The Nevada State Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Nevada. It has been chaired by Daniele Monroe-Moreno since March 2023.

It is currently the state's favored party, controlling all but one of Nevada's four United States House of Representatives seats, both United States Senate seats, three out of six statewide offices, and both houses of the Nevada Legislature. However, the party does not control the statewide offices of the Governor of Nevada, Lieutenant governor of Nevada, and Nevada State Controller, which are currently held by the Nevada Republican Party Joe Lombardo, Stavros Anthony, and Andy Matthews, respectively.

History The state of Nevada has had 22 political parties over the years.Hal K. Rothman. The Making of Modern Nevada. Fall 2010. September 8, 2011. Only six of these parties lasted up until the 2004 elections. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party remain as the top two in the state.

With the help of Abraham Lincoln in 1864, Nevada became the 36th state in America. Lincoln's Republican influence was considerable among the Nevada state citizens during his presidency. The first two general elections in Nevada, held in 1864 and 1867, were dominated by the Republican Party. In 1871, the Democratic Party started to gain momentum and won four of the six constitutional offices: governor, lieutenant governor, state treasurer and attorney general.

Towards the beginning of the 1900s, the Silver Party was formed, bringing many Republicans and Democrats together from the western states. The party was so-named because of the federal government's shortage of silver coins in 1873. The Silver Party played a prominent role in Nevada's politics in the 1894 and 1898 elections. The Silver Party later formed the Silver Democratic Party. The Silver Democratic Party was prominent in Nevada until the election of 1906. After the election of 1906, the Democratic and Republican parties became the two primary parties in Nevada.

During the Great Depression of 1929, the two primary parties split many constitutional and federal offices. After the Great Depression, the citizens of Nevada preferred the Democratic Party over the Republican Party. Democrats were well received by Nevada and won most of the statewide and federal races from 1932 until 1995.

March 2021 staffing incident

In March 2021, The Intercept reported on a five-year intra-party conflict in the Nevada Democratic Party, waged between supporters of former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and members of the party's progressive wing since the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries. Following sweeping gains of leadership positions by progressive candidates backed by the local Democratic Socialists of America chapter on March 6, the entire Nevada Democratic Party staff resigned, taking severance for themselves and diverting the rest of the party's coffers to the reelection of Senator Catherine Cortez Masto. On March 4, 2023, a "unity" slate of candidates were elected, ending the era of DSA dominance.

Platform and structure The current platform for the party was ratified in 2020. The topics that are covered include the military, veterans, healthcare, civil rights, education, elections and government, voting rights, environment and energy, foreign policy, jobs and the economy, and working Nevadans.

A priority for Nevada Democrats in the 2010s and 2020s has been increasing the minimum wage. In 2019, Democratic governor Steve Sisolak signed a bill passed by a Democratic legislature to raise Nevada's minimum wage to $12 an hour.

The party has a formal set of by-laws that form the party structure. These by-laws contain nine articles with many sections in each article.

Executive Board

Chair: Daniele Monroe-Moreno 1st Vice-Chair: Daniel Corena 2nd Vice-Chair: Francisco Morales Secretary: Travis Brock Treasurer: Leilani Hinyard

National Committee Representatives

National Committeeman: Alex Goff National Committeewoman: Allison Stephens

Current Democratic officeholders The Nevada Democratic Party controls three of the state's six statewide offices, a majority in the Nevada Senate, and a majority in the Nevada Assembly. Democrats also hold both of the state's U.S. Senate seats and three of the state's four U.S. House of Representatives seats.

Members of Congress

U.S. Senate Democrats have controlled both of Nevada's seats in the U.S. Senate since 2018:

U.S. House of Representatives Out of the four seats Nevada is apportioned in the U.S. House of Representatives, three are held by Democrats:

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Statewide offices Democrats control three of the six elected statewide offices:

State legislature Senate Majority Leader: Nicole Cannizzaro Senate President Pro Tempore: Mo Denis Assistant Senate Majority Leader: Joyce Woodhouse Senate Chief Majority Whip: Pat Spearman Senate Co-Majority Whips: Chris Brooks and Marilyn Dondero Loop Speaker of Nevada Assembly: Jason Frierson Speaker Pro Tempore of Nevada Assembly: Steve Yeager Assembly Majority Floor Leader: Teresa Benitez-Thompson Assembly Assistant Majority Floor Leader: Daniele Monroe-Moreno Assembly Majority Whip: Edgar Flores Assembly Assistant Majority Whip: Sandra Jauregui

Local groups The party has affiliate groups in localities throughout the state:

County chairs Carson City: Lewis Hardy Churchill County: Larry Jackson Clark County: Ashley Lovell Douglas County: Donna Weidner Elko County, Nevada: Steve Anderson Esmeralda County: Vacant Eureka County: Vacant Lander County: Claudio Cardoza Humboldt County: Vacant Lincoln County: Vacant Lyon County: Tony Stephenson Mineral County: Béa Whitney Nye County: Kelly Fitzpatrick Pershing County: Vacant Storey County: Vacant Washoe County: Sarah Mahler White Pine County: Vacant

