United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada, 2018
- General election: Nov. 6
- Voter registration deadline: Oct. 9 (mail), Oct. 16 (in-person), or Oct. 18 (online)
- Early voting: Oct. 20 - Nov. 2
- Absentee voting deadline: Nov. 6
- Online registration: Yes
- Same-day registration: No
- Voter ID: No
- Poll times: 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
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The 2018 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Nevada took place on November 6, 2018. Voters elected four candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's four congressional districts.
Partisan breakdown
Heading into the November 6 election, the Democratic Party held three of the four congressional seats from Nevada.
| Members of the U.S. House from Nevada -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2018 | After the 2018 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 3 | 3 | |
| Republican Party | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 4 | 4 | |
Incumbents
Heading into the 2018 election, the incumbents for the four congressional districts were:
| Name | Party | District |
|---|---|---|
| Dina Titus |  Democratic |
1 |
| Mark Amodei |  Republican |
2 |
| Jacky Rosen | Democratic |
3 |
| Ruben Kihuen | Democratic |
4 |
Candidates
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District 1
General election
General election candidates
- Dina Titus (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Joyce Bentley (Republican Party)
- Daniel Garfield (Independent American Party)
- Robert Van Strawder (Libertarian Party)
Primary candidates
Democratic primary candidates
- Dina Titus (Incumbent) ✔
- Reuben D'Silva
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
Independent American
Libertarian
District 2
General election
General election candidates
- Mark Amodei (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Clint Koble (Democratic Party)
Primary candidates
Democratic primary candidates
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Republican primary candidates
- Mark Amodei (Incumbent) ✔
- Sharron Angle
- Joel Beck
- Ian Luetkehans
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District 3
General election
General election candidates
- Susie Lee (Democratic Party) ✔
- Danny Tarkanian (Republican Party)
- Harry Vickers (Independent American Party)
- Steven Brown (Libertarian Party)
- Gilbert Eisner (Independent)
- David Goossen (Independent)
- Tony Gumina (Independent)
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Primary candidates
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District 4
General election
General election candidates
- Steven Horsford (Democratic Party) ✔
- Cresent Hardy (Republican Party)
- Warren Markowitz (Independent American Party)
- Gregg Luckner (Libertarian Party)
- Dean McGonigle (Independent)
- Rodney Smith (Independent)
Primary candidates
Democratic primary candidates
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Republican primary candidates
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Independent American
Libertarian
Independents
Withdrew
Wave election analysis
- See also: Wave elections (1918-2016)
The term wave election is frequently used to describe an election cycle in which one party makes significant electoral gains. How many seats would Republicans have had to lose for the 2018 midterm election to be considered a wave election?
Ballotpedia examined the results of the 50 election cycles that occurred between 1918 and 2016—spanning from President Woodrow Wilson's (D) second midterm in 1918 to Donald Trump's (R) first presidential election in 2016. We define wave elections as the 20 percent of elections in that period resulting in the greatest seat swings against the president's party.
Applying this definition to U.S. House elections, we found that Republicans needed to lose 48 seats for 2018 to qualify as a wave election.
The chart below shows the number of seats the president's party lost in the 11 U.S. House waves from 1918 to 2016. Click here to read the full report.
| U.S. House wave elections | ||||||
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| Year | President | Party | Election type | House seats change | House majority[4] | |
| 1932 | Hoover | R | Presidential | -97 | D | |
| 1922 | Harding | R | First midterm | -76 | R | |
| 1938 | Roosevelt | D | Second midterm | -70 | D | |
| 2010 | Obama | D | First midterm | -63 | R (flipped) | |
| 1920 | Wilson | D | Presidential | -59 | R | |
| 1946 | Truman | D | First midterm | -54 | R (flipped) | |
| 1994 | Clinton | D | First midterm | -54 | R (flipped) | |
| 1930 | Hoover | R | First midterm | -53 | D (flipped) | |
| 1942 | Roosevelt | D | Third midterm | -50 | D | |
| 1966 | Johnson | D | First midterm[5] | -48 | D | |
| 1974 | Ford | R | Second midterm[6] | -48 | D | |
See also
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2018
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2018
- U.S. House primaries, 2018
Footnotes
- ↑ Dean McGonigle for Congress, "Who is Dean?" accessed October 30, 2017
- ↑ Email submission to Ballotpedia, received on March 13, 2018
- ↑ Hurt did not appear on the candidate list following the filing deadline on March 16.
- ↑ Denotes the party that had more seats in the U.S. House following the election.
- ↑ Lyndon Johnson's (D) first term began in November 1963 after the death of President John F. Kennedy (D), who was first elected in 1960. Before Johnson had his first midterm in 1966, he was re-elected president in 1964.
- ↑ Gerald Ford's (R) first term began in August 1974 following the resignation of President Richard Nixon (R), who was first elected in 1968 and was re-elected in 1972. Because Ford only served for two full months before facing the electorate, this election is classified as Nixon's second midterm.
