Nevada State Democratic Party
Chairperson	Daniele Monroe-Moreno
Senate Majority Leader	Nicole Cannizzaro
Speaker of the Nevada Assembly	Steve Yeager
Headquarters	2320 Paseo del Prado Las Vegas, Nevada
Membership (2022)	709,541[1]
Ideology	Liberalism
National affiliation	Democratic Party
Colors	Blue
Statewide Executive Offices	3 / 6
Nevada Senate	13 / 21
Nevada Assembly	28 / 42
U.S. Senate	2 / 2
U.S. House of Representatives	3 / 4
Website
www.nvdems.com
Politics of Nevada Elections

The Nevada State Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Nevada. It has been chaired by Daniele Monroe-Moreno since March 2023. It is currently the state's favored party, controlling all but one of Nevada's four U.S. House seats, both U.S. Senate seats, and both houses of the state legislature. The only statewide offices that the party does not control are the governorship, lieutenant governorship, and controllership, which are currently held by Republicans Joe Lombardo, Stavros Anthony, and Andy Matthews, respectively.

History

The state of Nevada has had 22 political parties over the years.^[2] Only six of these parties lasted up until the 2004 elections. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party remain as the top two in the state.

With the help of Abraham Lincoln in 1864, Nevada became the 36th state in America. Lincoln's Republican influence was considerable among the Nevada state citizens during his presidency. The first two general elections in Nevada, held in 1864 and 1867, were dominated by the Republican Party. In 1871, the Democratic Party started to gain momentum and won four of the six constitutional offices: governor, lieutenant governor, state treasurer and attorney general.

Towards the beginning of the 1900s, the Silver Party was formed, bringing many Republicans and Democrats together from the western states. The party was so-named because of the federal government's shortage of silver coins in 1873. The Silver Party played a prominent role in Nevada's politics in the 1894 and 1898 elections. The Silver Party later formed the Silver Democratic Party. The Silver Democratic Party was prominent in Nevada until the election of 1906. After the election of 1906, the Democratic and Republican parties became the two primary parties in Nevada.

During the Great Depression of 1929, the two primary parties split many constitutional and federal offices. After the Great Depression, the citizens of Nevada preferred the Democratic Party over the Republican Party. Democrats were well received by Nevada and won most of the statewide and federal races from 1932 until 1995.

Platform and structure

The current platform for the party was ratified in 2020. The topics that are covered include the military, veterans, healthcare, civil rights, education, elections and government, voting rights, environment and energy, foreign policy, jobs and the economy, and working Nevadans.^[5]

A priority for Nevada Democrats in the 2010s and 2020s has been increasing the minimum wage. In 2019, Democratic governor Steve Sisolak signed a bill passed by a Democratic legislature to raise Nevada's minimum wage to $12 an hour.^{[6][7][8][9][10]}

The party has a formal set of by-laws that form the party structure. These by-laws contain nine articles with many sections in each article.^[11]

Current Democratic officeholders

The Nevada Democratic Party controls five of the state's six statewide offices, a majority in the Nevada Senate, and a majority in the Nevada Assembly. Democrats also hold both of the state's U.S. Senate seats and three of the state's four U.S. House of Representatives seats.

Members of Congress

U.S. Senate

Democrats have controlled both of Nevada's seats in the U.S. Senate since 2018:

• 
  Junior U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen
• 
  Senior U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto

U.S. House of Representatives

Out of the four seats Nevada is apportioned in the U.S. House of Representatives, three are held by Democrats:

District	Member	Photo
1st	Dina Titus
3rd	Susie Lee
4th	Steven Horsford

County chairs

• Carson City: Lewis Hardy
• Churchill County: Larry Jackson
• Clark County: Chris Roberts
• Douglas County: Donna Weidner
• Elko County, Nevada: Steve Anderson
• Esmeralda County: Vacant
• Eureka County: Vacant
• Lander County: Claudio Cardoza
• Humboldt County: Vacant
• Lincoln County: Vacant
• Lyon County: Tony Stephenson
• Mineral County: Béa Whitney
• Nye County: Kelly Fitzpatrick
• Pershing County: Vacant
• Storey County: Vacant
• Washoe County: Sarah Mahler
• White Pine County: Vacant

Election results

Gubernatorial

Nevada Democratic Party gubernatorial election results

Election	Gubernatorial candidate	Votes	Vote %	Result
1864
1870	Lewis R. Bradley			Won Y
1874
1878
1882	Jewett W. Adams	7,770	54.32%	Won Y
1886	Jewett W. Adams	5,869	47.59%	Lost N
1890	Theodore Winters	5,791	46.73%	Lost N
1894	Theodore Winters	678	6.47%	Lost N
1898	George Russell	2,057	20.55%	Lost N
1902	Endorsed John Sparks (Silver)	N/A	N/A	Did not run
1906	Endorsed John Sparks (Silver)	N/A	N/A	Did not run
1910	Denver S. Dickerson	8,798	42.66%	Lost N
1914	Emmet D. Boyle	9,623	44.65%	Won Y
1918	Emmet D. Boyle	12,875	52.08%	Won Y
1922	James G. Scrugham	15,437	53.88%	Won Y
1926	James G. Scrugham	14,521	47.00%	Lost N
1930	Charles L. Richards	16,192	46.75%	Lost N
1934	Richard Kirman Sr.	23,088	53.94%	Won Y
1938	Edward P. Carville	28,528	61.86%	Won Y
1942	Edward P. Carville	24,505	60.26%	Won Y
1946	Vail Pittman	28,655	57.42%	Won Y
1950	Vail Pittman	26,164	42.36%	Lost N
1954	Vail Pittman	36,797	46.90%	Lost N
1958	Grant Sawyer	50,864	59.92%	Won Y
1962	Grant Sawyer	64,784	66.84%	Won Y
1966	Grant Sawyer	65,870	47.84%	Lost N
1970	Mike O'Callaghan	70,697	48.10%	Won Y
1974	Mike O'Callaghan	114,114	67.38%	Won Y
1978	Robert E. Rose	76,361	39.68%	Lost N
1982	Richard Bryan	128,132	53.30%	Won Y
1986	Richard Bryan	187,268	71.92%	Won Y
1990	Bob Miller	207,878	64.81%	Won Y
1994	Bob Miller	200,026	52.68%	Won Y
1998	Jan Laverty Jones	182,281	42.04%	Lost N
2002	Joe Neal	110,935	22.01%	Lost N
2006	Dina Titus	255,684	43.92%	Lost N
2010	Rory Reid	298,171	41.61%	Lost N
2014	Bob Goodman	130,722	23.88%	Lost N
2018	Steve Sisolak	480,007	49.39%	Won Y
2022	Steve Sisolak	481,991	47.03%	Lost N

References

External links

• Nevada State Democratic Party