Nevada Governor

Tue, Nov 3 · Governor Joe Lombardo Republican since Jan 2023

3 candidates on the printed ballot. Sorted by last name.

Average of 2 polls, Sep 22 to Oct 25, from VoteHub · how it’s calculatedAlso in the average: Aaron Ford 43Newest · Noble Predictive Insights, field dates Sep 22 to Sep 26, released Oct 6, 800 registered votersPolls fetched Oct 30, 2:02 a.m. ET, from VoteHub

Lombardo 41.5Ford 7

Polls over time

2 polls, through Election Day Nov 3

Each dot is one published poll. The thick line is the 7-week average, not a forecast. How it’s calculated. All polls. Polls fetched Oct 30, 2:02 a.m. ET, from VoteHub.

The polls in this chart (2)

1 poll released in the last 14 days · latest results range from 2.4–7% (I) and 38–42% (R) (newest 2 polls on the chart)

Each dot is a poll that names the candidate, 2 of the 7 for this race. Dots and lines follow the field end date. The table adds the day each poll was released.

Polls shown in the chart, newest field end date first, with the day each was released
Pollster	Field dates	Released	Sample	Ford	Lombardo
Noble Predictive Insights	Sep 22 to Sep 26	Oct 6	800 registered voters	7	38
Emerson College	Sep 5 to Sep 8	Sep 10	680 likely voters	2.4	42

Polls left off the chart (5 of 7)

Polls for this race that are not on the chart, with the reason for each
Poll	Why it is not on the chart
Hart Research AssociatesOct 20 to Oct 25	Names fewer than two candidates on this ballot (lists Joe Lombardo, Aaron Ford)
Noble Predictive InsightsMar 10 to Mar 13	Names fewer than two candidates on this ballot (lists Joe Lombardo, Aaron Ford)
Hart Research AssociatesFeb 11 to Feb 17	Names fewer than two candidates on this ballot (lists Joe Lombardo, Aaron Ford)
Emerson CollegeNov 16 to Nov 18	Names fewer than two candidates on this ballot (lists Joe Lombardo, Aaron Ford)
Noble Predictive InsightsOct 7 to Oct 13	Names fewer than two candidates on this ballot (lists Joe Lombardo, Aaron Ford)

What changed in this race

Newest first

Oct 27
NEW POLLNevada Governor
Nevada Governor: Aaron Ford 49, Joe Lombardo 45
Hart Research Associates, Oct 20 to Oct 25, 950 likely voters · via VoteHub (CC BY 4.0)

All changes

More about this race

Candidates on the ballot

Aaron D. FordDemocratic
Danielle FordIndependent
Joe LombardoIncumbentRepublican

Source: clarkcountynv.gov (PDF), dated Oct 7

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Official results for Nevada

History (5 elections for this seat)

Votes for listed candidates: 1,004,191
Election day: November 8, 2022

Governor, Nevada, 2022, every candidate
Candidate	Party	Votes and share	Share
RepublicanJoe LombardoWon	Republican	497,37749.5%	49.5%
DemocraticSteve Sisolak(incumbent)	Democratic	481,99148.0%	48.0%
LibertarianBrandon Davis	Libertarian	14,9131.5%	1.5%
OtherEd Bridges	Independent American Party	9,9101.0%	1.0%

Votes for listed candidates: 952,934
Election day: November 6, 2018

Governor, Nevada, 2018, every candidate
Candidate	Party	Votes and share	Share
DemocraticSteve SisolakWon	Democratic	480,00750.4%	50.4%
RepublicanAdam Paul Laxalt	Republican	440,32046.2%	46.2%
IndependentRyan Bundy	Independent	13,8911.5%	1.5%
OtherRuss Best	Independent American Party	10,0761.1%	1.1%
LibertarianJared Lord	Libertarian	8,6400.9%	0.9%

Votes for listed candidates: 547,349
Election day: November 4, 2014

Governor, Nevada, 2014, every candidate
Candidate	Party	Votes and share	Share
RepublicanBrian SandovalWon(incumbent)	Republican	386,34070.6%	70.6%
DemocraticBob Goodman	Democratic	130,72223.9%	23.9%
Independent[NONE Of These]	No Party Affiliation	15,7512.9%	2.9%
IndependentDavid Lory Vanderbeek	Independent	14,5362.7%	2.7%

