2024 United States Senate election in Nevada
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The 2024 United States Senate election in Nevada was held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Nevada. Incumbent Democratic Senator Jacky Rosen narrowly won re-election to a second term, defeating Republican nominee Sam Brown. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump carried Nevada on the same ballot. Primary elections took place on June 11, 2024. Incumbent Democratic senator Jacky Rosen was running for reelection to a second term in office, facing a strong challenge from Republican author and U . Army veteran Sam Brown. Brown was endorsed by Donald Trump, who was running for the presidency up the ballot. Given Nevada's status as a crucial swing state at the federal level, a competitive race was anticipated; although, Rosen led most all of preelection polling, and almost all major news organizations and firms predicted that she was likely to win, albeit by varying levels of confidence. Come Election Day, Rosen was reelected by a narrow margin of around 1 %, an advantage of around 24,000 votes among over 1 million cast statewide. This result reflected a somewhat more competitive result than expected, according to final polling averages, and was down from her 2018 margin of around 5 points against then-incumbent Republican senator Dean Heller. Rosen received 47 % of the statewide vote to Brown's 46 %. Rosen's victory came on the same ballot in which Democrat Kamala Harris lost the state of Nevada in the concurrent presidential election by 3 %, becoming the first Democrat to do so since 2004. To compare to the presidential race, Rosen ultimately overperformed Harris by around 4 percentage points. Rosen carried two of Nevada's seventeen counties – Clark County, home to Las Vegas and its suburbs, and Washoe County, home to Reno and its suburbs – which is somewhat of a traditional result in the state, as Harris did the same in the presidential election; however, their margins differed notably. Rosen carried Clark and Washoe counties by margins of 7 % and 5 % respectively, while Harris only carried them by 2 % and 1 % respectively. Rosen received around 4,000 less raw votes than Harris, while Brown received over 74,000 less raw votes than Trump.