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Last updated: Oct. 6, 2024
Thousands of general elections are taking place across the United States on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include offices at the federal, state, and local levels. This is one of 50 pages in which Ballotpedia previews the elections happening in each state as part of the Daily Brew’s 50 states in 25 days series.
This page provides an overview of all elections happening in Nevada within our coverage scope on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include offices for one U.S. Senator, four U.S. Representatives, three Nevada Board of Regents members, four Nevada State Board of Education members, 10 state senators, 42 state assembly members, and three state supreme court justices. Additionally, there are seven statewide ballot measures on the ballot in Nevada. On this page, you will also find information regarding:
- How to vote in Nevada
- The elected offices that Iowa voters can expect to see on their ballots
- The races in Iowa that Ballotpedia is covering as battlegrounds
- The ballot measures that voters in Nevada will decide on
- Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot Lookup Tool
- The partisan balance of Nevada's congressional delegation and state government
- Past presidential election results in Nevada
- The competitiveness of legislative elections in Nevada
- The candidates who are on the ballot in Nevada
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Nevada
What's on the ballot?
2024 elections
- See also: Nevada elections, 2024
Nevada voters will elect one U.S. Senator and four U.S. Representatives. All five incumbents are running for re-election.
Three seats, including two open seats, on the Board of Regents are up for election. The general election for District 9 was canceled after Incumbent Carol Del Carlo won the primary outright. Four seats on the State Board of Education, including one open seat, are also up for election.
All 42 seats in the state Assembly and 10 in the state Senate are up for election. There are 11 open seats in the state Assembly and four in the state Senate.
Three seats on the state supreme court are up for nonpartisan election. Incumbents are running unopposed for all three seats.
There are eight seats across two school boards up for election in Nevada. The districts these boards represent are part of the 475 school districts included in Ballotpedia's coverage of school board elections. This includes all school districts in the 100 largest cities by population and the 200 largest school districts by student enrollment.
Municipal elections will be held in two counties and five cities across Nevada. Those municipalities are part of the 80 counties and 82 cities included in Ballotpedia's coverage of municipal elections.
Below is a list of Nevada elections covered by Ballotpedia in 2024. Click the links to learn more about each type:
| Nevada elections, 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Office | Elections? | More information |
| U.S. Senate | ✓ | Click here |
| U.S. House | ✓ | Click here |
| Congress special election | — | — |
| Governor | — | — |
| Other state executive | ✓ | Click here |
| State Senate | ✓ | Click here |
| State House | ✓ | Click here |
| Special state legislative | — | — |
| State Supreme Court | ✓ | Click here |
| Intermediate appellate courts | — | — |
| School boards | ✓ | Click here |
| Municipal government | ✓ | Click here |
| Recalls | — | — |
| Ballot measures | ✓ | Click here |
| Local ballot measures | ✓ | Click here |
Legend: ✓ election(s) / — no elections
Subject to Ballotpedia's scope
Your ballot
- See also: Sample Ballot Lookup
Noteworthy elections
As of Oct. 6, 2024, Ballotpedia has identified two elections as battleground races. Those are the races that we expect to have a meaningful effect on the balance of power in governments or to be particularly competitive or compelling.
- Nevada State Assembly elections, 2024 and Nevada State Senate elections, 2024: These chambers are two of 85 state legislative chambers with elections in 2024. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.
- Nevada's 1st Congressional District election, 2024: Incumbent Rep. Dina Titus (D) and Mark Robertson (R) are running. In 2022, Titus' margin of victory was 5.6 percentage points. As of Oct. 6, 2024, four major forecasters have rated the general election Likely Democratic.
- Nevada's 3rd Congressional District election, 2024: Incumbent Rep. Susie Lee (D) and Drew Johnson (R) are running. In 2022, Lee's margin of victory was four percentage points. As of Oct. 6, 2024, four major forecasters differed in their ratings for the general election, with one rating it Lean Democratic and three rating it Likely Democratic.
- United States Senate election in Nevada, 2024: Incumbent Sen. Jacky Rosen (D) and Sam Brown (R) are running. In 2018, Rosen's margin of victory was 4.9 percentage points. As of Oct. 6, 2024, four major forecasters differed in their ratings for the general election, with one rating it Likely Democratic, one rating it Tilt Democratic, and two rating it Lean Democratic.
