The Nevada general election, 2014 was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014, throughout
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 ...
.
The active political parties participated in the 2014 election were the two major political parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party as well as the minor political parties of the Independent American Party of Nevada, the Nevada Green Party, and the Libertarian Party of Nevada. There are also unaffiliated, non-partisan candidates.
United States House of Representatives
All of Nevada's four seats in the
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the Bicameralism, bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Artic ...
were up for election in 2014.
Governor
Incumbent Republican governor
Brian Sandoval ran for re-election to a second term in office and won.
He was challenged by Democratic nominee Bob Goodman, a former State Economic Development Commissioner and Independent American nominee David Lory VanDerBeek, a family therapist.
Lieutenant governor
Incumbent Republican lieutenant governor
Brian Krolicki was prevented from running for re-election to a third term in office due to constitutional lifetime term limits.
Republican primary
Candidates
* Chris Dyer
*
Mark Hutchison, state senator
*
Sue Lowden, former chairwoman of the
Nevada Republican Party
The Nevada Republican Party is the affiliate of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party in Nevada. The organization has a history that goes back to 1864. The party currently controls Nevada's Governor of Nevada, governorship, Nevad ...
, former state senator and candidate for the U.S. Senate
in 2010
Polling
Results
Democratic primary
Candidates
*
Lucy Flores, state assemblywoman
* Harley Kulkin
Results
Independent American
Candidates
* Mike Little
General election
Polling
Results
Attorney general
Incumbent
Democratic Attorney General
Catherine Cortez Masto
Catherine Marie Cortez Masto (born March 29, 1964) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the Seniority in the United States Senate, senior United States senator from Nevada, a seat she has held since 2017. A member of the Democratic Pa ...
was ineligible to run for re-election for a third term due to
term limit
A term limit is a legal restriction on the number of terms a person may serve in a particular elected office. When term limits are found in presidential and semi-presidential systems they act as a method of curbing the potential for monopoly, w ...
s from the
Constitution of Nevada. Republican attorney
Adam Laxalt defeated Democratic secretary of state
Ross Miller with 46.2% of the vote.
Until the
2022 Nevada gubernatorial election, this was the most recent time a Republican won a Nevada statewide election while carrying neither Clark nor Washoe Counties.
General election
Results
Secretary of State
Incumbent Democratic secretary of state
Ross Miller was prevented from running for re-election to a third term in office due to constitutional lifetime term limits.
As of 2023, this is the most recent statewide election in which
Mineral County was won by the Democratic candidate for public office.
Democratic
*
Kate Marshall
Kathleen Marie Marshall (née Soltero; born July 22, 1959) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 35th lieutenant governor of Nevada from 2019 to 2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party and was previously the Nevada state ...
,
Nevada State Treasurer
Republican
*
Barbara Cegavske State Senator and former state assemblywoman
General election
Polling
Results
Treasurer
Incumbent Democratic state treasurer
Kate Marshall
Kathleen Marie Marshall (née Soltero; born July 22, 1959) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 35th lieutenant governor of Nevada from 2019 to 2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party and was previously the Nevada state ...
was prevented from running for re-election to a third term in office due to constitutional lifetime term limits.
Democratic
*
Kim Wallin,
Nevada State Controller
Republican
*
Dan Schwartz, businessman and candidate for
Nevada's 4th congressional district
Nevada's 4th congressional district is a List of United States congressional districts, congressional district that was created as a result of the 2010 United States census. Located in the central portion of the state, it includes most of northe ...
in
2012
2012 was designated as:
*International Year of Cooperatives
*International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
Events January
*January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins.
* January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...
Independent American
* Kress Cave
General election
Polling
Results
Controller
Incumbent Democratic Controller
Kim Wallin was prevented from running for re-election to a third term in office due to constitutional lifetime term limits.
Democratic
Declared
*
Andrew Martin, state assemblyman
Disqualified
* Michael Schaefer, perennial candidate and former
San Diego, California
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City Councilman (disqualified by the Nevada Supreme Court because he did not meet the residency requirements)
Republican primary
Candidates
* Cort Arlint, licensed tax attorney, CPA and university accounting professor
* Barry Herr, CPA, former adjunct professor at the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Paradise, Nevada, United States. The campus is about east of the Las Vegas Strip. It was formerly part of the ...
and nominee for Controller
in 2010
*
Ron Knecht,
Regent
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of the
University of Nevada, Reno
The University of Nevada, Reno (Nevada, the University of Nevada, or UNR) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Reno, Nevada, United States. It is the state's flagship public university and prim ...
and former state assemblyman
Results
Independent American
* Tom Jones
General election
Results
State Legislature
Nevada Senate
Eleven out of twenty-one seats in the
Nevada Senate
The Nevada Senate is the upper house of the Nevada Legislature, the state legislature of U.S. state of Nevada, the lower house being the Nevada Assembly. It currently (2012–2021) consists of 21 members from single-member districts. In the pr ...
were up for election in 2014. Six of the seats were currently held by Republicans and five were held by Democrats. Democrats held a one-seat majority in the state senate. Names appearing in bold were on the November general election ballot either through winning the June 10th primary or having no primary election.
Polling
District 8
District 9
Election results
Nevada Assembly
All 42 seats in the
Nevada Assembly
The Nevada Assembly is the lower house of the Nevada Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Nevada, the upper house being the Nevada Senate. The body consists of 42 members, elected to two-year terms from single-member distri ...
were up for election in 2014. Democrats held 26 seats, Republicans held 15 seats and there was one vacancy.
State Judicial Branch
Supreme Court Seat B
Incumbent justice Kristina Pickering has filed to run for re-election without any opposition.
Supreme Court Seat D
Incumbent justice Mark Gibbons has filed to run for re-election without any opposition.
Ballot Initiatives
Intermediate Appellate Court
Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 of the 76th Session creates an intermediate appellate court between the District Court level and the Nevada Supreme Court. After passing through the 76th Session in 2011 with a vote of 48 in favor, 13 against and two excused, and the 77th Session in 2013 with a vote of 61 in favor, none against and two excused, Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 will be placed on the 2014 general election ballot for popular vote to amend the Constitution of Nevada.
The Education Initiative
The Education Initiative was on the 2014 ballot in the state of Nevada as an indirect initiated state statute. The measure seeks to implement a 2 percent margins tax on businesses in the state and requires that the proceeds of the tax be used to fund the operation of public schools in Nevada for kindergarten through grade 12. Initiative Petition No. 1 was forwarded to the Nevada Legislature from the Secretary of State's office after qualifying for the ballot for legislative action. The Legislature did not act on IP No. 1 within the framework pursuant to Article 19, section 2 of the Nevada Constitution and automatically went on the ballot in 2014.
Mining Tax
Senate Joint Resolution No. 15 of the 76th Session proposes to amend the Nevada Constitution to remove the separate tax rate and manner of assessing and distributing the tax on mines and the proceeds of mines. After passing through the 76th Session in 2011 with a vote of 40 in favor and 23 against, and the 77th Session in 2013 with a vote of 43 in favor, 19 against and one excused,
Senate Joint Resolution No. 15 will be placed on the 2014 general election ballot for popular vote to amend the Constitution of Nevada.
Margin Tax for Public Schools
References
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