Laxalt is a Basque surname and may refer to:
Frank Grant Sawyer was an American politician. He was the 21st Governor of Nevada from 1959 to 1967. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Paul Dominique Laxalt was an American attorney and politician who served as the 22nd governor of Nevada from 1967 to 1971 and a United States senator from Nevada from 1974 until 1987. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of Ronald Reagan's closest friends in politics. After Reagan was elected president in 1980, many in the national press referred to Laxalt as "the first friend". He was the older brother of writer Robert Laxalt and grandfather of Adam Laxalt, who served as the 33rd attorney general of Nevada from 2015 to 2019.
Robert Laxalt was a Basque-American writer from Nevada.
Esquivel is a surname of Basque origin as well as a place name.
Basque Americans are Americans of Basque descent. According to the 2000 US census, there are 57,793 Americans of full or partial Basque descent.
McNamee is a surname of Irish origin. The original Gaelic version, Mac Conmidhe means "hound of Meath".
Ayala is a toponymic surname, originally de Ayala, deriving from the town of Ayala/Aiara in the province of Álava, in the Basque Country, northern Spain.
Agosti is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The 2016 United States Senate election in Nevada was held November 8, 2016 to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Nevada, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. The state primary election was held June 14, 2016.
The Nevada general election, 2014 was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014, throughout Nevada.
Stephen F. Sisolak is an American businessman and politician who has served as the 30th governor of Nevada since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he served on the Clark County Commission from 2009 to 2019 and on the Nevada Board of Regents from 1999 to 2008.
Adam Paul Laxalt is an American attorney and politician who served as the 33rd Nevada Attorney General from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he is its nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in Nevada.
The 2018 Nevada gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the next Governor of Nevada. Incumbent Republican Governor Brian Sandoval was ineligible to run for re-election, due to the absolute two-term limit established by the Nevada Constitution. Nevada is one of eight U.S. states that prohibits its governors or any other state and territorial executive branch officials from serving more than two terms, even if they are nonconsecutive.
The Nevada general election, 2018 was held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018 throughout Nevada.
The 2022 Nevada gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Nevada. Incumbent Democratic governor Steve Sisolak was running to a second term. Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo was the Republican nominee.
The 2022 United States Senate election in Nevada was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Nevada.
Andrew Thomas "Andy" Matthews is an American politician in the Nevada Assembly from Nevada's 37th district. A graduate of Boston University, Matthews briefly worked as a sports writer before entering politics in 2005 as a campaign worker in New Jersey. Matthews has worked for the conservative Nevada Policy Research Institute since 2007, starting as the communications director and ultimately becoming president. He was elected to the Nevada Assembly in 2020 after defeating incumbent Democrat Shea Backus, thus flipping the seat from Democratic to Republican. He previously ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in Nevada, but came in fourth in the 2016 Republican primary, finishing behind the winner Danny Tarkanian, as well as second place finisher Michael Roberson, and third place finisher Michele Fiore. He was then hired as executive director of a conservative PAC tied to former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt. In 2018, Matthews worked for Adam Laxalt's campaign for Governor of Nevada, but Laxalt was defeated by Democrat Steve Sisolak, and Matthews then successfully ran for the Nevada Assembly in the 2020 election. In 2022, Matthews chose not to run for reelection to the Assembly and instead entered the race for Nevada State Controller. He was unopposed in the Republican primary, and is facing Democrat Ellen Spiegel and Libertarian candidate Jed Profeta in the November general election.
The 2018 Nevada Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Nevada.
The 2022 Nevada Secretary of State election will be held on November 8, 2022, to elect the Secretary of State of Nevada.