- Lead
- 7,094
- Total
- 84,765
- vs nation
- R+6.9
Nevada 18th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,049
- Total
- 76,974
- vs nation
- R+11.0
- Lead
- 4,423
- Total
- 60,479
- vs nation
- R+9.4
- Lead
- 2,204
- Total
- 53,950
- vs nation
- R+7.9
- Lead
- 281
- Total
- 50,475
- vs nation
- R+6.7
- Lead
- 6,096
- Total
- 43,356
- vs nation
- R+11.6
- Lead
- 3,569
- Total
- 30,320
- vs nation
- R+12.3
- Lead
- 1,543
- Total
- 20,860
- vs nation
- R+15.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+8.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 147,3452024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,059 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 36.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $100,0322024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 52.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 11.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 20.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+46.9 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+44.5 in 1980MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 5, NV · twin score 75.8
presidential history
Party record book
Nevada 18th 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
49.1%
24,794 votes · D+0.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 47.0%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
70.5%
8,946 votes · R+43.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 68.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
38,107votes
45.0% of the vote · R+8.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 35,146 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
45,201votes
53.3% of the vote · R+8.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 40,195 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
−6.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+0.6 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · −6.9 pts
Republican
Ronald Reagan1980
+34.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+44.5 · U.S. R+9.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · +25.0 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Anchored in the urban core of Clark County, this district posts some of Nevada's wider Democratic margins, reflecting a dense, majority-minority population that has voted consistently left of the statewide average in recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 46.9 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 44.5 points in 1980. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.4 points.
A population of 147,345, a 53% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $100,032 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 5 and State Senate District 6.
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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Nevada 18th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/32018/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.