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2016 United States Senate election in Nevada

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2016 United States Senate election in Nevada
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The 2016 United States Senate election in Nevada was held November 8, 2016 to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Nevada, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. The state primary election was held June 14, 2016.[1]

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Incumbent Democratic Senator Harry Reid, the Senate Minority Leader and former Senate Majority Leader, initially said he would seek re-election to a sixth term, but announced on March 26, 2015, that he would retire instead.[2][3] Democratic former State Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto defeated Republican U.S. Representative Joe Heck in the general election on November 8, 2016. Heck won sixteen of the state's seventeen counties; however, since Cortez Masto won Clark County, which comprises nearly three-quarters of the state's population, she defeated Heck statewide by almost 27,000 votes, and became the first female and first Latina senator in Nevada's history. As of 2025, this would be the last time Washoe County voted for a Republican Senate candidate.

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Democratic primary

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Candidates

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Declined

Democratic endorsements

Catherine Cortez Masto

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Results by county:
  Cortez Masto—80–90%
  Cortez Masto—70–80%
  Cortez Masto—60–70%
  Cortez Masto—50–60%
  Cortez Masto—<40%
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Republican primary

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Candidates

Declared

  • Sharron Angle, former state assemblywoman, nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2010 and candidate for NV-02 in 2006[35]
  • D'Nese Davis, artist and teacher[5]
  • Eddie Hamilton, retired auto executive and perennial candidate[5][36]
  • Joe Heck, U.S. representative[37]
  • Thomas "Sad Tom" Heck, retired air force officer[5][38]
  • Robert Leeds, author, retired Merchant Marine and perennial candidate[5]
  • Carlo "Mazunga" Poliak, retired sanitation worker and perennial candidate[5]
  • Juston Preble, sales consultant[5]
  • Bill Tarbell, retired minister and candidate for governor in 2014[5]

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Endorsements

Joe Heck

Polling

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Results by county:
  Heck—70–80%
  Heck—60–70%
  Heck—50–60%
  Heck—40–50%
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Independent American primary

Candidates

Declared

  • Tom Jones, retired businessman and perennial candidate[62]

Libertarian primary

Candidates

Declined

Independents

Candidates

Declared

  • Tony Gumina, physician and businessman[5]
  • Tom Sawyer, retired railroad worker[5]
  • G.A. Villa[5] (not on final ballot)[65]
  • Jarrod M. Williams, veteran[5][66]

General election

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Debates

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Polling

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with Harry Reid

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with Dina Titus

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with Catherine Cortez Masto

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Results

Cortez Masto won her bid to succeed Harry Reid 47% to 45%, or by 2.43%, running 0.01% better than Hillary Clinton.[122]

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By congressional district

Cortez Masto won two of four congressional districts, with the remaining two going to Heck, including one that elected a Democrat.[124]

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  1. Key:
    A – all adults
    RV – registered voters
    LV – likely voters
    V – unclear
  2. "Someone else" with 3%
  3. "Neither" with 3%
  4. "Neither" with 4%
  5. "Someone else" with 3%
  6. "Some other candidate" with 7%
  7. Jones (IA) with 4%
  8. "Neither" with 2%
  9. "Neither" with 4%
  10. "Someone else" with 4%
  11. Jones (IA) with 3%; Gumina (I) with 2%; Sawyer (I) with 1%; Williams (I) with <1%
  12. "Refused" with 2%
  13. "Other/None" with 8%
  14. "Refused" with 2%; Gumina (I) with 1%; Jones (IA) with 1%; Sawyer (I) with 1%; Williams (I) with <1%
  15. "Some other candidate" with 6%
  16. "Some other candidate" with 4%
  17. Jones (IA) with 4%
  18. "Refused" with 3%; Gumina (I) with 1%; Jones (IA) with 1%; Sawyer (I) with 1%
  19. "Someone else" with 4%
  20. "Some other candidate" with 6%
  21. "Some other candidate" with 5%
  22. Jones (IA) with 5%; "Other" with 1%

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  1. Poll conducted for 8 News NOW.
  2. Poll conducted for Breitbart News Network, a far-right news outlet.
  3. Poll conducted for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
  4. Poll conducted for KTNV-TV.
  5. Poll conducted for the Senate Leadership Fund, a Super PAC dedicated to electing a Republican majority in the U.S. Senate.
  6. Poll conducted for End Citizens United.
  7. Poll conducted for Cortez Masto's campaign.
  8. Poll conducted for Democracy Corps, a non-profit organization associated with the Democratic Party.
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