This year’s filing deadline for candidates running for Congress in Nevada was March 15, 2024.
Twenty-two candidates are running for Nevada’s four U.S. House districts, including five Democrats and 17 Republicans. That’s 5.5 candidates per district, less than the 8.25 candidates per district in 2022, the 10.0 candidates per district in 2020, and the 10.5 candidates in 2018.
Here are some other highlights from this year’s filings:
- The 22 candidates running in Nevada this year are the fewest number of candidates since 2014 when 19 candidates ran.
- No seats are open this year, meaning all incumbents are running for re-election. There were two House seats open in 2018 and one in 2016, the only two election cycles this decade in which House seats were open.
- Nine candidates—two Democrats and seven Republicans—are running for the 3rd Congressional District, the most candidates running for a seat in Nevada this year.
- Six primaries—two Democratic and four Republican—are contested this year, tying with 2014 for the fewest this decade.
- Three incumbents—two Democrats and one Republican—are facing primary challengers this year. That’s the same number of incumbents who faced primary challengers in 2022, but less than the four incumbents who faced primary challengers in 2020.
- The 2nd Congressional District is guaranteed to Republicans because no Democrats filed to run. Republicans filed to run in every district, meaning none are guaranteed to Democrats.
Nevada and three other states—Maine, North Dakota, and South Carolina—are holding primaries on June 11.
In Nevada, the winner of the primary election is the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes, even if they do not win more than 50 percent of the vote.
