Nevada Republican Party Explained

Nevada Republican Party
Colorcode:
  1. B52527
Chairperson:Michael J. McDonald
Leader1 Title:Governor
Leader1 Name:Joe Lombardo
Leader2 Title:Lieutenant Governor
Leader2 Name:Stavros Anthony
Leader3 Title:Senate Minority Leader
Leader3 Name:Heidi Gansert
Leader4 Title:Assembly Minority Leader
Leader4 Name:P. K. O'Neill
Foundation:1864
Seats1 Title:Statewide Executive Offices
Seats2 Title:Nevada Senate
Seats3 Title:Nevada Assembly
Seats4 Title:U.S. Senate
Seats5 Title:U.S. House of Representatives
Colors: Red
Membership Year:2022
Membership:663,415[1]
National:Republican Party
Headquarters:3652 South Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada 89502
Website:NevadaGOP.org
State:Nevada

The Nevada Republican Party is the affiliate of the Republican Party in Nevada. The organization has a history that goes back to 1864. The party currently controls Nevada's governorship, controllership, and lieutenant governorship, which are currently held by Joe Lombardo, Andy Matthews, and Stavros Anthony respectively.

History

Nevada was founded as a state on October 31, 1864.[2] When the state was first formed it was a Republican state.[3] Some speculate that this was because of Nevadans' loyalty to the president who brought them into the Union, Abraham Lincoln. In the first two general elections all the constitutionally elected positions went to the Republicans. This changed starting in 1871 when four out of the six constitutional positions were won by the Democrats.

In the general elections of 1894 and 1898 the Silver Party, a party created to go against European and Eastern American bankers, swept the election.[4] Nevada first held a primary election in 1910. In 1929 the offices were split evenly between the Democratic and Republican Parties. This was the turning point though.[5] Once the Great Depression hit the elections from 1932 to the 1990s the Democratic Party held the majority throughout the state.

In 1994 and in 1998 the Republicans were the majority in the state. In 2002 Republicans swept all of the offices in Nevada. In the 2004 election Nevada was considered a battleground state because the difference between the two parties that year was 4,431. Throughout much of Nevada's political history it has been seen as a battleground state. Since 1992 the state has gone back and forth between Republican and Democratic candidates for the presidency. In the elections of 1992 and 1996 the state voted for the Democratic candidate, in 2000 and 2004 they voted for the Republican candidate, and finally in the 2008 election the state voted for the Democrats.[6] This is primarily because of the rise of the Latino population.[7] Nevada was expected to be a battleground state in the presidential election in 2012 as well.[8]

On June 23, 2018, President Donald Trump addressed the 2018 Nevada Republican Party State Convention in Las Vegas.[9]

2020 election and aftermath

In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, the Nevada GOP supported Donald Trump's false claims of fraud and attempts to overturn the election results in the state after Joe Biden was declared the victor.[10] On November 3, 2020, the state GOP and the Trump campaign attempted to slow down the processing of mail-in ballots in Clark County, claiming that the county wasn't abiding by state law in allowing people to observe the processing of ballots.[11] Soon after, Nevada Republicans made false claims surrounding the results in the county.[12] [13]

On November 5, the Nevada Republican Party alleged "at least 3,062 instances of voter fraud". Republican lawyers released a list of over 3,000 people who allegedly did not live in Clark County, Nevada, when they voted. However, these were not proven to be illegal votes, because Nevada (a) allows for people who moved states 30 days before the election to vote in Nevada's election, and (b) allows people studying in colleges in another state to vote in Nevada's election. Additionally, the list featured military members who were overseas and voted by mail.

On November 17, 2020, Nevada Republican representatives of the Trump campaign asked a judge to nullify Biden's 33,596-vote margin, and simply declare Trump the winner and his electors elected, citing unsubstantiated claims of fraud.[14] However, on November 24, the Nevada Supreme Court certified Biden as the winner of the state.[15] On December 4, 2020, the Nevada GOP vowed to appeal the certification of Biden's victory and overturn his win in the state.[16] On December 14, hours after Nevada's six electors cast the state's electoral votes for Biden, Nevada Republican electors unofficially cast their symbolic votes for Trump. The Nevada GOP expressed support for the unofficial electors and alleged that there was fraud in the Nevada election.[17]

