Nevada Assembly District 20
Tue, Nov 3 · Represented by David Orentlicher Democratic · Member list as of Oct 28
David Orentlicher 58.8Stan Vaughan 41.2
Last result · 2024 general
- Earlier results
- David Orentlicher (Democratic) won by 21.7 points, 2022David Orentlicher (Democratic) was unopposed, 2020, older linesAll 7 elections
Side by side
Left column: OrentlicherRight column: Vaughan
- Donor-based spectrum
- LiberalCentristConservativeOrentlicherVaughan
- Races
- Won 3 of 3
- Won 0 of 9
How these are counted
The spectrum is a published research score, not our rating. How this works. Wins and losses count the races in our results files, the same as each profile.
Past results
- Votes for listed candidates
- 24,187
- Election day
- November 5, 2024
- District map
- Same as today
Nevada Assembly District 20, 2012 to 2024, 2024, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticDavid OrentlicherWon Democratic 14,23258.8% RepublicanStan Vaughan Republican 9,95541.2% - Votes for listed candidates
- 17,307
- Election day
- November 8, 2022
- District map
- Same as today
Nevada Assembly District 20, 2012 to 2024, 2022, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticDavid OrentlicherWon(incumbent) Democratic 10,28759.4% RepublicanStan Vaughan Republican 6,53037.7% LibertarianJosiah L. Larow Libertarian 4902.8% - Votes for listed candidates
- 18,631
- Election day
- November 3, 2020
- District map
- Older district map (2012 to 2021)
Nevada Assembly District 20, 2012 to 2024, 2020, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticDavid OrentlicherWon Democratic 18,631100.0% - Votes for listed candidates
- 19,371
- Election day
- November 6, 2018
- District map
- Older district map (2012 to 2021)
Nevada Assembly District 20, 2012 to 2024, 2018, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticEllen SpiegelWon(incumbent) Democratic 12,02962.1% RepublicanMichael L. McDonald Republican 7,34237.9%
- 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.
All elections (7 for this seat)
- Votes for listed candidates
- 24,187
- Election day
- November 5, 2024
- District map
- Same as today
Nevada Assembly District 20, 2012 to 2024, 2024, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticDavid OrentlicherWon Democratic 14,23258.8% RepublicanStan Vaughan Republican 9,95541.2% - Votes for listed candidates
- 17,307
- Election day
- November 8, 2022
- District map
- Same as today
Nevada Assembly District 20, 2012 to 2024, 2022, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticDavid OrentlicherWon(incumbent) Democratic 10,28759.4% RepublicanStan Vaughan Republican 6,53037.7% LibertarianJosiah L. Larow Libertarian 4902.8% - Votes for listed candidates
- 18,631
- Election day
- November 3, 2020
- District map
- Older district map (2012 to 2021)
Nevada Assembly District 20, 2012 to 2024, 2020, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticDavid OrentlicherWon Democratic 18,631100.0% - Votes for listed candidates
- 19,371
- Election day
- November 6, 2018
- District map
- Older district map (2012 to 2021)
Nevada Assembly District 20, 2012 to 2024, 2018, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticEllen SpiegelWon(incumbent) Democratic 12,02962.1% RepublicanMichael L. McDonald Republican 7,34237.9% - Votes for listed candidates
- 22,355
- Election day
- November 8, 2016
- District map
- Older district map (2012 to 2021)
Nevada Assembly District 20, 2012 to 2024, 2016, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticEllen SpiegelWon(incumbent) Democratic 13,54860.6% RepublicanCarol Linton Republican 8,80739.4% - Votes for listed candidates
- 10,438
- Election day
- November 4, 2014
- District map
- Older district map (2012 to 2021)
Nevada Assembly District 20, 2012 to 2024, 2014, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticEllen SpiegelWon(incumbent) Democratic 5,66454.3% RepublicanCarol Linton Republican 4,77445.7% - Votes for listed candidates
- 21,112
- Election day
- November 6, 2012
- District map
- Older district map (2012 to 2021)
Nevada Assembly District 20, 2012 to 2024, 2012, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticEllen SpiegelWon Democratic 12,89461.1% RepublicanEric Mendoza Republican 8,21838.9%
- 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
More about this race
Source: leg.state.nv.us (PDF), dated Jul 1
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- Independent
- Nonpartisan
- More than one party
- No member listed
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Election Wrld. (2026). Nevada Assembly District 20, election results 2012 to 2024. https://www.electionwrld.com/nv/assembly/20. 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.
DataState data (JSON)Sources: State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022 (Carl Klarner, Harvard Dataverse), DIME (ODC-BY), MEDSL 2024 official precinct returnsData as of Oct 28, 2026