Nevada Democratic Party

Nevada State Democratic Party
Nevada State Democratic Party
Chairwoman	Daniele Monroe-Moreno
Senate Majority Leader	Nicole Cannizzaro
Speaker of the Nevada Assembly	Steve Yeager
Headquarters	2320 Paseo del Prado; Las Vegas, Nevada
Membership (2024)	711,296
Ideology	Modern liberalism
National affiliation	Democratic Party
Colors	Blue
Statewide Executive Offices	3 / 6
Nevada Senate	13 / 21
Nevada Assembly	28 / 42
U.S. Senate	2 / 2
U.S. House of Representatives	3 / 4
Election symbol
Website
	www.nvdems.com
	Politics of Nevada ; Elections ;

Last updated January 01, 2025

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, three out of six statewide offices, and both houses of the state legislature. However, the party does not control the statewide offices of the governorship, lieutenant governorship, and controllership, which are currently held by Republicans Joe Lombardo, Stavros Anthony, and Andy Matthews, respectively.

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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Chair: Daniele Monroe-Moreno
1st Vice-Chair: Daniel Corena
2nd Vice-Chair: Francisco Morales
Secretary: Travis Brock
Treasurer: Leilani Hinyard

National Committee Representatives

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National Committeeman: Alex Goff
National Committeewoman: Allison Stephens

Current Democratic officeholders

The Nevada Democratic Party controls three 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:

Senior U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
Junior U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen

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:


District	Member	Photo
1st	Dina Titus
3rd	Susie Lee
4th	Steven Horsford

Statewide offices

Democrats control three of the six elected statewide offices:

Secretary of State: Cisco Aguilar

State legislature

Senate Majority Leader: Nicole Cannizzaro
Senate President Pro Tempore: Mo Denis
Assistant Senate Majority Leader: Joyce Woodhouse
Senate Chief Majority Whip: Pat Spearman
Senate Co-Majority Whips: Chris Brooks and Marilyn Dondero-Loop
Speaker of Nevada Assembly: Jason Frierson
Speaker Pro Tempore of Nevada Assembly: Steve Yeager
Assembly Majority Floor Leader: Teresa Benitez-Thompson
Assembly Assistant Majority Floor Leader: Daniele Monroe-Moreno
Assembly Majority Whip: Edgar Flores
Assembly Assistant Majority Whip: Sandra Jauregui

Local groups

The party has affiliate groups in localities throughout the state:^[14]

County chairs

Carson City: Lewis Hardy
Churchill County: Larry Jackson
Clark County: Chris Roberts
Douglas County: Donna Weidner
Elko County, Nevada: Steve Anderson
Esmeralda County: Vacant
Eureka County: Vacant
Lander County: Claudio Cardoza
Humboldt County: Vacant
Lincoln County: Vacant
Lyon County: Tony Stephenson
Mineral County: Béa Whitney
Nye County: Kelly Fitzpatrick
Pershing County: Vacant
Storey County: Vacant
Washoe County: Sarah Mahler
White Pine County: Vacant

