{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-nv",
  "name": "Nevada",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/nv",
  "slug": "nv",
  "state": "nv",
  "state_name": "Nevada",
  "state_id": "us-nv"
 },
 "question": "How did Nevada vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "Jacky S. Rosen (Democrat) won by 1.6 points",
  "value": 1.6,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2024: winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "Jacky S. Rosen (Democrat) 47.9%, Sam Brown (Republican) 46.2%, None Of These Candidates (party not recorded) 3.0%",
   "1,464,728 votes for Senate candidates"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2024",
 "as_of_label": "2024",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in Nevada since 1976",
   "description": "17 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 12 and Republicans in 5.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1976,
       31.572,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1980,
       -21.414,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1982,
       -2.406,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1986,
       5.478,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1988,
       4.151,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1992,
       10.837,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1994,
       9.929,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1998,
       0.092,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2000,
       -15.399,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2004,
       25.944,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2006,
       -14.368,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2010,
       5.742,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2012,
       -1.16,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2016,
       2.429,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2018,
       5.027,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2022,
       0.777,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2024,
       1.643,
       "dem"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1976,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 201899,
    "votes": {
     "Howard W. Cannon": 127214,
     "David Towell": 63471,
     "Byron D. Young": 3619,
     "Dan Becan": 2307
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1980,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 243273,
    "votes": {
     "Paul Laxalt": 144224,
     "Mary Gojack": 92129,
     "Allen Hacker": 6920
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1982,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 235097,
    "votes": {
     "Chic Hecht": 120377,
     "Howard Cannon": 114720
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1986,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 261932,
    "votes": {
     "Harry Reid": 130955,
     "Jim Santini": 116606,
     "Kent Cromwell": 4899
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1988,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 342407,
    "votes": {
     "Richard H. Bryan": 175548,
     "Chic Hecht": 161336,
     "James Frye": 5523
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1992,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 495887,
    "votes": {
     "Harry Reid": 253150,
     "Demar Dahl": 199413,
     "Joe S. Garcia Jr.": 11240,
     "Lois Avery": 7279,
     "H. Kent Cromwell": 7222,
     "Harry Tootle": 4429
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1994,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 380530,
    "votes": {
     "Richard H. Bryan": 193804,
     "Hal Furman": 156020,
     "Anna Nevenich": 6666,
     "Bob Days": 5964,
     "Neal A. Grasteit": 5450
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1998,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 435864,
    "votes": {
     "Harry Reid": 208621,
     "John E. Ensign": 208220,
     "Michael Cloud": 8129,
     "Michael E. Williams": 2781
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2000,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 600250,
    "votes": {
     "John Ensign": 330687,
     "Ed Bernstein": 238260,
     "None Of These Candidates": 11503,
     "Kathryn Rusco": 10286,
     "J. J. Johnson": 5395,
     "Ernie Berghof": 2540,
     "Bill Grutzmacher": 1579
