- Lead
- 22,711
- Total
- 99,592
- vs nation
- R+21.3
Nevada 20th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 20,268
- Total
- 89,500
- vs nation
- R+27.1
- Lead
- 17,900
- Total
- 69,265
- vs nation
- R+27.9
- Lead
- 14,450
- Total
- 61,770
- vs nation
- R+27.2
- Lead
- 10,944
- Total
- 57,137
- vs nation
- R+26.4
- Lead
- 16,556
- Total
- 50,426
- vs nation
- R+30.4
- Lead
- 10,488
- Total
- 35,081
- vs nation
- R+30.4
- Lead
- 5,916
- Total
- 23,596
- vs nation
- R+33.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+22.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 148,7732024 5-year
- Population density
- 36 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 4,179 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $91,0822024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 69.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+17.9 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+67.2 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 1, AZ · twin score 89.3
presidential history
Party record book
Nevada 20th 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
39.5%
22,569 votes · R+19.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 37.8%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
79.0%
12,256 votes · R+59.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 76.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
37,584votes
37.7% of the vote · R+22.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 33,806 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
60,295votes
60.5% of the vote · R+22.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 54,074 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
Kamala Harris2024
−21.3pts D vs U.S.
Place R+22.8 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1992 · −25.6 pts
Republican
Ronald Reagan1980
+49.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+59.1 · U.S. R+9.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · +42.1 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Nevada SD-20 has posted double-digit Democratic presidential margins in recent cycles, reflecting a dense, majority-minority electorate concentrated in the Las Vegas metropolitan core where Latino and Black voters make up a substantial share of the district's 148,773 residents.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 17.9 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 67.2 points in 1928. The 2024 margin was 22.8 points.
A population of 148,773, a 69% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $91,082 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 1 and State Senate District 28.
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 20th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/32020/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.