Election Name: | 2020 Nevada elections |
Country: | Nevada |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2018 Nevada elections |
Previous Year: | 2018 |
Next Election: | 2022 Nevada elections |
Next Year: | 2022 |
Registered: | 1,822,166 |
Turnout: | 77.26% |
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Nevada on November 3, 2020.[1] To vote by mail, registered Nevada voters must ensure each ballot is postmarked by November 3 and received by November 10, 2020.
See main article: 2020 United States presidential election in Nevada. Incumbent Republican President Donald Trump was challenged by Democratic nominee Joe Biden in 2020.[1] Prior to election day, news outlets and polls predicted Nevada to have a slight lean towards Biden. Nevada has six electoral votes in the Electoral College.[2]
See main article: 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada. Nevada has four congressional districts that elect four delegates to the U.S. House of Representatives.[1] Since the 2016 elections, three representatives have been Democratic.
See main article: 2020 Nevada State Senate election. 10 of the 21 seats of the Nevada Senate were up for election.[1] Democrats have retained a majority control of the senate since 2017.
See main article: 2020 Nevada Assembly election. All 42 seats of the Nevada Assembly were up for election.[1] Democrats have retained a majority control of the assembly since 2017.
Two seats on the Nevada Supreme Court were up for election.
Election Name: | 2020 Nevada Supreme Court Seat B election |
Country: | Nevada |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2014 Nevada Supreme Court Seat B election |
Previous Year: | 2014 |
Next Election: | 2026 Nevada Supreme Court Seat B election |
Next Year: | 2026 |
Candidate1: | Kristina Pickering |
Party1: | Nonpartisan politician |
Popular Vote1: | 905,541 |
Percentage1: | 77.43% |
Candidate2: | None of these candidates |
Popular Vote2: | 263,976 |
Percentage2: | 22.57% |
Nevada Supreme Court Justice | |
Before Election: | Kristina Pickering |
Before Party: | Nonpartisan politician |
After Election: | Kristina Pickering |
After Party: | Nonpartisan politician |
Incumbent justice Kristina Pickering ran for re-election. Justice Pickering was the only candidate to receive over 50% in the primary election, making her the only candidate to move onto the general election, where she was re-elected unopposed.
Election Name: | 2020 Nevada Supreme Court Seat D election |
Country: | Nevada |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2014 Nevada Supreme Court Seat D election |
Previous Year: | 2014 |
Next Election: | 2026 Nevada Supreme Court Seat D election |
Next Year: | 2026 |
Candidate1: | Douglas W. Herndon |
Party1: | Nonpartisan politician |
Popular Vote1: | 557,584 |
Percentage1: | 45.37% |
Candidate2: | Ozzie Fumo |
Party2: | Nonpartisan politician |
Popular Vote2: | 445,871 |
Percentage2: | 36.28% |
Candidate3: | None of these candidates |
Popular Vote3: | 225,623 |
Percentage3: | 18.36% |
Nevada Supreme Court Justice | |
Before Election: | Mark Gibbons |
Before Party: | Nonpartisan politician |
After Election: | Douglas W. Herndon |
After Party: | Nonpartisan politician |
Incumbent justice Mark Gibbons chose to retire and not run for re-election.[4]
One seat on the Nevada Court of Appeals was up for election.
Incumbent Judge Bonnie Bulla was appointed by Governor Steve Sisolak in 2019 to replace Abbi Silver, who was elected to the Nevada Supreme Court in 2018.[8] Judge Bulla ran for re-election to serve out the remainder of Justice Silver's term, ending in 2022.
On the ballot were five statewide questions for Nevada Constitution amendments. The first one appears to be rejected while the four other questions are approved.
Question 2 repeals the struck-down same-sex marriage ban, replacing it with a gender-neutral formulation.
"Guarantee specific voting rights to all qualified and registered voters in the State."
"Require, beginning in calendar year 2022, that all providers of electric utility services who sell electricity to retail customers for consumption in Nevada generate or acquire incrementally larger percentages of electricity from renewable energy resources so that by calendar year 2030 not less than 50 percent of the total amount of electricity sold by each provider to its retail customers in Nevada comes from renewable energy resources."