Election results

Presidential

Nevada Democratic Party presidential election results
Election	Presidential ticket	Votes	Vote %	Electoral votes	Result
1864	George B. McClellan/George H. Pendleton	6,594	40.16%	0 / 2	Lost
1868	Horatio Seymour/Francis Preston Blair Jr.	5,218	44.61%	0 / 3	Lost
1872	Horace Greeley/Benjamin G. Brown (Liberal Republican)	6,236	42.57%	0 / 3	Lost
1876	Samuel J. Tilden/Thomas A. Hendricks	9,308	47.27%	0 / 3	Lost
1880	Winfield S. Hancock/William H. English	9,613	52.40%	3 / 3	Lost
1884	Grover Cleveland/Thomas A. Hendricks	5,578	43.59%	0 / 3	Won
1888	Grover Cleveland/Allen G. Thurman	5,149	41.94%	0 / 3	Lost
1892	Grover Cleveland/Adlai E. Stevenson	714	6.56%	0 / 3	Won
1896	William Jennings Bryan/Arthur Sewall	8,376	81.21%	3 / 3	Lost
1900	William Jennings Bryan/Adlai E. Stevenson	6,347	62.25%	3 / 3	Lost
1904	Alton B. Parker/Henry G. Davis	3,982	32.87%	0 / 3	Lost
1908	William Jennings Bryan/John W. Kern	11,212	45.71%	3 / 3	Lost
1912	Woodrow Wilson/Thomas R. Marshall	7,986	39.70%	3 / 3	Won
1916	Woodrow Wilson/Thomas R. Marshall	17,776	53.36%	3 / 3	Won
1920	James M. Cox/Franklin D. Roosevelt	9,851	36.22%	0 / 3	Lost
1924	John W. Davis/Charles W. Bryan	5,909	21.95%	0 / 3	Lost
1928	Al Smith/Joseph T. Robinson	14,090	43.46%	0 / 3	Lost
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt/John N. Garner	28,756	69.41%	3 / 3	Won
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt/John N. Garner	31,925	72.81%	3 / 3	Won
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt/Henry A. Wallace	31,945	60.08%	3 / 3	Won
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt/Harry S. Truman	29,623	54.62%	3 / 3	Won
1948	Harry S. Truman/Alben W. Barkley	31,291	50.37%	3 / 3	Won
1952	Adlai Stevenson/John Sparkman	31,688	38.55%	0 / 3	Lost
1956	Adlai Stevenson/Estes Kefauver	40,640	42.03%	0 / 3	Lost
1960	John F. Kennedy/Lyndon B. Johnson	54,880	51.16%	3 / 3	Won
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson/Hubert Humphrey	79,339	58.58%	3 / 3	Won
1968	Hubert Humphrey/Edmund Muskie	60,598	39.29%	0 / 3	Lost
1972	George McGovern/Sargent Shriver	66,016	36.32%	0 / 3	Lost
1976	Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale	92,479	45.81%	0 / 3	Won
1980	Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale	66,666	26.89%	0 / 3	Lost
1984	Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro	91,655	31.97%	0 / 4	Lost
1988	Michael Dukakis/Lloyd Bentsen	132,738	37.92%	0 / 4	Lost
1992	Bill Clinton/Al Gore	189,148	37.36%	4 / 4	Won
1996	Bill Clinton/Al Gore	203,974	43.93%	4 / 4	Won
2000	Al Gore/Joe Lieberman	279,978	45.98%	0 / 4	Lost
2004	John Kerry/John Edwards	397,190	47.88%	0 / 5	Lost
2008	Barack Obama/Joe Biden	533,736	55.15%	5 / 5	Won
2012	Barack Obama/Joe Biden	531,373	52.36%	6 / 6	Won
2016	Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine	539,260	47.92%	6 / 6	Lost
2020	Joe Biden/Kamala Harris	703,486	50.06%	6 / 6	Won
2024	Kamala Harris/Tim Walz	705,197	47.49%	0 / 6	Lost

Gubernatorial

Nevada Democratic Party gubernatorial election results
Election	Gubernatorial candidate	Votes	Vote %	Result
1864
1870	Lewis R. Bradley			WonY
1874
1878
1882	Jewett W. Adams	7,770	54.32%	WonY
1886	Jewett W. Adams	5,869	47.59%	LostN
1890	Theodore Winters	5,791	46.73%	LostN
1894	Theodore Winters	678	6.47%	LostN
1898	George Russell	2,057	20.55%	LostN
1902	Endorsed John Sparks (Silver)	N/A	N/A	Did not run
1906	Endorsed John Sparks (Silver)	N/A	N/A	Did not run
1910	Denver S. Dickerson	8,798	42.66%	LostN
1914	Emmet D. Boyle	9,623	44.65%	WonY
1918	Emmet D. Boyle	12,875	52.08%	WonY
1922	James G. Scrugham	15,437	53.88%	WonY
1926	James G. Scrugham	14,521	47.00%	LostN
1930	Charles L. Richards	16,192	46.75%	LostN
1934	Richard Kirman Sr.	23,088	53.94%	WonY
1938	Edward P. Carville	28,528	61.86%	WonY
1942	Edward P. Carville	24,505	60.26%	WonY
1946	Vail Pittman	28,655	57.42%	WonY
1950	Vail Pittman	26,164	42.36%	LostN
1954	Vail Pittman	36,797	46.90%	LostN
1958	Grant Sawyer	50,864	59.92%	WonY
1962	Grant Sawyer	64,784	66.84%	WonY
1966	Grant Sawyer	65,870	47.84%	LostN
1970	Mike O'Callaghan	70,697	48.10%	WonY
1974	Mike O'Callaghan	114,114	67.38%	WonY
1978	Robert E. Rose	76,361	39.68%	LostN
1982	Richard Bryan	128,132	53.30%	WonY
1986	Richard Bryan	187,268	71.92%	WonY
1990	Bob Miller	207,878	64.81%	WonY
1994	Bob Miller	200,026	52.68%	WonY
1998	Jan Laverty Jones	182,281	42.04%	LostN
2002	Joe Neal	110,935	22.01%	LostN
2006	Dina Titus	255,684	43.92%	LostN
2010	Rory Reid	298,171	41.61%	LostN
2014	Bob Goodman	130,722	23.88%	LostN
2018	Steve Sisolak	480,007	49.39%	WonY
2022	Steve Sisolak	481,991	47.30%	LostN

