Tag: nevada

  • State ballot measure update: Four ballot measures certified for 2025, one for 2026, during the past two weeks

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    Four statewide measures are certified for the 2025 ballot in one state—Louisiana—as of Nov. 26, 2024. For 2026, eight statewide measures have been certified for the ballot in six states. 2025 ballot measures During the past two weeks, four constitutional amendments were certified in Louisiana for a special election on March 29, 2025: 2026 ballot…

  • Nevadans may decide on two initiatives, related to teacher strikes and attorney contingency fees, in 2026

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    Two Nevada initiative campaigns submitted signatures for initiatives targeting the 2026 ballot. If at least 102,362 signatures are found valid, the initiatives will be presented to the Nevada State Legislature. If approved by the legislature and signed by the governor, the proposed statute becomes law. If not, the law is submitted to voters at the…

  • Shelley Berkley defeats Victoria Seaman for Las Vegas mayor

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    Shelley Berkley defeated Victoria Seaman in the general election for mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada, on Nov. 5, 2024. Berkley and Seaman were the top-two vote-getters in the June 11, 2024, primary, and both advanced to the general election because neither won a majority of the votes. Incumbent Carolyn Goodman, who was first elected in…

  • Voters in Nevada must approve Question 6, related to abortion, and Question 7, related to voter ID, again due to Nevada’s two-election requirement

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    Voters in Nevada approved two citizen-initiated constitutional amendments on Nov. 5. Question 6 would provide for a state constitutional right to an abortion. Question 7 would establish voter ID requirements in the state. Voters rejected Question 3, which would have established top-five primaries and ranked-choice voting for general elections. Nov. 5 was the second election…

  • 30% of elections in Nevada are uncontested

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    Of 227 regular elections in Nevada—69 (30%) are uncontested. An uncontested election is one where the number of candidates on the ballot is less than or equal to the number of seats up for election.  Of the 26 states where Ballotpedia is covering every election on Nov. 5, Nevada has the 26th highest rate of…

  • Four candidates are running in the general election for Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District on Nov. 5, 2024

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    Incumbent Mark Amodei (R), Lynn Chapman (Independent American Party), Javi Tachiquin (L), and Greg Kidd (No Political Party) are running in the Nov. 5, 2024, general election for Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District. Amodei and Kidd lead in media attention and fundraising. The Nov. 5 election will be the first time since 1998 that no Democrat…

  • One seat could determine Democratic supermajority in Nevada

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    Elections for 10 of the 21 seats in the Nevada Senate will take place on November 5, 2024. The Nevada Senate is one of 85 state legislative chambers with elections in 2024. There are 99 chambers throughout the country. Nevada Current’s April Corbin Girnus wrote, “Democrats already have a supermajority in the Assembly. If Democrats…

  • Supermajority and trifecta status at stake in Nevada Assembly elections

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    Elections for the Nevada Assembly are being held on Nov. 5, 2024. All 42 seats are up for election. Nevada is one of 10 states that has a divided government. Republican Joe Lombardo (R) holds the governorship while Democrats hold both chambers of the Nevada Legislature. Democrats hold 26 seats to Republicans’ 14, with two…

  • Berkley, Seaman vie for Las Vegas mayor in Nov. 5 general election

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    Shelley Berkley and Victoria Seaman are running in the general election for mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 5, 2024. Berkley and Seaman were the top-two vote-getters in the June 11, 2024, primary, and both advanced to the general election because neither won a majority of the votes. Incumbent Carolyn Goodman, who was first elected in 2011, is term-limited. Goodman’s…

  • Eight candidates are running in the general election for Nevada’s 1st Congressional District

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    Eight candidates are running in Nevada’s 1st Congressional District election on November 5, 2024. Incumbent Rep. Dina Titus (D) and Mark Robertson (R) lead in endorsements, campaign finance, and media attention. The race will be a rematch between Titus and Robertson, who ran against each other in the 2022 general election. According to The Nevada…