In April 2021, the Nevada GOP censured Republican secretary of state Barbara Cegavske, accusing her of failing to investigate allegations of fraud in the 2020 election. Cegavske responded by saying that members of her party were attacking her for refusing to "put my thumb on the scale of democracy" and said that there was no evidence of widespread fraud in the election.[18] In June 2021, the Nevada GOP expressed approval of the controversial Arizona audit and have considered whether they can enact a similar audit for the 2020 Nevada election.[19]

By-laws

The By-laws of the Nevada Republicans were amended on December 13, 2008. Article one says the name of the organization. Article two describes its purpose. The purpose of this political organization is to provide leadership, recruit, develop, and elect officials. It wants to provide a responsible representative government. It also wants to keep the rights and freedom for all citizens. Article three discusses the duties and the headquarters of this organization. This article goes into details about how conventions should be held. Article four provides the rules and regulations for the meetings. These rules describe everything from when meetings should be held, how voting works, where these meetings are held, and everything in between. Article five discusses membership in this organization. The first is that the members must be part of the Republican Party. They then go into the elected officials for the party. Article six goes into details about the officers for the organization and their specific duties that those positions have. Article seven discusses elections while section eight talks about the standing committees and their responsibilities.

Article nine talks about the Republican organization and how it associates with it. Article ten goes into the voting and proxies in the Nevada State Republican party by-laws. Article eleven discusses the executive committee, its membership and its duties. Article twelve goes into detail about the requirements for the committees and the conventions. Article thirteen talks about amendments to the by-laws, particularly how to make amendments to the by-laws. Article fourteen discusses parliamentary authority while article fifteen talks about election laws. Finally article sixteen goes into details about how the organization should support candidates. It will not recognize any candidate who has been convicted of a felony or, while serving in a public office was impeached and convicted or removed from office for any reason, unless the Nevada Republican Central Committee or a Convention of theNevada Republican Party shall waive this rule by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the members or delegates present.[20]

Current elected officials

The Nevada Republican Party controls three of the state's six statewide offices and the Republicans are the minority in both the Nevada Senate and the Nevada Assembly. Republicans hold none of the state's U.S. Senate seats and one of its four U.S. House of Representatives seats.[21] [22] [23]

Members of Congress

U.S. Senate

Both of Nevada's U.S. Senate seats have been held by Democrats since 2019. Dean Heller was the last Republican to represent Nevada in the U.S. Senate. First appointed in 2011 following the resignation of John Ensign, Heller won a full term in 2012 and lost re-election in 2018.

U.S. House of Representatives

Out of the four seats Nevada is apportioned in the U.S. House of Representatives, one is held by a Republican:

!District!Member!Photo
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Statewide offices

Republicans control three of the six elected statewide offices:

Joe Lombardo

Stavros Anthony

Andy Matthews

State legislative leaders

James Settelmeyer

Robin L. Titus

State Senate

Republican members of the Nevada Senate:

State Assembly

Republican members of the Nevada State Assembly:

