- Lead
- 915
- Total
- 37,227
- vs nation
- D+3.9
Nevada 8th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,071
- Total
- 31,617
- vs nation
- D+8.4
- Lead
- 3,014
- Total
- 19,965
- vs nation
- D+13.0
- Lead
- 3,442
- Total
- 18,076
- vs nation
- D+15.2
- Lead
- 4,032
- Total
- 17,006
- vs nation
- D+16.4
- Lead
- 1,342
- Total
- 14,158
- vs nation
- D+11.9
- Lead
- 1,082
- Total
- 9,933
- vs nation
- D+10.4
- Lead
- 936
- Total
- 6,861
- vs nation
- D+5.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+2.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 74,3472024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,934 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 18.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $96,5872024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 32.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 11.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 18.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+63.8 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+26.7 in 1980MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 9, NV · twin score 98.9
presidential history
Party record book
Nevada 8th State House 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
60.9%
10,361 votes · D+23.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 58.7%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
60.2%
2,314 votes · R+22.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1980 · 58.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
18,778votes
50.4% of the vote · D+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 17,555 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
17,863votes
48.0% of the vote · D+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 13,484 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
+16.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+23.7 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +15.2 pts
Republican
Ronald Reagan1980
+17.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+26.7 · U.S. R+9.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · +4.1 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Assembly District 8 sits in the Las Vegas metro and has tracked closely with statewide trends, returning a Democratic presidential margin of just 2.5 points in 2024 — making it a reliable bellwether for competitive Nevada contests.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 63.8 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 26.7 points in 1980. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 10.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 2.5 points.
A population of 74,347, a 32% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $96,587 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 9 and Assembly District 35.
The state-house 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 8th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/32008/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.