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2004,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 810068,
    "votes": {
     "Harry Reid": 494805,
     "Richard Ziser": 284640,
     "Thomas L. Hurst": 9559,
     "David K. Schumann": 6001,
     "Gary Marinch": 2095
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2006,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 582572,
    "votes": {
     "John Ensign": 322501,
     "Jack Carter": 238796,
     "David K. Schumann": 7774,
     "Brendan Trainor": 5269
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2010,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 721404,
    "votes": {
     "Harry Reid": 362785,
     "Sharron Angle": 321361,
     "Other Candidates": 16197,
     "Scott Ashjian": 5811,
     "Michael L. Haines": 4261,
     "Tim Fasano": 3185,
     "Jesse Holland": 3175,
     "Jeffrey C. Reeves": 2510,
     "Wil Stand": 2119
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2012,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 997805,
    "votes": {
     "Dean Heller": 457656,
     "Shelley Berkley": 446080,
     "David Lory Vanderbeek": 48792
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2016,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1108294,
    "votes": {
     "Catherine Cortez Masto": 521994,
     "Joseph J. Heck": 495079,
     "None Of The Above": 42257,
     "Tom Jones": 17128,
     "Thomas \"tom\" Sawyer": 14208,
     "Tony Gumina": 10740,
     "Jarrod M. Williams": 6888
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2018,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 972132,
    "votes": {
     "Jacky Rosen": 490071,
     "Dean Heller": 441202,
     "None Of These Candidates": 15303,
     "Barry Michaels": 9269,
     "Tim Hagan": 9196,
     "Kamau A. Bakari": 7091
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2022,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1020850,
    "votes": {
     "Catherine Cortez Masto": 498316,
     "Adam Paul Laxalt": 490388,
     "Candidates None Of These": 12441,
     "Barry Lindemann": 8075,
     "Neil Scott": 6422,
     "Barry Rubinson": 5208
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2024,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1464728,
    "votes": {
     "Jacky S. Rosen": 701105,
     "Sam Brown": 677046,
     "None Of These Candidates": 44380,
     "Janine Hansen": 21316,
     "Chris Cunningham": 20881
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2024",
    "Jacky S. Rosen (D) 47.9%",
    "Sam Brown (R) 46.2%",
    "1.6 pts",
    "1,464,728"
   ],
   [
    "2022",
    "Catherine Cortez Masto (D) 48.8%",
    "Adam Paul Laxalt (R) 48.0%",
    "0.8 pts",
    "1,020,850"
   ],
   [
    "2018",
    "Jacky Rosen (D) 50.4%",
    "Dean Heller (R) 45.4%",
    "5.0 pts",
    "972,132"
   ],
   [
    "2016",
    "Catherine Cortez Masto (D) 47.1%",
    "Joseph J. Heck (R) 44.7%",
    "2.4 pts",
    "1,108,294"
   ],
   [
    "2012",
    "Dean Heller (R) 45.9%",
    "Shelley Berkley (D) 44.7%",
    "1.2 pts",
    "997,805"
   ],
   [
    "2010",
    "Harry Reid (D) 50.3%",
    "Sharron Angle (R) 44.5%",
    "5.7 pts",
    "721,404"
   ],
   [
    "2006",
    "John Ensign (R) 55.4%",
    "Jack Carter (D) 41.0%",
    "14.4 pts",
    "582,572"
   ],
   [
    "2004",
    "Harry Reid (D) 61.1%",
    "Richard Ziser (R) 35.1%",
    "25.9 pts",
    "810,068"
   ],
   [
    "2000",
    "John Ensign (R) 55.1%",
    "Ed Bernstein (D) 39.7%",
    "15.4 pts",
    "600,250"
   ],
   [
    "1998",
    "Harry Reid (D) 47.9%",
    "John E. Ensign (R) 47.8%",
    "0.1 pts",
    "435,864"
   ],
   [
    "1994",
    "Richard H. Bryan (D) 50.9%",
    "Hal Furman (R) 41.0%",
    "9.9 pts",
    "380,530"
   ],
   [
    "1992",
    "Harry Reid (D) 51.0%",
    "Demar Dahl (R) 40.2%",
    "10.8 pts",
    "495,887"
   ],
   [
    "1988",
    "Richard H. Bryan (D) 51.3%",
    "Chic Hecht (R) 47.1%",
    "4.2 pts",
    "342,407"
   ],
   [
    "1986",
    "Harry Reid (D) 50.0%",
    "Jim Santini (R) 44.5%",
    "5.5 pts",
    "261,932"
   ],
   [
    "1982",
    "Chic Hecht (R) 51.2%",
    "Howard Cannon (D) 48.8%",
    "2.4 pts",
    "235,097"
   ],
   [
    "1980",
    "Paul Laxalt (R) 59.3%",
    "Mary Gojack (D) 37.9%",
    "21.4 pts",
    "243,273"
   ],
   [
    "1976",
    "Howard W. Cannon (D) 63.0%",
    "David Towell (R) 31.4%",
    "31.6 pts",
    "201,899"
   ]
  ]
 },
 "api": {
  "now": "/data/places/us-nv/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}