Results of Nevada's presidential race compared to the senate race.
Source: Nevada Secretary of State's Office
With the 2024 General Election starting to appear in the rear-view mirror as the returns are counted and certification completed by the counties, it’s time to take a look back and see what just happened.
Having a split between the two races at the top of the ballot shouldn’t be a surprise in Nevada.
Comparing the statewide voter totals for past and future President Trump and Sen. Jacky Rosen, it’s pretty clear that Nevada’s majority of nonpartisan voters were open to shopping.
A peek at the latest voter registration numbers on the Secretary of State’s website indicates there are 828,065 unaffiliated voters in the Silver State, making not being a member of a party easily the largest party in Nevada
What’s interesting to us is that Rosen led the Harris-Walz campaign in votes in 13 of Nevada’s 17 counties.
Certainly, Sam Brown actually won most of those counties, but not by enough to catch up to the votes in Clark and Washoe counties, where 88 percent of the state’s voters live.
The 2024 election was a matter of inches, with Trump voters enthusiastic to cast their ballots and Harris just not drawing enough votes from the rest of the state to overcome a razor-thin 46,000-vote margin.
Rosen’s win was even slimmer with just 24,059 votes separating her from Brown statewide, fewer than the 44,380 votes for none of these candidates.
On Friday, the only suspense involved in county commissioners certifying the vote was whether a quorum would survive the internet connection for a majority of the board.
With 84.3 percent of the county’s voters casting a ballot, the turnout didn’t quite hit the hoped for 85 percent and was sixth in the Silver State.
As far as numbers go, Douglas is only a couple of thousand voters short of the top five counties combined. Lincoln, Humboldt, White Pine and Eureka combined only had 15,854 voters cast a ballot compared to Douglas’ 35,623. The addition of Elko’s 22,495 voters put those county’s turnouts ahead of Douglas County.
We agree with county commissioners and commenters that the 2024 election was well run in Douglas and offer our congratulations to Clerk-Treasurer Amy Burgans.
