The 1986 Nevada gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 1986. Incumbent Democrat

Richard Bryan Richard Hudson Bryan (born July 16, 1937) is an American retired politician and attorney who served as the 25th Governor of Nevada from 1983 to 1989 and as a United States Senator representing Nevada from 1989 until 2001. A Democrat, Bryan pr ...

won re-election to a second term as

Governor of Nevada A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of a state's official representative. Depending on the type of political region or polity, a ''governor'' ma ...

, defeating Republican nominee Patty Cafferata.

Democratic primary

Candidates

, incumbent governor of Nevada *Herb Tobman

Results

Republican primary

Candidates

* Patty Cafferata, state treasurer *Jim Stone *Joni Wines *M.L. "Smokey" Stover *Robert A. Swartz

Results

General election

Candidates

(D), incumbent governor of Nevada * Patty Cafferata (R), state treasurer *Lou Tomburello (L)

Results

County results

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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* Pershing * Washoe

References

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Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the seventh-most extensive, th ...

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