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2016 General Election Results In M.V. Precincts

By VERNON ROBISON

Moapa Valley Progress

The Clark County Board of Commissioners certified the Election Department’s official Statement of Votes in a meeting held on Thursday, November 17 in Las Vegas. This document breaks down the county-wide voting results by precinct and allows specific analysis of how residents in the Moapa Valley communities voted in the 2016 General Election.

The voter turnout in Clark County was relatively high for this year’s general election at about 75 percent. Even so, that was lower than the 81 percent turnout seen in Clark County during the Presidential Election year of 2012.

Moapa Valley voters made an even stronger showing with 80 percent of registered voters showing up at the polls. That is nearly 3,477 people who voted in the greater Moapa Valley’s six voting precincts.

Many local results varied significantly from the final results both in comparison with county-wide results as well as nation-wide. In the race for President, for example, Moapa Valley voters backed the final winner. But local results ended up being contrary to the majority in Clark County and the state. In the Nevada’s U.S. Senate seat, and the race for Congressional District #4 Moapa Valley’s preferred candidates ended up losing their races.

In the Presidential race, Republican candidate Donald Trump was the clear preference for Moapa Valley voters, carrying 78 percent of the local vote. Interestingly, that was just two percentage points below what Republican candidate Mitt Romney was able to carry in Moapa Valley in 2012.

Of course, Trump ended up winning the election taking 290 Electoral votes. But Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton came out ahead of Trump in the nation-wide popular vote by a slim margin of more than 1.1 million votes. In addition, Nevada’s Electoral votes went to Clinton. This was due to results in just two out of the state’s 16 counties. The urban areas of Clark and Washoe counties tipped the scale toward Clinton. All other counties were overwhelmingly for Trump.

If Moapa Valley had decided the winner of the U.S. Senate race, it would have been Republican candidate Joe Heck by a landslide. Heck took 76 percent of the local votes. Opponent Catherine Cortez Masto (D) received only 16 percent of the Moapa Valley vote.

But Cortez Masto ended up winning the state-wide race by a razor-thin margin. Once again, this was due to the results in urban Clark County where the Democratic candidate held a margin of 81,000 votes. Clark was the only county in the state that Cortez Masto was able to carry.

Once again, local precincts departed in their elections results in the race for U.S. Congressional District 4. Virgin Valley resident Cresent Hardy (R) won overwhelming support in Moapa Valley with 80 percent of the vote. Opponent Ruben Kihuen (D) of Las Vegas garnered scarcely 13 percent of the local vote.
But Kihuen won the election by a matter of around 10,000 votes. Again, this result was due to the support Kihuen received from the urban precincts in Clark County.

Logandale and Moapa voters agreed with the final results from both state legislature races that appeared on the ballot. State Senator Pete Goicoechea received 78 percent of the local vote and won the overall election against Independent American candidate Janine Hanson with 73% of the vote. Assemblyman James Oscarson garnered 82 percent of the Logandale and Moapa voters and easily won the election against Libertarian candidate Dennis Hof with 67% of the district-wide vote.

Interestingly, local precincts differed from the final results in their choice for Clark County Commission District B. Incumbent Marilyn Kirkpatrick easily won the election with 57 percent of the county-wide vote. But she only saw 46 percent of the votes from Moapa Valley. Relatively unknown candidate Kevin Williams (R) won the majority of votes in every local precinct except one. He ended up with 54 percent of the local vote.

Overwhelming support from Moapa Valley precincts were a key component in retaining Overton resident Judy Metz in her Overton Power District Board of Directors at-large seat. Metz took 76 percent of the Moapa Valley vote. She also was able to win 40% of the vote in Virgin Valley. This gave her enough to narrowly beat her opponent David Bennett from Mesquite. It ended up being a Metz victory by a margin of only around 300 votes.

In the race for the OPD Moapa seat, Chad Leavitt won a clear victory with 58 percent of the vote. Leavitt had 228 votes while his opponent Billy Pulsipher had 166.

In the matter of the five ballot questions, the feelings of Moapa Valley voters differed dramatically, in most cases, from the final state-wide results.

In Question 1, dealing with universal background checks on private sales of firearms, local precincts rejected the measure with 84% of the voters choosing ‘No’. Statewide, however, the measure ended up passing with 50.45 percent of the vote.

Likewise, Moapa Valley voters clearly rejected the idea of legalizing recreation marijuana in the state which appeared in Question 2. Sixty-seven percent of local voters said ‘No’ to the measure. But the question passed on a state-wide level with 57 percent of the vote.

The local results on Question 3, dealing with deregulation of the power industry, came out extremely close. The result was a statistical tie. In Moapa Valley 1,707 voters said ‘Yes’ to Question 3, while 1,685 people voted ‘No’. This measure also passed decisively in the state with 57 percent of the vote.

Moapa Valley voters went along with Question 4 to provide a tax exemption for certain medical equipment. The measure received support from 63 percent of local voters. This went along with the statewide results, where the question also won 63% of the vote.

But the local results differed from the final decision on Clark County Question 5 regarding fuel tax indexing to pay for local roads. The majority of local voters rejected this measure with 59% voting ‘No’. But the Question prevailed county-wide with 58% of voters supporting it.

By the numbers
The following are the numbers of official votes cast in the General Election in all Moapa and Moapa Valley precincts. An asterisk (*) indicates an election winner that differs from the local results.

U.S. President
Hillary Clinton 532
Gary Johnson 81
Donald Trump 2726
All other candidates 138

U.S. Senate
Catherine Cortez Masto 566*
Joe Heck 2641
All other candidates 270

U.S. Congress, District 4
Cresent Hardy 2790
Ruben Kihuen 469*
All other candidates 218

State Senate District 19
Pete Goicoechea 1495
Janine Hansen 410

Assembly District 36
Dennis Hof 356
James Oscarson 1591

Clark County Commission District B
Marilyn Kirkpatrick 1551*
Kevin Williams 1801

District Court Dept. 15
Bruce Gale 644
Joe Hardy Jr. 2381

District Court Dept. 20
Eric Johnson 2087
Anat Levy 771

OPD District 7 At Large
David Bennett 762
Judy Metz 2424

OPD District 3 Moapa
Chad Leavitt 228
Billy Pulsipher 166

State Question 1
Yes 538*
No 2916
State Question 2
Yes 1123*
No 2331
State Question 3
Yes 1707
No 1684
State Question 4
Yes 2127
No 1243
County Question 5
Yes 1390*
No 2032

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