Lombardo Faces Six Challengers in Nevada Election Results Primary
Nevada election results center on Joe Lombardo facing six Republican challengers in Tuesday’s primary, while six Democrats competed for their party’s nomination to try to reclaim the governor’s seat in November. The ballot also included U.S. House races, state offices and Henderson’s mayoral contest.
Polls were set to close at 7 p.m. PT, which is 10 p.m. ET. Clark County usually supplies about 69% of the statewide vote, and Washoe County about 18%, giving those two counties outsized weight in the governor’s race and the congressional contests on the same ballot.
Joe Lombardo and Aaron Ford
Lombardo entered the primary after winning the governorship in 2022 by 1.5 percentage points over Steve Sisolak. On the Democratic side, the field included Attorney General Aaron Ford and Washoe County Commissioner Alexis Hill, two candidates trying to take advantage of a governor’s race that has drawn the most campaign advertising this cycle.
Nevada has no presidential or U.S. Senate race on the ballot this year, which leaves the governor’s contest at the center of the primary. That also puts more attention on the state’s usual turnout pattern, with Clark County and Washoe County shaping the result far more than the rest of the state.
Henderson Mayor Michelle Romero
Henderson held a mayoral election with Michelle Romero seeking a second term against four challengers, including former Henderson police Chief Hollie Chadwick. If no candidate won a majority, the top two finishers would advance to a runoff in the November general election.
That race gave local voters a separate decision from the statewide contests, but it followed the same primary-day timeline. The mayor’s field was one of the few other named contests on a ballot that also stretched across state offices and the congressional map.
Nevada's 2nd District
Mark Amodei did not seek an eighth full term in Nevada’s 2nd District, opening a Republican primary that drew former state Sen. James Settelmeyer, financial adviser and small business owner David Flippo, and 11 others. Trump endorsed Flippo, while Amodei’s seat remained one of the most closely watched Republican contests on the ballot.
Amodei won reelection in 2024 with 55% of the vote, and Trump carried the district with about 56% of the vote. The seats held by Democrats Dina Titus, Susie Lee and Steven Horsford were expected to be more competitive, and Horsford faced no primary opposition in the 4th District.
About half of Nevada’s 21 state Senate seats and all 42 state House seats were also on the ballot, with Democrats holding both chambers of the Legislature. For voters, the immediate consequence is simple: the primary decides who reaches November in the offices that will shape Nevada’s next cycle of governing and redistricting decisions.
