2022 Nevada Attorney General election

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2022 Nevada Attorney General election
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Nominee Aaron Ford Sigal Chattah
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote511,263434,084
Percentage52.25%44.36%
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Ford:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     >90%
Chattah:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     >90%
Tie:     40–50%     50%     No votes
Attorney General before election

Aaron D. Ford
Democratic

Elected Attorney General

Aaron D. Ford
Democratic

The 2022 Nevada Attorney General election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the Attorney General of Nevada. Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford won re-election to a second term in office. As Ford narrowly won Carson City, this was the first time since 2014 that a Democrat had won a county or county-equivalent outside of Clark or Washoe County. Ford's performance was also the best for a Nevada Democrat in a statewide race in 2022, as all other successful Democratic candidates for statewide races won with pluralities of the vote.

Contents

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Disqualified

Endorsements

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

  • Sigal Chattah, defense attorney and former member of the Southern Nevada Disciplinary Board of the State Bar of Nevada [13]

Eliminated in primary

  • Tisha Black, attorney and former president of the Nevada Cannabis Association [14]

Debate

2022 Nevada Attorney General Republican primary debate
No.DateHostModeratorLink Republican Republican
Key:
 P Participant  A Absent  N Not invited  I Invited  W  Withdrawn
Sigal ChattahTisha Black
1May 5, 2022Nevada NewsmakersVictor Joecks
Sam Shad		 YouTube PP

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size [lower-alpha 1] 		Margin
of error		Tisha
Black		Sigal
Chattah		None of These
Candidates		Undecided
OH Predictive Insights May 10–12, 2022500 (LV)± 4.4%18%15%29%37%

Results

Results by county: Chattah 40-50% 50-60% Black 40-50% 2022 NV AG Republican primary election results map by county.svg
Results by county:
  Chattah
  •   40–50%
  •   50–60%
  Black
  •   40–50%
Republican primary results [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Sigal Chattah 112,941 50.99%
Republican Tisha Black88,01939.74%
None of These Candidates 20,5459.28%
Total votes221,505 100.0%

Libertarian primary

John Kennedy was disqualified from running after he did not meet the requirement for candidates to be members of the State Bar of Nevada. As he was disqualified after general election ballots had already been printed, he remained on the ballot, but any votes he received did not count. [16]

Candidates

Declared

General election

Endorsements

Aaron Ford (D)
U.S. Representatives
State officials
Individuals
Organizations
Newspapers
Labor unions

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
Sabato's Crystal Ball [21] TossupNovember 3, 2022
Elections Daily [22] Leans DNovember 7, 2022

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size [lower-alpha 1] 		Margin
of error		Aaron
Ford (D)		Sigal
Chattah (R)		None of These
Candidates		OtherUndecided
Emerson College October 26–29, 20222,000 (LV)± 2.1%45%40%––6%
OH Predictive Insights October 24–27, 2022600 (LV)± 4.0%43%35%3%5% [lower-alpha 2] 15%
Susquehanna Polling and Research (R) [lower-alpha 3] October 24–27, 2022500 (LV)± 4.3%44%41%1%10% [lower-alpha 4] 4%
University of Nevada, Reno October 5–19, 2022576 (LV)± 4.0%37%25%–5% [lower-alpha 5] 32%
OH Predictive Insights September 20–29, 2022741 (LV)± 3.6%37%39%3%4% [lower-alpha 6] 17%
Suffolk University August 14–17, 2022500 (LV)± 4.4%33%28%4%12% [lower-alpha 7] 23%

Results

2022 Nevada Attorney General election [23]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Aaron D. Ford (incumbent) 511,263 52.25% +5.01%
Republican Sigal Chattah434,08444.36%−2.41%
None of These Candidates 33,1353.39%+0.74%
Total votes978,482 100.0%
Democratic hold

By congressional district

Ford won three of four congressional districts. [24]

DistrictFordChattahRepresentative
1st 53.1%40.6% Dina Titus
2nd 47.5%48.3% Mark Amodei
3rd 52.7%42.0% Susie Lee
4th 52.6%41.6% Steven Horsford

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Key:
    A – all adults
    RV – registered voters
    LV – likely voters
    V – unclear
  2. ↑ Kennedy (L) with 4%; "Refused" with 1%
  3. ↑ Poll conducted for BUSR, an online gambling website.
  4. ↑ Kennedy (L) with 9%; "Refuse" with 1%
  5. ↑ "Some other candidate" with 5%
  6. ↑ Kennedy (L) with 4%
  7. ↑ Kennedy (L) with 12%

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