional District
	Democratic primary; Republican primary; General election
Election details
	Filing deadline: March 18, 2022
	Primary: June 14, 2022; General: November 8, 2022
How to vote
	Poll times: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Voting in Nevada
Race ratings
	Cook Partisan Voter Index (2022): D+1; Cook Political Report: Toss-up; Inside Elections: Tilt Democratic; Sabato's Crystal Ball: Lean Republican
Ballotpedia analysis
	U.S. Senate battlegrounds; U.S. House battlegrounds; Federal and state primary competitiveness; Ballotpedia's Election Analysis Hub, 2022
See also
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Below was the map in use at the time of the election, enacted as part of the 2020 redistricting cycle, compared to the map in place before the election.

Nevada District 3
until January 2, 2023

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Nevada District 3
starting January 3, 2023

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Effect of redistricting

See also: Redistricting in Nevada after the 2020 census

The table below details the results of the 2020 presidential election in each district at the time of the 2022 election and its political predecessor district.^[17] This data was compiled by Daily Kos Elections.^[18]

2020 presidential results by Congressional district, Nevada
District	2022 district		Political predecessor district
District	Joe Biden	Donald Trump	Joe Biden	Donald Trump
Nevada's 1st	53.2%	44.7%	61.5%	36.4%
Nevada's 2nd	43.1%	54.1%	43.6%	53.6%
Nevada's 3rd	52.4%	45.7%	49.1%	48.9%
Nevada's 4th	53.0%	44.8%	50.9%	47.0%

Competitiveness

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2022

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Nevada.

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Nevada in 2022. Information below was calculated on April 6, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

In 2022, 38 candidates filed to run in Nevada’s four U.S. House districts, including 21 Republicans, 12 Democrats, and five independent or third party candidates. That’s 9.5 candidates per district, less than the 10.0 candidates per district in 2020 and 10.5 candidates per district in 2018.

This was the first candidate filing deadline under new district lines following Nevada's decennial redistricting process. Nevada was apportioned four congressional districts, the same number it had after the 2010 census. Since Democrats and Republicans filed to run in every district, none were guaranteed to one party or the other at the time of the filing deadline.

All four incumbents filed for re-election and, of that total, three drew primary challengers leaving Rep. Steven Horsford (D) as the only incumbent uncontested in a primary. In Nevada, uncontested primaries are canceled, meaning Horsford was guaranteed to advance to the general election.

With all four incumbents seeking re-election, this left no open districts. The last time Nevada had an open U.S. House district was in 2018 with two.

The 2nd district drew the most candidate filings with 14 candidates running. This included five Republicans, including incumbent Rep. Mark Amodei, seven Democrats, and two third party candidates.

Presidential elections

Partisan Voter Index

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

Heading into the 2022 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+1. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 1 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Nevada's 3rd the 201st most Democratic district nationally.^[19]

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in Nevada's 3rd based on 2022 district lines
Joe Biden	Donald Trump
52.4%	45.7%

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in Nevada, 2020

Nevada presidential election results (1900-2020)

17 Democratic wins
14 Republican wins

Year	1900	1904	1908	1912	1916	1920	1924	1928	1932	1936	1940	1944	1948	1952	1956	1960	1964	1968	1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	2020
Winning Party	D	R	D	D	D	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	R	R	D	D	D	D

Demographics

The table below details demographic data in Nevada and compares it to the broader United States as of 2019.

Demographic Data for Nevada
	Nevada	United States
Population	2,700,551	308,745,538
Land area (sq mi)	109,859	3,531,905
Race and ethnicity**
White	65.6%	72.5%
Black/African American	9.1%	12.7%
Asian	8.2%	5.5%
Native American	1.3%	0.8%
Pacific Islander	0.7%	0.2%
Other (single race)	10.3%	4.9%
Multiple	4.9%	3.3%
Hispanic/Latino	28.7%	18%
Education
High school graduation rate	86.7%	88%
College graduation rate	24.7%	32.1%
Income
Median household income	$60,365	$62,843
Persons below poverty level	13.1%	13.4%
Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2010). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2014-2019).
**Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.

State party control

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of Nevada's congressional delegation as of November 2022.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Nevada, November 2022
Party	U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
Democratic	2	3	5
Republican	0	1	1
Independent	0	0	0
Vacancies	0	0	0
Total	2	4	6

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in Nevada's top four state executive offices as of November 2022.

State executive officials in Nevada, November 2022
Office	Officeholder
Governor	Steve Sisolak
Lieutenant Governor	Lisa Cano Burkhead
Secretary of State	Barbara K. Cegavske
Attorney General	Aaron D. Ford

State legislature

The tables below highlight the partisan composition of the Nevada State Legislature as of November 2022.

Nevada State Senate

Party		As of November 2022
	Democratic Party	12
	Republican Party	9
	Vacancies	0
Total		21

Nevada State Assembly

Party		As of November 2022
	Democratic Party	25
	Republican Party	16
	Vacancies	1
Total		42

Trifecta control

As of November 2022, Nevada was a Democratic trifecta, with majorities in both chambers of the state legislature and control of the governorship. The table below displays the historical trifecta status of the state.

Nevada Party Control: 1992-2022
Five years of Democratic trifectas • Two years of Republican trifectas
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Year	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Governor	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D
Senate	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D
House	D	D	D	S	S	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D

Election context

Ballot access requirements

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Nevada in the 2022 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Nevada, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2022
State	Office	Party	Signatures required	Filing fee	Filing deadline	Source
Nevada	U.S. House	All candidates	N/A	$300.00	3/18/2022	Source