Nevada Democratic Party

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Nevada State Democratic Party
Chairperson Daniele Monroe-Moreno
Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro
Speaker of the Nevada Assembly Steve Yeager
Headquarters2320 Paseo del Prado
Las Vegas, Nevada
Membership (2022)Increase2.svg709,541 [1]
Ideology Liberalism
National affiliation Democratic Party
Colors Blue
Statewide Executive Offices
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Nevada Senate
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Nevada Assembly
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U.S. Senate
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U.S. House of Representatives
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Website
www.nvdems.com

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.

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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.

March 2021 DSA Takeover

In March 2021, The Intercept reported on a five-year intra-party conflict in the Nevada Democratic Party, waged between supporters of former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and members of the party's progressive wing since the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries. Following sweeping gains of leadership positions by progressive candidates backed by the local Democratic Socialists of America chapter on March 6, the entire Nevada Democratic Party staff resigned, taking severance for themselves and diverting the rest of the party's coffers to the reelection of Senator Catherine Cortez Masto. [3] On March 4, 2023, a "unity" slate of candidates were elected, ending the DSA takeover. [4]

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]

Executive Board

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National Committee Representatives

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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:

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:

DistrictMemberPhoto
1st Dina Titus
Dina Titus official photo (cropped).jpg
3rd Susie Lee
Rep. Susie Lee 118th Portrait.jpg
4th Steven Horsford
Steven Horsford, official portrait, 116th Congress (cropped).jpg

Statewide offices

Democrats control three of the six elected statewide offices:

State legislature

County chairs

Election results

Presidential

Nevada Democratic Party presidential election results
ElectionPresidential TicketVotesVote %Electoral votesResult
1864 George B. McClellan/George H. Pendleton 6,59440.16%
0 / 2
Lost
1868 Horatio Seymour/Francis Preston Blair Jr. 5,21844.61%
0 / 3
Lost
1872 Horace Greeley/Benjamin G. Brown (Liberal Republican)6,23642.57%
0 / 3
Lost
1876 Samuel J. Tilden/Thomas A. Hendricks 9,30847.27%
0 / 3
Lost
1880 Winfield S. Hancock/William H. English 9,61352.40%
3 / 3
Lost
1884 Grover Cleveland/Thomas A. Hendricks 5,57843.59%
0 / 3
Won
1888 Grover Cleveland/Allen G. Thurman 5,14941.94%
0 / 3
Lost
1892 Grover Cleveland/Adlai E. Stevenson 7146.56%
0 / 3
Won
1896 William Jennings Bryan/Arthur Sewall 8,37681.21%
3 / 3
Lost
1900 William Jennings Bryan/Adlai E. Stevenson 6,34762.25%
3 / 3
Lost
1904 Alton B. Parker/Henry G. Davis 3,98232.87%
0 / 3
Lost
1908 William Jennings Bryan/John W. Kern 11,21245.71%
3 / 3
Lost
1912 Woodrow Wilson/Thomas R. Marshall 7,98639.70%
3 / 3
Won
1916 Woodrow Wilson/Thomas R. Marshall 17,77653.36%
3 / 3
Won
1920 James M. Cox/Franklin D. Roosevelt 9,85136.22%
0 / 3
Lost
1924 John W. Davis/Charles W. Bryan 5,90921.95%
0 / 3
Lost
1928 Al Smith/Joseph T. Robinson 14,09043.46%
0 / 3
Lost
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt/John N. Garner 28,75669.41%
3 / 3
Won
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt/John N. Garner 31,92572.81%
3 / 3
Won
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt/Henry A. Wallace 31,94560.08%
3 / 3
Won
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt/Harry S. Truman 29,62354.62%
3 / 3
Won
1948 Harry S. Truman/Alben W. Barkley 31,29150.37%
3 / 3
Won
1952 Adlai Stevenson/John Sparkman 31,68838.55%
0 / 3
Lost
1956 Adlai Stevenson/Estes Kefauver 40,64042.03%
0 / 3
Lost
1960 John F. Kennedy/Lyndon B. Johnson 54,88051.16%
3 / 3
Won
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson/Hubert Humphrey 79,33958.58%
3 / 3
Won
1968 Hubert Humphrey/Edmund Muskie 60,59839.29%
0 / 3
Lost
1972 George McGovern/Sargent Shriver 66,01636.32%
0 / 3
Lost
1976 Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale 92,47945.81%
0 / 3
Won
1980 Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale 66,66626.89%
0 / 3
Lost
1984 Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro 91,65531.97%
0 / 4
Lost
1988 Michael Dukakis/Lloyd Bentsen 132,73837.92%
0 / 4
Lost
1992 Bill Clinton/Al Gore 189,14837.36%
4 / 4
Won
1996 Bill Clinton/Al Gore 203,97443.93%
4 / 4
Won
2000 Al Gore/Joe Lieberman 279,97845.98%
0 / 4
Lost
2004 John Kerry/John Edwards 397,19047.88%
0 / 5
Lost
2008 Barack Obama/Joe Biden 533,73655.15%
5 / 5
Won
2012 Barack Obama/Joe Biden 531,37352.36%
6 / 6
Won
2016 Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine 539,26047.92%
6 / 6
Lost
2020 Joe Biden/Kamala Harris 703,48650.06%
6 / 6
Won