Votes for listed candidates: 716,529
Election day: November 2, 2010

Governor, Nevada, 2010, every candidate
Candidate	Party	Votes and share	Share
RepublicanBrian SandovalWon	Republican	382,35053.4%	53.4%
DemocraticRory Reid	Democratic	298,17141.6%	41.6%
Independent[NONE Of These]	No Party Affiliation	12,2311.7%	1.7%
IndependentGino Disimone	Independent	6,4030.9%	0.9%
OtherFloyd Fitzgibbons	Independent American Party	5,0490.7%	0.7%
LibertarianArthur Forest Lampitt Jr.	Libertarian	4,6720.7%	0.7%
GreenDavid Scott Curtis	Green	4,4370.6%	0.6%
IndependentAaron Y. Honig	Independent	3,2160.4%	0.4%

Votes for listed candidates: 582,158
Election day: November 7, 2006

Governor, Nevada, 2006, every candidate
Candidate	Party	Votes and share	Share
RepublicanJim GibbonsWon	Republican	279,00347.9%	47.9%
DemocraticDina Titus	Democratic	255,68443.9%	43.9%
Independent[NONE Of These]	No Party Affiliation	20,6993.6%	3.6%
OtherChristopher H. Hansen	Independent American Party	20,0193.4%	3.4%
GreenCraig O. Bergland	Green	6,7531.2%	1.2%

All rows: Cha, Kuriwaki and Snyder, Candidates in American General Elections, version 3.1 (2006-2023 governor rows), retrieved Oct 28, 2026

Governor races before 2006 are not loaded yet.

Data notes (15)