Executive Board

Chairman: Michael J. McDonald

Vice Chairman: Jim DeGraffenreid III

Secretary: Barbara Hawn

Treasurer: Michael Bertrand

National Committeeman: Lee Hoffman

National Committeewoman: Sigal Chattah

Election results

Presidential

Nevada Republican Party presidential election results!Election!Presidential Ticket!Votes!Vote %!Electoral votes!Result
1864Abraham Lincoln/Andrew Johnson9,82659.84%
1868Ulysses S. Grant/Schuyler Colfax6,48055.39%
1872Ulysses S. Grant/Henry Wilson8,41357.43%
1876Rutherford B. Hayes/William A. Wheeler10,38352.73%
1880James A. Garfield/Chester A. Arthur8,73247.60%
1884James G. Blaine/John A. Logan7,19356.21%
1888Benjamin Harrison/Levi P. Morton7,08857.73%
1892Benjamin Harrison/Whitelaw Reid2,81125.84%
1896William McKinley/Garret Hobart1,93818.79%
1900William McKinley/Theodore Roosevelt3,84937.75%
1904Theodore Roosevelt/Charles W. Fairbanks6,86456.66%
1908William Howard Taft/James S. Sherman10,77543.93%
1912William Howard Taft/Nicholas M. Butler3,19615.89%
1916Charles E. Hughes/Charles W. Fairbanks12,12736.40%
1920Warren G. Harding/Calvin Coolidge15,47956.92%
1924Calvin Coolidge/Charles G. Dawes11,24341.76%
1928Herbert Hoover/Charles Curtis18,32756.54%
1932Herbert Hoover/Charles Curtis12,76430.59%
1936Alf Landon/Frank Knox11,92327.19%
1940Wendell Willkie/Charles L. McNary21,22939.92%
1944Thomas E. Dewey/John W. Bricker24,61145.38%
1948Thomas E. Dewey/Earl Warren29,35747.26%
1952Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard Nixon50,50261.45%
1956Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard Nixon56,04957.97%
1960Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.52,38748.84%
1964Barry Goldwater/William E. Miller56,09441.42%
1968Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew73,18847.46%
1972Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew115,75063.68%
1976Gerald Ford/Bob Dole101,27350.17%
1980Ronald Reagan/George H. W. Bush155,01762.54%
1984Ronald Reagan/George H. W. Bush188,77065.85%
1988George H. W. Bush/Dan Quayle206,04058.86%
1992George H. W. Bush/Dan Quayle175,82834.73%
1996Bob Dole/Jack Kemp199,24442.91%
2000George W. Bush/Dick Cheney301,57549.52%
2004George W. Bush/Dick Cheney418,69050.47%
2008John McCain/Sarah Palin412,82742.65%
2012Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan463,56745.68%
2016Donald Trump/Mike Pence512,05845.50%
2020Donald Trump/Mike Pence669,89047.67%

Gubernatorial

Nevada Republican Party gubernatorial election results!Election!Gubernatorial candidate!Votes!Vote %!Result
1864
1870
1874
1878
1882Enoch Strother6,53545.68%Lost
1886Charles C. Stevenson6,46352.41%Won
1890Roswell K. Colcord6,60153.27%Won
1894Abner C. Cleveland3,86136.87%Lost
1898William McMillan3,54835.45%Lost
1902Abner C. Cleveland4,77842.22%Lost
1906Jason F. Mitchell5,33635.96%Lost
1910Tasker Oddie10,43550.59%Won
1914Tasker Oddie8,53739.61%Lost
1918Tasker Oddie11,84547.92%Lost
1922John H. Miller13,21546.12%Lost
1926Fred B. Balzar16,37453.00%Won
1930Fred B. Balzar18,44253.25%Won
1934Morley Griswold14,77834.52%Lost
1938John A. Fulton17,58638.14%Lost
1942Aaron V. Tallman16,16439.75%Lost
1946Melvin E. Jepson21,24742.58%Lost
1950Charles H. Russell35,60957.65%Won
1954Charles H. Russell41,66553.10%Won
1958Charles H. Russell34,02540.08%Lost
1962Oran K. Gragson32,14533.16%Lost
1966Paul Laxalt71,80752.16%Won
1970Ed Fike64,40043.81%Lost
1974Shirley Crumpler28,95917.10%Lost
1978Robert List108,09756.17%Won
1982Robert List100,10441.65%Lost
1986Patty Cafferata65,08125.00%Lost
1990Jim Gallaway95,78929.86%Lost
1994Jim Gibbons156,87541.32%Lost
1998Kenny Guinn223,89251.63%Won
2002Kenny Guinn344,00168.24%Won
2006Jim Gibbons279,00347.93%Won
2010Brian Sandoval382,35053.36%Won
2014Brian Sandoval386,34070.58%Won
2018Adam Laxalt440,32045.31%Lost
2022Joe Lombardo497,37748.08%Won

