Nevada voters head to polls Tuesday with 80% already having cast ballots

Nevada voters will select leaders for federal, state, and local offices on Tuesday. The ballot includes contests for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, controller, and state treasurer. It also covers races for the state Supreme Court, state Senate, state Assembly, and the mayor of Henderson, along with statewide ballot measures. Federal contests for the U.S. House are also on the ballot.

Polls close at 7 p.m. local time, which is 10 p.m. Eastern Time. State law requires polling places to remain open until every voter in line at closing time has cast a ballot. The Associated Press will provide vote results and declare winners once it determines a trailing candidate cannot close the gap.

Approximately 1 million votes were cast in the 2022 U.S. Senate race in Nevada. About 80% of those ballots were submitted early or by absentee vote. Every county is expected to release at least some early in-person or mail voting results at the start of election night. Nearly every county will release all or almost all in-person early voting results in the first update. About half of the counties will not release any in-person Election Day results in that first update.

In Clark and Washoe counties, the first update typically includes all early in-person voting results and partial mail voting results. In-person Election Day results follow in subsequent updates. The AP’s advance vote tracker provides the latest totals for early and absentee ballots cast in the state.

The first results from the 2024 general election were reported at 12:54 a.m. Eastern Time on Nov. 6. That was about three hours after polls closed. The state reached 50% of votes reporting less than 10 minutes later, at 1:02 a.m. Eastern Time. Ninety percent of votes were reporting by 8:26 p.m. Eastern Time that day.

The AP does not make projections. It declares a winner only when no scenario allows a trailing candidate to close the gap. If a race is not called, the AP will continue covering developments such as candidate concessions or victory declarations. It will clarify that it has not declared a winner and explain why.

Recounts in Nevada are not automatic. A candidate may request and pay for a recount regardless of the vote margin. The AP may declare a winner in a race subject to a recount if the lead is too large for a recount or legal challenge to change the outcome.