- Lead
- 58,696
- Total
- 421,166
- vs nation
- R+12.5
Nevada 2nd Congressional District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 44,284
- Total
- 401,969
- vs nation
- R+15.5
- Lead
- 44,412
- Total
- 333,857
- vs nation
- R+15.4
- Lead
- 26,997
- Total
- 301,390
- vs nation
- R+12.8
- Lead
- 839
- Total
- 294,143
- vs nation
- R+7.0
- Lead
- 43,145
- Total
- 264,666
- vs nation
- R+13.8
- Lead
- 42,900
- Total
- 209,745
- vs nation
- R+21.0
- Lead
- 18,767
- Total
- 187,636
- vs nation
- R+18.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+13.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 776,8792024 5-year
- Population density
- 12 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 65,066 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $85,2472024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 62.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 23.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+60.7 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+42.0 in 1980MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Congressional District 5, CA · twin score 85.2
presidential history
Party record book
Nevada 2nd Congressional District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1972–2024 · 14 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
49.0%
143,986 votes · D+0.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 44.4%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
69.4%
87,743 votes · R+41.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 68.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
176,316votes
41.9% of the vote · R+13.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 173,063 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
235,012votes
55.8% of the vote · R+13.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 217,347 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
−7.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+0.3 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · −12.5 pts
Republican
Ronald Reagan1980
+32.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+42.0 · U.S. R+9.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · +22.9 pts
Current officeholders
Federal officeholders only. State and local officeholders are planned for the next data pass.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each result reflects the U.S. House district as it was drawn for that election; redistricting has redrawn these lines over time, so they can differ from the current 120th-Congress district shown on the map above.
Covering most of Nevada's land area outside Las Vegas and Reno, this sprawling rural and small-city district has voted Republican by double-digit margins in recent presidential cycles, anchored by conservative communities across the high desert and rural counties.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 60.7 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 42.0 points in 1980. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 13.9 points.
A population of 776,879, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $85,247 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Congressional District 5 and Congressional District 2.
The congressional districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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Nevada 2nd Congressional District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cd/3202/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.