Election results

Presidential +Nevada Democratic Party presidential election resultsElectionPresidential ticketVotesVote %Electoral votesResult1864George B. McClellan/George H. Pendleton6,59440.16%1868Horatio Seymour/Francis Preston Blair Jr.5,21844.61%1872Horace Greeley/Benjamin G. Brown (Liberal Republican)6,23642.57%1876Samuel J. Tilden/Thomas A. Hendricks9,30847.27%1880Winfield S. Hancock/William H. English9,61352.40%1884Grover Cleveland/Thomas A. Hendricks5,57843.59%1888Grover Cleveland/Allen G. Thurman5,14941.94%1892Grover Cleveland/Adlai E. Stevenson7146.56%1896William Jennings Bryan/Arthur Sewall8,37681.21%1900William Jennings Bryan/Adlai E. Stevenson6,34762.25%1904Alton B. Parker/Henry G. Davis3,98232.87%1908William Jennings Bryan/John W. Kern11,21245.71%1912Woodrow Wilson/Thomas R. Marshall7,98639.70%1916Woodrow Wilson/Thomas R. Marshall17,77653.36%1920James M. Cox/Franklin D. Roosevelt9,85136.22%1924John W. Davis/Charles W. Bryan5,90921.95%1928Al Smith/Joseph T. Robinson14,09043.46%1932Franklin D. Roosevelt/John N. Garner28,75669.41%1936Franklin D. Roosevelt/John N. Garner31,92572.81%1940Franklin D. Roosevelt/Henry A. Wallace31,94560.08%1944Franklin D. Roosevelt/Harry S. Truman29,62354.62%1948Harry S. Truman/Alben W. Barkley31,29150.37%1952Adlai Stevenson/John Sparkman31,68838.55%1956Adlai Stevenson/Estes Kefauver40,64042.03%1960John F. Kennedy/Lyndon B. Johnson54,88051.16%1964Lyndon B. Johnson/Hubert Humphrey79,33958.58%1968Hubert Humphrey/Edmund Muskie60,59839.29%1972George McGovern/Sargent Shriver66,01636.32%1976Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale92,47945.81%1980Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale66,66626.89%1984Walter Mondale/Geraldine Ferraro91,65531.97%1988Michael Dukakis/Lloyd Bentsen132,73837.92%1992Bill Clinton/Al Gore189,14837.36%1996Bill Clinton/Al Gore203,97443.93%2000Al Gore/Joe Lieberman279,97845.98%2004John Kerry/John Edwards397,19047.88%2008Barack Obama/Joe Biden533,73655.15%2012Barack Obama/Joe Biden531,37352.36%2016Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine539,26047.92%2020Joe Biden/Kamala Harris703,48650.06%2024Kamala Harris/Tim Walz705,19747.49%

Gubernatorial +Nevada Democratic Party gubernatorial election resultsElectionGubernatorial candidateVotesVote %Result18641870Lewis R. BradleyWon 187418781882Jewett W. Adams7,77054.32%Won 1886Jewett W. Adams5,86947.59%Lost 1890Theodore Winters5,79146.73%Lost 1894Theodore Winters6786.47%Lost 1898George Russell2,05720.55%Lost 1902Endorsed John Sparks (Silver)N/AN/ADid not run1906Endorsed John Sparks (Silver)N/AN/ADid not run1910Denver S. Dickerson8,79842.66%Lost 1914Emmet D. Boyle9,62344.65%Won 1918Emmet D. Boyle12,87552.08%Won 1922James G. Scrugham15,43753.88%Won 1926James G. Scrugham14,52147.00%Lost 1930Charles L. Richards16,19246.75%Lost 1934Richard Kirman Sr.23,08853.94%Won 1938Edward P. Carville28,52861.86%Won 1942Edward P. Carville24,50560.26%Won 1946Vail Pittman28,65557.42%Won 1950Vail Pittman26,16442.36%Lost 1954Vail Pittman36,79746.90%Lost 1958Grant Sawyer50,86459.92%Won 1962Grant Sawyer64,78466.84%Won 1966Grant Sawyer65,87047.84%Lost 1970Mike O'Callaghan70,69748.10%Won 1974Mike O'Callaghan114,11467.38%Won 1978Robert E. Rose76,36139.68%Lost 1982Richard Bryan128,13253.30%Won 1986Richard Bryan187,26871.92%Won 1990Bob Miller207,87864.81%Won 1994Bob Miller200,02652.68%Won 1998Jan Laverty Jones182,28142.04%Lost 2002Joe Neal110,93522.01%Lost 2006Dina Titus255,68443.92%Lost 2010Rory Reid298,17141.61%Lost 2014Bob Goodman130,72223.88%Lost 2018Steve Sisolak480,00749.39%Won 2022Steve Sisolak481,99147.30%Lost

References

External links Nevada State Democratic Party