Source priority per race: (1) a state election office's own certified results parsed in scripts/data/gov_results.py (NJ Division of Elections PDFs, Virginia Department of Elections, the Civera ElectionStats databases run by CT, VA, VT, CO, NY, NM and SC, the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, the NC State Board of Elections archive); (2) the open Cha/Kuriwaki/Snyder 'Candidates in American General Elections' file (Harvard Dataverse, CC0), which copies each state's statement of vote; (3) OpenElections county files and the 2020 Dataverse official-results tables, used only to add named candidates the Dataverse file omitted and to add the write-in count; (4) MEDSL precinct sums, used the same way and only when their Democratic and Republican totals agree with the Dataverse rows to 0.3 percent. Each race's source is listed in web/data/sources/gov-results.json.
total is the sum of the candidate rows in the file, and pct is votes divided by that total, rounded to one decimal. Blank, void, over and under votes are never in total. Write-in votes are in total as a 'Write-ins' row (writein: true) wherever a source reports them: the official databases, OpenElections, and MEDSL precinct returns. The Dataverse file leaves write-ins out, so MEDSL's write-in sum is added when MEDSL's count for every named candidate equals the Dataverse count exactly (for example AK 2022, 784 write-ins, and AL 2022, 9,432, both matching the state's statement of vote). Each race's source ids are in the race's source and sourceAlso fields and in the gov-results-<st> entry of sources.json.
151 races not taken from a state's own results file have no write-in row. Either the state counted no write-ins, or the sources on file leave them out (MEDSL's precinct sums did not match every named candidate exactly, or MEDSL has no file for that year); where they were left out, total is short by the write-ins and pct can run slightly above the state's printed percentage: AK 2006, AK 2010, AK 2014, AL 2006, AL 2010, AL 2014, AL 2018, AR 2006, AR 2014, AR 2018, AR 2022, AZ 2002, AZ 2014, AZ 2022, CA 2014, CA 2018, CA 2022, DE 2008, DE 2012, DE 2016, DE 2020, DE 2024, GA 2014, GA 2018, HI 2006, HI 2010, HI 2014, HI 2018, HI 2022, IA 2006, IA 2010, IA 2014, ID 1998, ID 2006, ID 2010, ID 2022, IL 2010, IL 2014, IL 2018, IN 2004, IN 2008, IN 2012, IN 2016, IN 2020, KS 2006, KS 2010, KS 2014, KS 2018, KS 2022, KY 2007, KY 2011, KY 2015, KY 2019, LA 2007, LA 2011, LA 2015, LA 2019, LA 2023, MD 2006, MD 2014, MD 2022, ME 2006, ME 2010, ME 2014, ME 2022, MI 2006, MI 2010, MI 2014, MI 2022, MN 2006, MN 2010, MN 2014, MO 2020, MS 2007, MS 2011, MS 2015, MS 2019, MS 2023, MT 2000, MT 2004, MT 2008, MT 2012, MT 2016, MT 2020, MT 2024, ND 2008, NE 2006, NE 2010, NE 2014, NE 2018, NE 2022, NH 2008, NH 2010, NH 2012, NH 2014, NH 2024, NM 2010, NV 2006, NV 2010, NV 2014, NV 2018, NV 2022, OH 2014, OH 2018, OK 2006, OK 2010, OK 2014, OK 2018, OK 2022, OR 2006, OR 2010, OR 2014, OR 2018, OR 2022, PA 2002, PA 2006, PA 2010, PA 2014, PA 2018, PA 2022, RI 2006, RI 2010, RI 2014, SC 2006, SD 2006, SD 2010, SD 2014, SD 2018, SD 2022, TX 2014, TX 2018, TX 2022, UT 2008, UT 2010, UT 2012, UT 2020, WA 2008, WA 2012, WA 2016, WI 2006, WI 2010, WI 2014, WI 2018, WV 2008, WV 2011, WV 2012, WV 2016, WV 2020, WV 2024, WY 2002, WY 2006.
party is D, R, I, L, G, O or N from the party label in the source; party_label keeps the source's wording. The Dataverse file prints short labels (Lbt, Grn, Const, DFL, NPA); those are expanded to Libertarian, Green, Constitution, Democratic-Farmer-Labor and No Party Affiliation. Fusion candidates (NY, CT, SC, and the Democratic-Progressive line in VT) are one candidate with all of their ballot lines added together.
Names: the Dataverse file stores 'LAST, FIRST MIDDLE (NICKNAME), SUFFIX'; the display name uses the nickname when there is one (Josh Shapiro, Bob Riley) and otherwise the given names. All-caps source names were title-cased by rule and can be wrong for internal capitals (DiGiulio, DeWine). Official lists that print only surnames (NJ 1997; MA tickets from 2010 on) take the full name from the Dataverse row of the same race where the surname and party match, otherwise stay surname-only.
incumbent is true or false only for races built from the Dataverse file (it carries an incumbency code; code 3, a governor who succeeded to the office, is treated as incumbent). It is null for official-source races and for candidates added from OpenElections or MEDSL.
Louisiana uses an open primary with a runoff. One race per election is stored: the round that decided it (the October primary when someone won more than 50 percent, otherwise the November runoff, marked runoff:true). Exact dates for those rounds come from the Dataverse/official files where present and are set in the script otherwise (LA_DATES); check them before showing a date.
Recall elections (Wisconsin June 2012, California September 2021) are not included. Only regular and special general elections for the office are stored; primaries and runoff primaries are not.
scripts/data/federal_results.py, if it is re-run, rewrites every web/data/results/governor/{ST}.json to []. Run scripts/data/gov_results.py after it, or remove build_governor() from that script.
NV: No governor general-election result in this file for 4 of 9 expected election years between 1990 and 2025: 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002. No open or official bulk source was found and parsed for them yet; they are gaps, not zeroes.
2014: built from the Dataverse candidates file only; no second source agreed with it at candidate level, so a minor-party candidate who is missing from that file would be missing here too
2022: candidates added from MEDSL precinct sums (not certified totals; can differ slightly from the official count): Brandon Davis, Ed Bridges
Candidate name is the sitting governor's officials-file spelling for 16 rows (the race's winner, same state, race within the governor's tenure, same surname and a compatible first name). Text encoding and casing are repaired by scripts/data/names.py.
Governor races earlier than the first year listed are not loaded yet for 50 states (AK from 2006; AL from 2006; AR from 2002; AZ from 2002; CA from 2002; CO from 1990; CT from 1990; DE from 2008; FL from 1990; GA from 2002; HI from 2006; IA from 2002; ID from 1994; IL from 2006; IN from 2004; KS from 2006; KY from 2007; LA from 2007; MA from 1990; MD from 2006; ME from 2006; MI from 2006; MN from 2006; MO from 2008; MS from 2007; MT from 2000; NC from 1992; ND from 2008; NE from 2006; NH from 2006; NJ from 1993; NM from 2002; NV from 2006; NY from 1994; OH from 2002; OK from 2006; OR from 2006; PA from 2002; RI from 2006; SC from 2006; SD from 2006; TN from 2002; TX from 1994; UT from 2008; VA from 1993; VT from 1990; WA from 2008; WI from 2006; WV from 2000; WY from 2002). The sources on file start later; nothing was filled in from memory. Each governor page says so under History.
1 duplicate candidate rows merged: a 0-vote placeholder row beside the real row is dropped. governor/CO 2022 Paul Noël Fiorino