- Lead
- 8,025
- Total
- 31,843
- vs nation
- D+26.7
Nevada 17th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,804
- Total
- 26,286
- vs nation
- D+29.0
- Lead
- 6,681
- Total
- 19,082
- vs nation
- D+32.9
- Lead
- 6,852
- Total
- 17,241
- vs nation
- D+35.9
- Lead
- 7,123
- Total
- 16,450
- vs nation
- D+36.0
- Lead
- 4,140
- Total
- 13,247
- vs nation
- D+33.7
- Lead
- 2,995
- Total
- 9,388
- vs nation
- D+31.4
- Lead
- 2,074
- Total
- 6,576
- vs nation
- D+23.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+25.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 73,7832024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,664 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 27.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $84,6912024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 25.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 26.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 31.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+87.0 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+5.0 in 1980MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 7, NV · twin score 97.8
presidential history
Party record book
Nevada 17th 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
70.6%
11,608 votes · D+43.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 68.9%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
48.8%
1,642 votes · R+0.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1980 · 46.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
19,635votes
61.7% of the vote · D+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 17,222 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
11,610votes
36.5% of the vote · D+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 8,418 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
+36.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+43.3 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +35.9 pts
Republican
Ronald Reagan1980
−4.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+5.0 · U.S. R+9.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · −18.2 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Nevada 17th State House District sits in the desert Southwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 87.0 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 5.0 points in 1980. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 25.2 points.
A population of 73,783, a 26% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $84,691 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 7 and Assembly District 6.
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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