Three Democratic incumbents in the Las Vegas Valley were locked in close races with GOP challengers, while Republican Rep. Mark Amodei easily won a second term.
The Associated Press declared Amodei the winner over Democrat Elizabeth Mercedes Krause and two third-party candidates.
During this time, Democratic incumbents in Congress were facing significant challenges.
In Nevada Congressional District 1, Henderson businessman Mark Robertson, a Republican and retired Army colonel running in his first election, was challenging Rep. Dina Titus, who was running for a seventh term in Congress. Ken Cavanaugh, a libertarian, was also running.
Titus received 50.3% of the vote after early votes were counted, followed by Robertson with 47.4% and Cavanaugh with 2.4 percent.
The number of mail-in ballots still to be counted is unknown and has not yet been received.
In a statement, Titus acknowledged that there were still votes to count, but he stated: We are optimistic about where things are headed, and I am humbled by the outpouring of support from across the district thus far.
It was too close to call the 3rd District race.
In the “swing district,” which encompasses the Las Vegas suburbs of Summerlin and Spring Valley, GOP real estate lawyer April Becker was attempting to challenge Democratic incumbent Rep. Susie Lee. Republicans were hoping for an upset there.
Lee said in a statement that election officials have said that counting ballots could take days. We continue to wait patiently despite our eagerness to learn the election results.
Lee was barely ahead of Becker, 50.4 percent to 49.6 percent, after some early votes were counted.
In their bid to take control of the House of Representatives, Republicans were hoping that a “red wave” and historical midterm trends that favor the opposition party would enable them to eliminate a Democratic seat in Nevada.
At the national level, Republicans only need to flip five seats to regain the gavel they lost in the 2018 midterm elections under Trump.
D-Nevada Rep. Steven Horsford, was expected by election analysts to do better than his Democratic colleagues in the Las Vegas Valley in Nevada Congressional District 4, but he still had a tough race against Air Force veteran Sam Peters.
After counting the early votes, Horsford led by 51.6% to 48.4%.Parts of Clark County, Nye County, and other rural areas in the central part of the state are included in the district.
