Nevada Assembly District 15
Tue, Nov 3 · Represented by Howard Watts Democratic (not a candidate in 2026) · Member list as of Oct 28
One candidate on the printed ballot.
- Last election
- Howard Watts (Democratic) won by 19.8 points, 2024
- On the 2026 ballot
- 1 candidate
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Candidates on the ballot
UncontestedOpen seat
One candidate on the printed ballot. The current holder, Howard Watts, is not on the candidate list.
- Miguel DavilaDemocratic
Source: leg.state.nv.us (PDF), dated Jul 1
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History (7 elections for this seat)
- Votes for listed candidates
- 18,743
- Election day
- November 5, 2024
- District map
- Older district map (2022 to 2024)
Nevada Assembly District 15, 2012 to 2024, 2024, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticHoward WattsWon Democratic 10,92958.3% RepublicanMelissa Lynn Spence Republican 7,22438.5% LibertarianJordy Prado Libertarian 5903.1% - Votes for listed candidates
- 12,158
- Election day
- November 8, 2022
- District map
- Older district map (2022)
Nevada Assembly District 15, 2012 to 2024, 2022, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticHoward WattsWon(incumbent) Democratic 7,60262.5% RepublicanSteven D. Bang Republican 4,55637.5% - Votes for listed candidates
- 20,444
- Election day
- November 3, 2020
- District map
- Older district map (2012 to 2021)
Nevada Assembly District 15, 2012 to 2024, 2020, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticHoward WattsWon(incumbent) Democratic 13,23464.7% RepublicanStan Vaughan Republican 7,21035.3% - Votes for listed candidates
- 14,066
- Election day
- November 6, 2018
- District map
- Older district map (2012 to 2021)
Nevada Assembly District 15, 2012 to 2024, 2018, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticHoward WattsWonName as filed: Howard Watts III Democratic 9,34766.5% RepublicanStan Vaughan Republican 4,71933.5% - Votes for listed candidates
- 17,086
- Election day
- November 8, 2016
- District map
- Older district map (2012 to 2021)
Nevada Assembly District 15, 2012 to 2024, 2016, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticElliot AndersonWon(incumbent) Democratic 12,01470.3% RepublicanStan Vaughan Republican 5,07229.7% - Votes for listed candidates
- 7,761
- Election day
- November 4, 2014
- District map
- Older district map (2012 to 2021)
Nevada Assembly District 15, 2012 to 2024, 2014, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticElliot T. AndersonWon(incumbent) Democratic 4,69160.4% RepublicanBenjamin Donlon Republican 2,62033.8% LibertarianRoberto S. Juarez Libertarian 4505.8% - Votes for listed candidates
- 16,390
- Election day
- November 6, 2012
- District map
- Older district map (2012 to 2021)
Nevada Assembly District 15, 2012 to 2024, 2012, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticElliot T. AndersonWon(incumbent) Democratic 11,80972.0% RepublicanMegan Heryet Republican 4,58127.9%
- 2024: MEDSL 2024 official precinct returns (individual_states zips), retrieved Oct 28, 2026. Compiled by MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL) from official returns; not an official source
- 2012 to 2022: State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022 (Carl Klarner, Harvard Dataverse), retrieved Oct 28, 2026. Compiled by Carl Klarner (Harvard Dataverse) from official returns; not an official source
Last contest in this district on file: 2024.
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Election Wrld. (2026). Nevada Assembly District 15, election results 2012 to 2024. https://www.electionwrld.com/nv/assembly/15. Retrieved October 31, 2026.
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Sources: Census TIGERweb Legislative MapServer (120th CDs layer 0, 119th CDs layer 4, 2026 SLD upper layer 1 and lower layer 2) (US Census Bureau, public domain), retrieved Oct 28, 2026; Open Civic Data division identifiers (census_autogenerated us_sldl/us_sldu and openstates state files); also (sld-recent.json): Open Civic Data division identifiers (country-us) (CC0 (repository); also (sld-recent.json): CC0 1.0), retrieved Oct 28, 2026; Open States people (current) CSVs (CC0-1.0 (Open States people data)), retrieved Oct 28, 2026, compiled by Open States volunteers and staff (rosters from state legislature sites) from official returns, not an official source; MEDSL 2024 official precinct returns (individual_states zips) (Not stated in the GitHub repository (an earlier label said "MIT (repo)", which the repository does not support). MEDSL's Harvard Dataverse records are CC0 1.0, but these GitHub files were not checksum-matched to the Dataverse files, so CC0 is not claimed for them.), retrieved Oct 28, 2026, compiled by MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL) from official returns, not an official source; State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022 (Carl Klarner, Harvard Dataverse) (CC0 1.0), retrieved Oct 28, 2026, compiled by Carl Klarner (Harvard Dataverse) from official returns, not an official source.
District id: ocd-division/country:us/state:nv/sldl:15
DataState data (JSON)Sources: State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022 (Carl Klarner, Harvard Dataverse), MEDSL 2024 official precinct returnsData as of Oct 28, 2026