2018 Nevada Midterm Elections

U.S. Senate:

The incumbent: Dean Heller (Republican), a former state legislator and U.S. congressman, a member of the U.S. Senate since 2011.
 
The challenger: Jacky Rosen (Democrat), a businesswoman and current member of the U.S. House of Representatives.


Governor:

The Republican: Adam Laxalt, son and grandson of former Republican U.S. senators, the state’s current attorney general.

The Democrat: Steve Sisolak, businessman and current member of the Clark County Commission, perhaps the state’s most prominent government group.
 
Politics: Republican George W. Bush carried Nevada in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, but the state has given its electoral votes to the Democratic presidential candidate in every election since then. Hillary Clinton carried the state over Donald Trump by two points in 2016.
 
Current Republican Governor Brian Sandoval is term-limited and cannot seek reelection.

Nevada’s other U.S. senator is Catherine Cortez Masto, a Democrat.

Democrats hold three of the state’s four seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Republicans have one.

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