Ballot measures
- See also: Nevada 2024 ballot measures
There are seven statewide ballot measures on the ballot in Nevada.
| Type | Title | Description | Result | Yes Votes | No Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Question 1 | Removes the constitutional status of the Board of Regents, which oversees state universities, allowing the legislature to change the governing structure of these universities through statute |
|
615,415 (45%) |
738,901 (55%) |
|
| Question 2 | Revise language in the state constitution related to public entities that benefit individuals with mental illness, blindness, or deafness |
|
897,821 (66%) |
463,218 (34%) |
|
| Question 3 | Establish top-five primaries and ranked-choice voting (RCV) for federal and state offices in Nevada |
|
664,011 (47%) |
747,719 (53%) |
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| Question 4 | Repeal language from the Nevada Constitution that allows the use of slavery and involuntary servitude as criminal punishments |
|
835,627 (61%) |
543,236 (39%) |
|
| Question 5 | Amend the Sales and Use Tax of 1955 to provide a sales tax exemption for child and adult diapers |
|
942,828 (68%) |
433,583 (32%) |
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| Question 6 | Provide for a state constitutional right to abortion before fetal viability |
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905,170 (64%) |
501,232 (36%) |
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| Question 7 | Require voters to present photo identification when voting in person or to provide the last four digits of their driver’s license or Social Security number when voting by mail |
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1,031,153 (73%) |
376,873 (27%) |
There were 131 ballot measures on the ballot in Nevada from 1985 to 2022. Voters approved 82 measures and defeated 49.
State analysis
Partisan balance
Democrats represent three seat in Nevada's U.S. House delegation and Republicans represent one. In the U.S. House, Republicans have a 220-212 majority with three vacancies.
Both of Iowa's U.S. Senators—Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen—are Democrats. Democrats have a majority in the U.S. Senate. There are 47 Democrats, 49 Republicans, and four independents. Three independents caucus with the Democratic Party, and one other counts towards the Democratic majority for committee purposes.
Democrats have a 26-14 majority with two vacancies in the state House and a 13-7 majority with one vacancy in the state Senate. Democrats have had a majority in both chambers since 2017.
Because the governor is a Republican, Nevada is one of 10 states with a divided government. It has held this status since 2023, when the Gov. Joe Lombardo (R) assumed office.
Nevada's attorney general and secretary of state are Democrats. This makes Iowa one of five states with a divided government.
Past presidential election results in Nevada
- See also: Presidential election in Nevada, 2024
How a state's counties vote in a presidential election and the size of those counties can provide additional insights into election outcomes at other levels of government including statewide and congressional races. Below, four categories are used to describe each county's voting pattern over the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections: Solid, Trending, Battleground, and New. Click [show] on the table below for examples:
| County-level voting pattern categories | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Democratic | D | D | D | ||||
| Trending Democratic | R | D | D | ||||
| Battleground Democratic | D | R | D | ||||
| New Democratic | R | R | D | ||||
| Republican | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Republican | R | R | R | ||||
| Trending Republican | D | R | R | ||||
| Battleground Republican | R | D | R | ||||
| New Republican | D | D | R | ||||
Following the 2020 presidential election, 88.6% of Nevadans lived in either Clark or Washoe County, the state's two Solid Democratic counties, which voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in every election from 2012 to 2020, and 11.4% lived in one of 15 Solid Republican counties. Overall, Nevada was Solid Democratic, having voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2012, Hillary Clinton (D) in 2016, and Joe Biden (D) in 2020. Use the table below to view the total number of each type of county in Nevada following the 2020 election as well as the overall percentage of the state population located in each county type.
| Nevada county-level statistics, 2020 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solid Democratic | 2 | 88.6% | |||||
| Solid Republican | 15 | 11.4% | |||||
| Total voted Democratic | 2 | 88.6% | |||||
| Total voted Republican | 15 | 11.4% | |||||
State legislative competitiveness
Nevada had a Competitiveness Index of 42.4, ranking it 10th of the 44 states that held elections.
- 15 of the 52 seats up for election were open (29%).
- Eight of the 37 incumbents who ran for re-election faced contested primaries (22%).
- 40 of the 52 seats up for election were contested by both major parties (77%).
2010-2024
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| State Legislative Competitiveness Index in Nevada, 2010-2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | Rank | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | 50.9% | 19.2% | 92.5% | 54.2 | 2 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | 30.8% | 33.3% | 76.9% | 47.0 | 6 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | 18.9% | 30.2% | 60.4% | 36.5 | 11 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | 21.2% | 41.5% | 75.0% | 45.9 | 4 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 28.3% | 21.1% | 67.9% | 39.1 | 18 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | 25.0% | 17.9% | 65.4% | 36.1 | 15 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 35.8% | 38.2% | 83.0% | 52.3 | 3 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 28.8% | 21.6% | 76.9% | 42.4 | 10 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
In 2024
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| State Legislative Competitiveness Index in Nevada, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chamber | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | ||||||||||||||||||||
| House | 26.2% | 16.1% | 76.2% | 39.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Senate | 40.0% | 50.0% | 80.0% | 56.7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 28.8% | 21.6% | 76.9% | 42.4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
List of candidates
See also
Footnotes