Gubernatorial

Nevada Democratic Party gubernatorial election results
ElectionGubernatorial candidateVotesVote %Result
1864
1870 Lewis R. Bradley WonGreen check.svg
1874
1878
1882 Jewett W. Adams 7,77054.32%WonGreen check.svg
1886 Jewett W. Adams 5,86947.59%LostRed x.svg
1890 Theodore Winters5,79146.73%LostRed x.svg
1894 Theodore Winters6786.47%LostRed x.svg
1898 George Russell2,05720.55%LostRed x.svg
1902 Endorsed John Sparks (Silver)N/AN/ADid not run
1906 Endorsed John Sparks (Silver)N/AN/ADid not run
1910 Denver S. Dickerson 8,79842.66%LostRed x.svg
1914 Emmet D. Boyle 9,62344.65%WonGreen check.svg
1918 Emmet D. Boyle 12,87552.08%WonGreen check.svg
1922 James G. Scrugham 15,43753.88%WonGreen check.svg
1926 James G. Scrugham 14,52147.00%LostRed x.svg
1930 Charles L. Richards 16,19246.75%LostRed x.svg
1934 Richard Kirman Sr. 23,08853.94%WonGreen check.svg
1938 Edward P. Carville 28,52861.86%WonGreen check.svg
1942 Edward P. Carville 24,50560.26%WonGreen check.svg
1946 Vail Pittman 28,65557.42%WonGreen check.svg
1950 Vail Pittman 26,16442.36%LostRed x.svg
1954 Vail Pittman 36,79746.90%LostRed x.svg
1958 Grant Sawyer 50,86459.92%WonGreen check.svg
1962 Grant Sawyer 64,78466.84%WonGreen check.svg
1966 Grant Sawyer 65,87047.84%LostRed x.svg
1970 Mike O'Callaghan 70,69748.10%WonGreen check.svg
1974 Mike O'Callaghan 114,11467.38%WonGreen check.svg
1978 Robert E. Rose 76,36139.68%LostRed x.svg
1982 Richard Bryan 128,13253.30%WonGreen check.svg
1986 Richard Bryan 187,26871.92%WonGreen check.svg
1990 Bob Miller 207,87864.81%WonGreen check.svg
1994 Bob Miller 200,02652.68%WonGreen check.svg
1998 Jan Laverty Jones 182,28142.04%LostRed x.svg
2002 Joe Neal 110,93522.01%LostRed x.svg
2006 Dina Titus 255,68443.92%LostRed x.svg
2010 Rory Reid 298,17141.61%LostRed x.svg
2014 Bob Goodman130,72223.88%LostRed x.svg
2018 Steve Sisolak 480,00749.39%WonGreen check.svg
2022 Steve Sisolak 481,99147.03%LostRed x.svg

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