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References

↑ "Voter Registration Statistics".
↑ Hal K. Rothman. The Making of Modern Nevada. Fall 2010. September 8, 2011.
↑ Lacy, Akela; Grim, Ryan (March 8, 2021). "Entire Staff of Nevada Democratic Party Quits After Democratic Socialist Slate Won Every Seat". The Intercept. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
↑ Solis, Jacob (March 4, 2023). "Monroe-Moreno elected NV Dems chair, ousts democratic socialist incumbent". The Nevada Independent.
↑ Democratic, Nevada. "2020 Ratified Convention Platform | Blog | Nevada State Democratic Party" (PDF). Nevada State Democratic Party. Nvdems.com. Archived from the original on 2012-12-23. Retrieved 2013-01-21.
↑ Lochhead, Colton (13 June 2019). "Sisolak signs bill raising minimum wage to $12 an hour in Nevada". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
↑ Jackson, Hugh. "U.S. House passes what Nevada Legislature wouldn't: $15 minimum wage". Nevada Current. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
↑ Snyder, Riley (11 April 2019). "Lawmakers tackle bill gradually raising minimum wage to $12 by 2023, first increase in eight years". The Nevada Independent. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
↑ Snyder, Riley; Rindels, Michelle (31 May 2019). "Bill raising minimum wage to $12 by 2024 clears Senate, heads to governor". The Nevada Independent. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
↑ Sadler, John (31 May 2019). "Democrats continue to push proposals for higher minimum wage". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
↑ "Charter and Bylaws of the Nevada State Democratic Party" (PDF). August 22, 2020.
↑ "Party Leadership". Nevada Democratic Party. Retrieved 2023-03-10.
↑ "2020-2022 Executive Board". Nevada Democratic Party. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
↑ "County Parties & Statewide Clubs", nvdems.com, retrieved 2024-07-29

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[1] "Voter Registration Statistics".

[Rothman-2] Hal K. Rothman. The Making of Modern Nevada. Fall 2010. September 8, 2011.

[3] Lacy, Akela; Grim, Ryan (March 8, 2021). "Entire Staff of Nevada Democratic Party Quits After Democratic Socialist Slate Won Every Seat". The Intercept. Retrieved March 8, 2021.

[endDSA-4] Solis, Jacob (March 4, 2023). "Monroe-Moreno elected NV Dems chair, ousts democratic socialist incumbent". The Nevada Independent.

[nvdemsplatform-5] Democratic, Nevada. "2020 Ratified Convention Platform | Blog | Nevada State Democratic Party" (PDF). Nevada State Democratic Party. Nvdems.com. Archived from the original on 2012-12-23. Retrieved 2013-01-21.

[6] Lochhead, Colton (13 June 2019). "Sisolak signs bill raising minimum wage to $12 an hour in Nevada". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 27 January 2021.

[7] Jackson, Hugh. "U.S. House passes what Nevada Legislature wouldn't: $15 minimum wage". Nevada Current. Retrieved 27 January 2021.

[8] Snyder, Riley (11 April 2019). "Lawmakers tackle bill gradually raising minimum wage to $12 by 2023, first increase in eight years". The Nevada Independent. Retrieved 27 January 2021.

[9] Snyder, Riley; Rindels, Michelle (31 May 2019). "Bill raising minimum wage to $12 by 2024 clears Senate, heads to governor". The Nevada Independent. Retrieved 27 January 2021.

[10] Sadler, John (31 May 2019). "Democrats continue to push proposals for higher minimum wage". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved 27 January 2021.

[11] "Charter and Bylaws of the Nevada State Democratic Party" (PDF). August 22, 2020.

[12] "Party Leadership". Nevada Democratic Party. Retrieved 2023-03-10.

[13] "2020-2022 Executive Board". Nevada Democratic Party. Retrieved 2021-03-10.

[14] "County Parties & Statewide Clubs", nvdems.com, retrieved 2024-07-29

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