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Carlo Poliak
Carlo Poliak (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Nevada. He lost in the Republican primary on June 14, 2022.
Poliak was a 2016 Republican candidate who sought election to the U.S. Senate from Nevada. Poliak was defeated by Joe Heck in the Republican primary.[1]
Poliak was a 2014 Republican candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 4th Congressional District of Nevada.[2] He was defeated by Cresent Hardy in the Republican primary on June 10, 2014.[3]
Poliak was previously a 2012 Republican candidate who sought election to the U.S. Senate from Nevada.
Elections
2022
See also: United States Senate election in Nevada, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Nevada
Incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto defeated Adam Laxalt, Barry Lindemann, Neil Scott, and Barry Rubinson in the general election for U.S. Senate Nevada on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Catherine Cortez Masto (D) | 48.8 | 498,316 |
 | Adam Laxalt (R) | 48.0 | 490,388 | |
 | Barry Lindemann (Independent)  | 0.8 | 8,075 | |
 | Neil Scott (L) | 0.6 | 6,422 | |
 | Barry Rubinson (Independent American Party) | 0.5 | 5,208 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.2 | 12,441 | ||
| Total votes: 1,020,850 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Joseph Destin (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Nevada
Incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto defeated Corey Reid, Allen Rheinhart, and Stephanie Kasheta in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Nevada on June 14, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Catherine Cortez Masto | 90.9 | 159,694 |
 | Corey Reid | 2.6 | 4,491 | |
 | Allen Rheinhart | 2.2 | 3,852 | |
| Stephanie Kasheta | 2.0 | 3,487 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 2.4 | 4,216 | ||
| Total votes: 175,740 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Nevada
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Nevada on June 14, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Adam Laxalt | 55.9 | 127,757 |
 | Sam Brown | 34.2 | 78,206 | |
 | Sharelle Mendenhall | 3.0 | 6,946 | |
 | William Conrad | 1.5 | 3,440 | |
 | William Hockstedler | 1.2 | 2,836 | |
| Paul Rodriguez | 0.8 | 1,844 | ||
| Tyler Perkins | 0.4 | 850 | ||
 | Carlo Poliak | 0.1 | 332 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 2.7 | 6,277 | ||
| Total votes: 228,488 | |||
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2016
The race for Nevada's open U.S. Senate seat was one of Ballotpedia's nine competitive battleground races in 2016. Former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto (D) defeated U.S. Rep. Joe Heck (R), a doctor and brigadier general in the Army Reserve who served in Iraq, and four third-party candidates in the general election to win retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s (D) seat. Her victory on November 8, 2016, made her the first-ever Latina elected to the United States Senate.[4][5][6]
Reid’s seat was the Republican Party’s only chance to pick up a Senate seat this cycle. Cortez Masto’s biggest ally was Reid, who used his get out the vote resources to make sure his seat stayed under Democratic control. Reid and outside groups heavily influenced the race and were partially responsible for the negative tone and numerous attack ads. According to USA Today, “The race was anything but cordial. Outside money flooded the state bringing the total spending to nearly $100 million. All that cash washed away nearly any real policy discussion, as attacks flew claiming Cortez Masto was incompetent and corrupt while Heck was a stooge for the billionaire Koch Brothers.”[7]
In her victory speech, Cortez Masto commented on her status as the first Latina elected to the Senate, saying, "It's not just about making history. Don't you think it is about time that we had diversity in the U.S. Senate? Don't you think it's about time that our government mirrors the people we serve every day?"[8]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic |  Catherine Cortez Masto |
47.1% | 521,994 | |
| Republican | Joe Heck | 44.7% | 495,079 | |
| N/A | None of these candidates | 3.8% | 42,257 | |
| Independent American | Tom Jones | 1.5% | 17,128 | |
| Independent | Thomas Sawyer | 1.3% | 14,208 | |
| Independent | Tony Gumina | 1% | 10,740 | |
| Independent | Jarrod Williams | 0.6% | 6,888 | |
| Total Votes | 1,108,294 | |||
| Source: Nevada Secretary of State | ||||
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Joe Heck |
64.9% | 74,524 | ||
| Sharron Angle | 22.8% | 26,146 | ||
| None of these candidates | 3.4% | 3,903 | ||
| Tom Heck | 3.1% | 3,567 | ||
| Eddie Hamilton | 1.8% | 2,057 | ||
| D'Nese Davis | 1.7% | 1,938 | ||
| Bill Tarbell | 1% | 1,179 | ||
| Robert Leeds | 0.6% | 662 | ||
| Juston Preble | 0.5% | 582 | ||
| Carlo Poliak | 0.2% | 279 | ||
| Total Votes | 114,837 | |||
| Source: Nevada Secretary of State |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Catherine Cortez Masto |
80.6% | 81,971 | ||
| Allen Rheinhart | 5.6% | 5,650 | ||
| None of these candidates | 5.4% | 5,501 | ||
| Liddo O'Briant | 4.8% | 4,842 | ||
| Bobby Mahendra | 3.7% | 3,764 | ||
| Total Votes | 101,728 | |||
| Source: Nevada Secretary of State |
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2014
Poliak ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. House to represent Nevada's 4th District. Poliak sought the Republican nomination in the primary on June 10, 2014, but lost to Cresent Hardy.
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Cresent Hardy |
42.6% | 10,398 | ||
| Niger Innis | 33.1% | 8,077 | ||
| Mike Monroe | 22.1% | 5,393 | ||
| Carlo Poliak | 2.1% | 523 | ||
| Total Votes | 24,391 | |||
| Source: Nevada Secretary of State - Official Election Results |
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2012
Poliak ran in the 2012 election for the U.S. Senate, representing Nevada. He was defeated in the Republican primary on June 12, 2012.
The University of Virginia's Center for Politics published an article called Sabato's Crystal Ball on March 22, 2012, detailing the eight races in the Senate in 2012 that would impact the political fate of which party ended up with control in 2013.[9] The seat rated a toss-up that Sabato's Crystal Ball believed was most likely to depend on the outcome of the Presidential election in November is the Senate seat in Nevada.[9] According to the article, "the size of the Hispanic vote in Nevada come November may be more of a deciding factor in this contest than any SuperPAC."[9]
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
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Campaign advertisements
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedprimary16 - ↑ Nevada Secretary of State, "2014 Candidate Filing Search," accessed March 18, 2014
- ↑ Associated Press, "Nevada - Summary Vote Results," accessed June 10, 2014
- ↑ Time, "Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada Is U.S. Senate’s First Latina," accessed November 14, 2016
- ↑ Nevada Secretary of State, "2016 Filed Non-Judicial Candidates," accessed March 19, 2016
- ↑ Nevada Secretary of State, "2016 Master Statewide Certified List of Candidates," accessed September 7, 2016
- ↑ USA Today, "Nevada voters send first Latina to U.S. Senate," accessed November 14, 2016
- ↑ McClatchy DC, "Nevada's Cortez Masto breaks barrier as 1st Latina in Senate," accessed November 14, 2016
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Center for Politics, "Tilting the Toss Ups – the Eight Races That Will Decide the Senate," accessed April 9, 2012
