Editing Nevada (section)

==Politics==
{{See also||Political party strength in Nevada}}

{| class="wikitable floatleft"
|+ '''Party registration as of April 2025'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nvsos.gov/sos/elections/voters/voter-registration-statistics/2025-statistics/-fsiteid-1|title=Voter Registration Statistics|access-date=May 2, 2025}}</ref>
|-
! colspan="2" | Party
! Total voters
! Percentage
|-
| {{party color cell|Republican Party (United States)}}
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 616,808
| style="text-align:center;" | 29.02%
|-
| {{party color cell|Democratic Party (United States)}}
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 616,638
| style="text-align:center;" | 29.01%
|-
| {{party color cell|Constitution Party (United States)}}
| [[Independent American Party of Nevada|Independent American]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 94,849
| style="text-align:center;" | 4.46%
|-
| {{party color cell|Libertarian Party (United States)}}
| [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 16,215
| style="text-align:center;" | 0.76%
|-
| {{party color cell|Other parties (US)}}
| [[List of political parties in the United States|Other parties]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 38,135
| style="text-align:center;" | 1.79%
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent Party (United States)}}
| [[Independent voter|Nonpartisan]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 743,161
| style="text-align:center;" | 34.96%
|-
! colspan="2" | Total
! style="text-align:center;" | 2,125,806
! style="text-align:center;" | 100.00%
|}

===State politics===

[[File:Party registration by county (February 2025).svg|thumb|Party Registration by County in Nevada (February 2025):
{{legend|#ffccd0|2=Republican ≥ 30%}}
{{legend|#f2b3be|2=Republican ≥ 40%}}
{{legend|#e27f90|2=Republican ≥ 50%}}
{{legend|#cc2f4a|2=Republican ≥ 60%}}
{{legend|#e9beff|2=Unaffiliated ≥ 30%}}]]

Due to heavy growth in the southern portion of the state, there is a noticeable divide between the politics of northern and southern Nevada. Historically, northern Nevada has been very [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]. The more rural counties of the north are among the most conservative regions of the state. Carson City, the state's capital, is a Republican-leaning swing city/county. Washoe County, home to Reno, has historically been strongly Republican, but now has become a fairly balanced swing county, like the state as a whole. Clark County, home to Las Vegas, has been a stronghold for the Democratic Party since it was founded in 1909, having voted Republican only six times and once for a third-party candidate, although in recent times becoming more competitive, most notably in the 2024 Presidential Election where the Democratic Party's margin of victory was only 2.63 percentage points to Republicans.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://silverstateelection.nv.gov/county-results/clark.shtml|title=Clark County 2024 General Election Results}}</ref> Clark and Washoe counties have long dominated the state's politics. Between them, they cast 87% of Nevada's vote, and elect a substantial majority of the state legislature. The last Republican to carry Clark County was [[George H. W. Bush]] in 1988, and the last Republican to carry Washoe County was [[George W. Bush]] in 2004. The great majority of the state's elected officials are from either Las Vegas or Reno.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Division/Research/Publications/PHoN/PHoN.pdf|title=Political History of Nevada}}</ref> Donald Trump was able to carry Nevada with a statewide majority in 2024, despite losing both Clark and Washoe.

In 2014, Republican [[Adam Laxalt]], despite losing both Clark and Washoe counties, was elected [[Nevada Attorney General|Attorney General]]. However, he had lost Clark County only by 5.6% and Washoe County by 1.4%, attributable to lower turnout in these counties.<ref>{{Cite web|title=2014 Attorney General General Election Results|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=32&year=2014&f=0&off=9&elect=0|website=[[Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections]]|access-date=July 6, 2021|archive-date=July 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184754/https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=32&year=2014&f=0&off=9&elect=0|url-status=live}}</ref>

===National politics===

{{See also|United States presidential elections in Nevada}}

[[File:Nevada Presidential Election Results 2024.svg|thumb|[[2024 United States presidential election in Nevada|2024 U.S. presidential election results]] by county in Nevada {{leftlegend|#4389E3|Democratic}}{{leftlegend|#AA0000|Republican}}]]

Nevada has been won by the winner of nearly every presidential election since its first in 1864, only being carried by the defeated candidate eight times since statehood, most of which were before 1900. Since 1912 Nevada has been carried by the presidential victor the most out of any state (27 of 29 elections), the only exceptions being [[1976 United States presidential election|1976]] when it voted for [[Gerald Ford]] over [[Jimmy Carter]] and [[2016 United States presidential election|2016]] when the state was carried by [[Hillary Clinton]] over [[Donald Trump]]. This gives the state status as a political [[bellwether]].  It was one of only three states won by [[John F. Kennedy]] in [[Western United States|the American West]] in the election of [[1960 United States presidential election|1960]], albeit narrowly.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/09/1159666/-2012-vs-1960 |title=2012 vs 1960 |publisher=Daily Kos |date=November 9, 2012 |access-date=January 17, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309051908/http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/09/1159666/-2012-vs-1960 |archive-date=March 9, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>
The state's U.S. Senators are Democrats [[Catherine Cortez Masto]] and [[Jacky Rosen]]. The Governorship is held by [[Joe Lombardo]], a Republican.

===Elections===

{{Main|Elections in Nevada}}

Nevada is the only U.S. state to have a [[none of the above]] option available on its ballots. Officially called [[None of These Candidates]], the option was first added to the ballot in 1975 and is used in all statewide elections, including president, US Senate and all state constitutional positions. In the event "None of These Candidates" receives a [[Plurality (voting)|plurality]] of votes in the election, the candidate with the next-highest total is elected.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/not-fan-candidate-nevada-can-vote-none-candidates|title=Not a fan of any candidate? In Nevada, you can vote for 'None of These Candidates'|website=PBS NewsHour |access-date=September 12, 2018|date=October 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180912204726/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/not-fan-candidate-nevada-can-vote-none-candidates|archive-date=September 12, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In a 2020 study, Nevada was ranked as the 23rd on the "Cost of Voting Index", which is a measure of "the ease of voting across the United States."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pomante II |first1=Michael J. |last2=Li |first2=Quan |title=Cost of Voting in the American States: 2020 |journal=Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy |date=15 Dec 2020 |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=503–509 |doi=10.1089/elj.2020.0666 |s2cid=225139517 |doi-access=free | issn=1533-1296 }}</ref>