Nevada Assembly District 37
Tue, Nov 3 · Represented by Shea Backus Democratic · Member list as of Oct 28
No published poll names both candidates.Last result · 2024 general: Shea Backus (D) 51.3, David Brog (R) 48.7
- Last election
- Shea Backus (Democratic) won by 2.6 points, 2024
- On the 2026 ballot
- 2 candidates
Side by side
Left column: BackusRight column: Douglass
- Donor-based spectrum
- LiberalCentristConservativeBackusNo published score for Douglass
- Races
- Won 3 of 4
- None listed
- Years since first win
- 8
- Not available
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Candidates on the ballot
- Shea BackusIncumbentDemocratic
- Jill M. DouglassRepublican
Source: leg.state.nv.us (PDF), dated Jul 1
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History (7 elections for this seat)
- Votes for listed candidates
- 40,730
- Election day
- November 5, 2024
- District map
- Older district map (2022 to 2024)
Nevada Assembly District 37, 2012 to 2024, 2024, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticShea BackusWon Democratic 20,90151.3% RepublicanDavid Brog Republican 19,82948.7% - Votes for listed candidates
- 31,328
- Election day
- November 8, 2022
- District map
- Older district map (2022)
Nevada Assembly District 37, 2012 to 2024, 2022, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticShea BackusWon Democratic 15,81750.5% RepublicanJacob Deaville Republican 15,01147.9% LibertarianMarc Tedoff Libertarian 5001.6% - Votes for listed candidates
- 36,797
- Election day
- November 3, 2020
- District map
- Older district map (2012 to 2021)
Nevada Assembly District 37, 2012 to 2024, 2020, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanAndy MatthewsWon Republican 18,72750.9% DemocraticShea Backus(incumbent) Democratic 18,07049.1% - Votes for listed candidates
- 28,309
- Election day
- November 6, 2018
- District map
- Older district map (2012 to 2021)
Nevada Assembly District 37, 2012 to 2024, 2018, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticShea BackusWon Democratic 14,22250.2% RepublicanJim Marchant(incumbent) Republican 14,08749.8% - Votes for listed candidates
- 30,646
- Election day
- November 8, 2016
- District map
- Older district map (2012 to 2021)
Nevada Assembly District 37, 2012 to 2024, 2016, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanJim MarchantWon Republican 16,08552.5% DemocraticSean D. Lyttle Democratic 14,56147.5% - Votes for listed candidates
- 17,687
- Election day
- November 4, 2014
- District map
- Older district map (2012 to 2021)
Nevada Assembly District 37, 2012 to 2024, 2014, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanWesley DuncanWon(incumbent) Republican 10,85561.4% DemocraticGerald Mackin Democratic 6,36236.0% LibertarianLou Pombo Libertarian 4702.7% - Votes for listed candidates
- 29,265
- Election day
- November 6, 2012
- District map
- Older district map (2012 to 2021)
Nevada Assembly District 37, 2012 to 2024, 2012, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanWesley DuncanWon Republican 14,96951.1% DemocraticMarcus Conklin(incumbent) Democratic 14,29648.9%
- 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 37, election results 2012 to 2024. https://www.electionwrld.com/nv/assembly/37. Retrieved October 30, 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:37
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