Former President Donald Trump points to the crowd on Oct. 8, 2022, at a rally for candidates Adam Laxalt and Joe Lombardo conducted at Minden-Tahoe Airport.
Michael Chan | Special to The R-C
With Douglas County’s significant Republican majority, it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that Donald Trump would win the county by a 2-1 margin.
Former and future President Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris statewide by 48,076 votes, according to the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office on Saturday.
"Congratulations to Donald J. Trump and Sen. JD Vance on their victory,” said Team Trump Nevada Communications Director Halee Dobbins on Saturday morning. “After four years under Kamala Harris, Silver State voters are eager for President Trump to fix what Kamala Harris broke. Starting on Day 1, President Trump and Vice President JD Vance will help to ease costs, secure the border — and Make America Great Again."
Trump won 16 of Nevada’s 17 counties, the first time a Republican has won the Silver State since 2004.
With just a 1.29 percent lead, Sen. Jacky Rosen was declared the winner in her contest against candidate Sam Brown.
Brown led Rosen in Douglas County, 21,775-11,485, but under performed the presidential race.
Despite receiving 2,972 fewer votes than Harris statewide, Rosen outperformed the Vice President in 13 counties.
Trump received 22,845 votes in Douglas to Harris’ 11,356.
Rosen won both Clark and Washoe counties.
Rosen was scheduled to deliver her victory remarks on Saturday afternoon. Brown issued a concession statement on Saturday morning.
According to silverstateelection.nv.gov all four of Nevada’s incumbent representatives were re-elected, with Second Congressional District Rep. Mark Amodei pulling in the largest percentage of the group.
Amodei defeated nonpartisan Greg Kidd, 206,302-132,418, with Douglas handing the incumbent a 2-1 margin.
Douglas also came in overwhelmingly in favor of Assembly 39 incumbent Ken Gray over Democrat Erich Obermayr.
Gray won the district 32,874-13,093, receiving 23,324 of those votes in Douglas and 9,551 votes in Lyon County.
An issue with part of a Lyon County precinct not being moved to District 39 was revealed the Friday before Election Day.
A portion of Lyon County Precinct 26 was left in Assembly District 38 after not being properly redistricted, confirmed Lyon County Clerk-Treasurer Staci Lindberg on Monday.
The precinct should have been included in Gray’s district.
County Commissioner Danny Tarkanian easily defeated opponents Jason Gibson and Brian Dempsey with 63.77 percent of the vote.
Gibson filed as a Democrat and then changed his party to Natural Law in July prompting an effort to have him removed from the ballot.
Despite that, he was still received 7,184 votes over Dempsey’s 4,916. Even if the effort to remove Gibson from the ballot had been successful, the combined totals didn’t come close to Tarkanian’s 21,295 result.