External links

Notes and References

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  2. Web site: History of Nevada . 2023-11-11 . jic.nv.gov . 2021-11-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211106194807/https://jic.nv.gov/About/History_of_Nevada/#:~:text=Nevada%20became%20the%2036th%20state,costliest%20transmission%20ever%20by%20telegraph). . live .
  3. Heller, Dean. "Political History of Nevada." : 129. nsla.nevadaculture.org/dmdocuments/NVPoliticalHistory2006.pdf (accessed October 12, 2011).
  4. nsla.nevadaculture.org/dmdocuments/NVPoliticalHistory2006.pdf
  5. Heller, Dean. "Political History of Nevada." : 130. nsla.nevadaculture.org/dmdocuments/NVPoliticalHistory2006.pdf (accessed October 12, 2011).
  6. Web site: Nevada Presidential Election Voting History - 270toWin . 2023-04-27 . 270toWin.com . 2023-04-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230427150551/https://www.270towin.com/states/Nevada . live .
  7. News: Balz . Dan . Alec . Macgillis . 2008-06-08 . Battleground States . . en-US . 2023-04-27 . 0190-8286 . 2020-07-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200708080133/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2008/06/08/GR2008060800566.html . live .
  8. "Battleground states in the 2012 presidential election", Yahoo! News, October 28, 2011, https://news.yahoo.com/battleground-states-2012-presidential-election-202631800.html, (accessed December 1, 2011).
  9. Web site: Salama . Vivian . Trump Tests His Appeal in Nevada, a State Clinton Won . 2023-04-27 . WSJ . en-US . 2020-11-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201109025940/https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-tests-his-appeal-in-nevada-a-state-clinton-won-1529798836 . live .
  10. Web site: DeHaven. Ed Komenda and James. 18 November 2020. Without evidence, Nevada GOP continues legal push to question Nevada's election integrity. 2021-10-11. Reno Gazette Journal. en-US.
  11. News: Shamsian. Jacob. 3 November 2020. The Trump campaign and Nevada Republicans are suing to try and slow down ballot processing in the state's biggest county. Business Insider. 11 October 2021. 28 October 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211028170353/https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-nevada-republicans-lawsuit-clark-county-vote-count-2020-11. live.
  12. Web site: 2020-11-08. NV GOP alleges several 'irregularities' with votes, shares unverified claims. 2021-10-11. KTNV. en. 2021-10-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20211029171251/https://www.ktnv.com/news/political/elections-local/nevada-gop-adam-laxalt-join-protests-at-clark-county-election-department. live.
  13. Web site: Valverde. Miriam. 6 November 2020. Fact-checking Republican claim of illegal votes in Nevada. 2021-10-11. Politifact. en-US. 2021-10-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20211016150924/https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/06/nevada-republican-party/fact-checking-republican-claim-illegal-votes-nevad/. live.
  14. News: Wolfe. Jan. November 17, 2020. As options dwindle, Trump allies ask court to halt Biden's win in Nevada. Reuters. October 11, 2021. December 29, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201229144437/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-nevada-lawsuit/as-options-dwindle-trump-allies-ask-court-to-halt-bidens-win-in-nevada-idUSKBN27Y06N. live.
  15. Web site: Durkee. Alison. November 24, 2020. Nevada Certifies Election Results, Making Biden's Victory Official. October 11, 2021. Forbes. December 11, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201211080059/https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/11/24/nevada-certifies-election-results-making-biden-victory-official/?sh=7370103f6b1b. live.
  16. Web site: 2021-04-21. Nevada GOP to appeal judge's refusal to nullify Biden win. 2021-10-11. AP NEWS. en. 2021-10-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20211024171337/https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-nevada-elections-c5fa164b92a2d00b3454dd5eacc80a73. live.
  17. Web site: Charns. David. 2020-12-15. Nevada Republican electors cast symbolic, meritless votes for Trump. 2021-10-11. KLAS. en-US. 2021-10-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20211028165222/https://www.8newsnow.com/news/politics/i-team-nevada-republican-electors-cast-symbolic-void-votes-for-trump/. live.
  18. Web site: Price. Michelle. 2021-04-20. Nevada GOP censures elections official who defended results. 2021-10-11. AP NEWS. en. 2021-09-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20210928202742/https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-barbara-cegavske-nevada-elections-bccf4ffe9a52dd6ebbe6e93ad0285e5a. live.
  19. Web site: Appleton. Rory. 2021-06-18. Nevada GOP likes Arizona ballot audit, but it won't happen here. 2021-10-11. Las Vegas Review-Journal. en-US. 2021-10-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20211018235132/https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/nevada-gop-likes-arizona-ballot-audit-but-it-wont-happen-here-2381685/. live.
  20. Bylaws of the NRP (2015, As Amended), http://nevadagop.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/NRP.Bylaws.28-March-2015.pdf (accessed November 5, 2020)
  21. Web site: Senate Current . 2023-04-27 . www.leg.state.nv.us . 2023-04-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230427150923/https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Legislator/A/Senate/Current . live .
  22. Nevada Republican Party, "State Assembly." Accessed October 26, 2011. http://www.nevadagop.org/leadership/state-assembly/ .
  23. Web site: Upcoming Events – Nevada Republican Party . 2023-04-27 . nevadagop.org . 2023-04-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230427151002/https://nevadagop.org/organizer/nevada-republican-party/ . live .