- Lead
- 35,619
- Total
- 87,149
- vs nation
- R+39.4
Nevada 17th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 30,986
- Total
- 81,974
- vs nation
- R+42.3
- Lead
- 26,236
- Total
- 66,664
- vs nation
- R+41.4
- Lead
- 18,349
- Total
- 61,706
- vs nation
- R+33.6
- Lead
- 11,783
- Total
- 61,792
- vs nation
- R+26.3
- Lead
- 18,254
- Total
- 55,277
- vs nation
- R+30.6
- Lead
- 13,641
- Total
- 42,577
- vs nation
- R+32.6
- Lead
- 7,213
- Total
- 37,277
- vs nation
- R+27.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+40.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 143,7642024 5-year
- Population density
- 7.3 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 19,666 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $82,4912024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 73.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+52.7 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+48.9 in 1984MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 2, OR · twin score 93.2
presidential history
Party record book
Nevada 17th 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
Jimmy Carter1976
42.4%
7,231 votes · R+9.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 39.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
74.1%
11,170 votes · R+48.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 73.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
24,783votes
28.4% of the vote · R+40.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 24,304 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
60,402votes
69.3% of the vote · R+40.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 55,290 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
Jimmy Carter1976
−11.8pts D vs U.S.
Place R+9.7 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1992 · −20.0 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+42.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+37.8 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +41.4 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R | 2.7%1,482 | 97.3%54,393 | 55,875 |
| 2020 | R | 28.9%22,108 | 71.1%54,471 | 76,579 |
Nevada 17th State Senate District sits in the desert Southwest. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 52.7 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 48.9 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 40.9 points.
A population of 143,764, a 74% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $82,491 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 2 and Legislative (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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