Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026 | 2 a.m.
These are the authorities Legislature races that volition look connected Southern Nevadans' ballots. We connection our choices successful italics.
Incumbents are denoted with an asterisk (*).
Assembly District 2
Kamilah Bywaters (D)
Drew Teitelbaum (R)
Kamilah Bywaters is simply a staunch advocator for younker and acquisition — a dependable that is sorely needed successful the legislature of a authorities that consistently ranks adjacent the bottommost successful K-12 nationalist education. Her hostile is simply a MAGA extremist who served successful the archetypal Trump administration.
Assembly District 3
Selena Torres-Fossett (D)*
Joseph Silvestri (R)
Assembly District 4
Eileen Eady (D)
Lisa Cole (R)*
Assembly District 5
Brittney Miller (D)*
Kelly Quinn (R)
Assembly District 6
Jovan Alexander Jackson (D)*
Katherine “Katie” Duncan (NPP)
Assembly District 7
Cameron “C.H.” Miller (D)
Anthony Scott “Red” Willett (L)
Assembly District 8
Duy Nguyen (D)*
Joseph “Joey” Charafi (R)
Assembly District 9
Ryan Hampton (D)
Erica Alejandra Neely (R)
Credit to Erica Neely for putting unneurotic a 56-page papers detailing her positions connected assorted argumentation matters. Unfortunately, overmuch of the papers demonstrates that Neely is either ignorant oregon a liar. For example, Neely claims that Nevada’s Question 6 “would let third-trimester abortions adjacent erstwhile the parent is steadfast and the babe is viable.” Yet the connection of Question 6 is wide that abortions whitethorn lone beryllium performed until fetal viability unless “in the nonrecreational judgement of an attending supplier of wellness care, is medically indicated to support the beingness oregon carnal oregon intelligence wellness of the large individual.” Either Neely hasn’t work the amendment oregon is choosing to beryllium dishonest. Both are disqualifying.
Assembly District 12
Max Carter II (D)*
Nancy “Nan” Roecker (R)
Assembly District 13
Daniel Andrews (D)
Brian Hibbetts (R)*
Gage Beck (L)
Assembly District 16
Cecelia González (D)*
John Carlo (R)
Assembly District 18
Venicia Considine (D)*
Crystal Newton (R)
Assembly District 19
Jason Patchett (R)*
Zackaraih Lysaght (L)
Assembly District 20
David Orentlicher (D)*
Stan Vaughan (I)
Assembly District 21
Elaine Marzola (D)*
Patsy Carvalho (R)
Tighe Galvin (L)
Assembly District 22
Shenea Booth (D)
Melissa Hardy (R)*
Melissa Hardy has earned our endorsement successful the past. But Shenea Booth is among the astir breathtaking candidates we’ve seen successful years. As a world-class athlete, signifier performer and small-business owner, Booth brings a unsocial knowing of communities and issues that are indispensable to Nevada’s occurrence but often underrepresented successful Carson City.
Assembly District 23
No endorsement
Jan Allen Aspelund (D)
Denise Daniels Fanning (R)
Assembly District 29
Alex Pereszlenyi (D)
Joe Ludwig (R)
Assembly District 34
Hanadi Nadeem (D)*
Brandon Davis (R)
Assembly District 35
Joe Spica (D)
Rebecca Edgeworth (R)*
Assembly District 36
Jon Penn Junejo (D)
Gregory Hafen II (R)*
Assembly District 37
Shea Backus (D)*
Jill Douglass (R)
Assembly District 41
Vinny Spotleson (D)
Kelly Chapman (R)
Assembly District 42
Tracy Brown-May (D)*
Christopher Brandlin (R)
Senate District 8
Marilyn Dondero Loop (D)*
George Harris (R)
Senate District 9
Melanie Scheible (D)*
Maria Thompson (R)
Senate District 12
Julie Ann Pazina (D)*
Rafael Arroyo (R)
Senate District 20
Calvin Sandoval (D)
Danielle Gallant (R)
A newcomer to electoral authorities who is unrelated to the erstwhile Nevada politician with whom helium shares a surname, Calvin Sandoval sharpened his teeth arsenic a plumber, pipefitter and national steward. Sandoval’s working-class credentials, combined with his opponent’s expanding willingness to align with the astir extremist and dishonest factions of the GOP, has earned him our endorsement.
Senate District 21
James Ohrenschall (D)*
Al Rojas (R)
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