The 2024 United States Senate election in Nevada was held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Nevada. Incumbent Democratic Senator Jacky Rosen narrowly won re-election to a second term, defeating Republican nominee Sam Brown. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump carried Nevada on the same ballot. Primary elections took place on June 11, 2024.
Incumbent Democratic senator Jacky Rosen was running for reelection to a second term in office, facing a strong challenge from Republican author and U.S. Army veteran Sam Brown. Brown was endorsed by Donald Trump, who was running for the presidency up the ballot. Given Nevada's status as a crucial swing state at the federal level, a competitive race was anticipated; although, Rosen led most all of preelection polling, and almost all major news organizations and firms predicted that she was likely to win, albeit by varying levels of confidence.
Come Election Day, Rosen was reelected by a narrow margin of around 1.7%, an advantage of around 24,000 votes among over 1.46 million cast statewide. This result reflected a somewhat more competitive result than expected, according to final polling averages, and was down from her 2018 margin of around 5 points against then-incumbent Republican senator Dean Heller. Rosen received 47.9% of the statewide vote to Brown's 46.2%. Rosen's victory came on the same ballot in which Democrat Kamala Harris lost the state of Nevada in the concurrent presidential election by 3.1%, becoming the first Democrat to do so since 2004.
To compare to the presidential race, Rosen ultimately overperformed Harris by around 4.8 percentage points. Rosen carried two of Nevada's seventeen counties â Clark County, home to Las Vegas and its suburbs, and Washoe County, home to Reno and its suburbs â which is somewhat of a traditional result in the state, as Harris did the same in the presidential election; however, their margins differed notably. Rosen carried Clark and Washoe counties by margins of 7.3% and 5.8% respectively, while Harris only carried them by 2.6% and 1.0% respectively. Rosen received around 4,000 less raw votes than Harris, while Brown received over 74,000 less raw votes than Trump.
A typical swing state, Nevada is considered to be a purple state at the federal level, especially since in the 2016 United States presidential election, when Hillary Clinton carried Nevada by about two percentage points. Both parties have seen success in the state in recent years. Democrats control both U.S. Senate seats, majorities in both state legislative chambers, and all but one seat in its congressional delegation, while Republicans flipped the governorship and lieutenant governorship in 2022.
As of 2024, no Republican has won any U.S. Senate race in Nevada since 2012. This race was considered to be highly competitive given the state's nearly even partisan lean; however, most polls and ratings showed Rosen to be the favorite to win.
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Jacky Rosen vs. Jim Marchant<br />
Jacky Rosen vs. Jeff Gunter<br />
Rosen won three of four congressional districts.
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