- Lead
- 10,013
- Total
- 32,782
- vs nation
- D+32.0
Nevada 2nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 14,153
- Total
- 32,604
- vs nation
- D+39.0
- Lead
- 14,556
- Total
- 27,709
- vs nation
- D+50.4
- Lead
- 14,380
- Total
- 25,441
- vs nation
- D+52.7
- Lead
- 14,559
- Total
- 24,330
- vs nation
- D+52.6
- Lead
- 9,595
- Total
- 19,176
- vs nation
- D+52.5
- Lead
- 6,780
- Total
- 13,554
- vs nation
- D+49.5
- Lead
- 4,559
- Total
- 9,488
- vs nation
- D+39.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+30.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 148,2282024 5-year
- Population density
- 6,992 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 21.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $46,7412024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 14.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 13.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 65.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+97.6 in 1916MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 21, NV · twin score 97.1
presidential history
Party record book
Nevada 2nd State Senate 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
79.2%
19,263 votes · D+59.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 77.6%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
38.9%
1,762 votes · D+20.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1980 · 38.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
23,006votes
70.6% of the vote · D+43.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 21,109 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
11,096votes
33.8% of the vote · D+30.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 8,853 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
George McGovern1972
+53.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+30.4 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +52.7 pts
Republican
Ronald Reagan1980
−23.9pts R vs U.S.
Place D+14.2 · U.S. R+9.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · −32.0 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Nevada 2nd State Senate District sits in the desert Southwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 97.6 points in 1916. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 12.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 30.5 points.
A population of 148,228, a 15% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $46,741 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 21 and State Senate District 7.
The state-senate 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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