Election Results Summary

By VERNON ROBISON

The Progress

The 2022 General Elections took place on Tuesday, Nov. 8. At this point all of the mail-in votes have been counted in Nevada and the results are all but final.

At this point, all that is left to conclude the election is to complete the final canvass of votes. In our area, this will be done by the Clark County Commission on Friday, Nov. 18. At that point, voting results will be available by precinct. Those “official” results for the Moapa Valley and Virgin Valley communities will be published in an upcoming edition of The Progress.

In the meantime, here are the “unofficial” election results, beginning with those for local elections.

Moapa Valley
This election marked the first time that Logandale and Overton voters could select their own Town Advisory Board members by casting a ballot.

Lori Houston was a clear front-runner in the election receiving 22.26 percent of the vote.
MVTAB Incumbents Brian Burris and Lois Hall were also re-elected with 14.68 percent and 13.33 percent respectively.

Jill Gladwin-Williams will also be seated with 11 percent of the vote. Janice Ridondo also will join the MVTAB having garnered 10.9 percent of the vote.

In the race for Moapa Valley Water District Overton seat, there were two seats up for grabs. Incumbent board member Kelby Robison retained his seat with 42.63 percent of the vote.

The other seat is being vacated by Randy Tobler who has reached his term limit on the board. It was won by Scott Farnsworth who received 35.46 percent of the vote.

Finally, in the race for the Overton Power District Seat #1, also in Overton, incumbent Richard Jones was re-elected with 58.06 percent of the vote. Challenger Joe Davis received 42.9 percent.

Virgin Valley
The make up of the Mesquite City Council will see a major change in the coming year as a result of this election.

Karen Fielding was able to topple incumbent Councilwoman Sandra Ramaker, taking 61.6 percent of the vote in the race for Seat 1.

In a slightly closer race, challenger Paul Wanlass defeated incumbent Karen Dutkowski to win the Seat 4 election. Wanlass got 54.38 percent of the vote.

In the race for Seat 3 there was no incumbent as Councilman George Gault had opted not to seek re-election. Pattie Gallo won the seat against Joey Bowler with 60.89 percent of the vote.

Clark County
The three Democratic incumbents: Tick Segerblom, Jim Gibson and Justin Jones won in the Clark County Commission races.

Jones got a run for his money against Republican challenger Drew Johnson. Johnson came out ahead in the first few days after the election. But the mail-in ballot count floated Jones to the top. As of Saturday night, Jones led with 50.04 percent of the vote, winning by only 84 votes.

Steve Wolfson (D) was re-elected to County District Attorney with 56.84 percent.

County Assessor Briana Johnson (D) retained her seat with 53.3 percent.

County Clerk Lynn Goya (D) was also re-elected with 52.9 percent.

Debbie Conway (D) was elected in the race for County Recorder with 53.62 percent.

Ken Diaz (D) won the race for County Treasurer with 52.15 percent of the vote.

In the race for Public Administrator, Rita Reid (D) came out ahead with 50.69 percent.

State Legislature
The Democrats retained significant majorities in both the Nevada Assembly and the state Senate.
It appears that the Democrats will hold on to 24 seats in the Assembly. Republicans gained two new seats bringing the number of the minority to 14. In the Senate, Democrats will keep 12 of the 21 state Senate seats.

In the race for State Senate District 20, which includes Virgin Valley and Moapa Valley, the clear winner was Republican Jeff Stone who took 61.79 percent of the vote.
Toby Yurek, who ran unopposed for Assembly District 19, will represent both valleys at the legislature.

State Constitutional offices
Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak was defeated in the election by Republican challenger Joe Lombardo. Lombardo won with only a 16,108 vote lead at 48.87 percent of the vote.

Republican Stavros Anthony won the race Lieutenant Governor with 49.9 percent, defeating Democrat Lisa Cano Burkhead by 37,538 votes.

The election for Secretary of State went to Democrat Francisco Aguilar who won with 48.92 percent against Jim Marchant (R).

Buoyed up by mail-in ballot counts, incumbent State Treasurer Zach Conine (D) beat challenger Michele Fiore (R) with 47.69 percent of the vote.

Republican Andy Matthews prevailed in the race for State Controller with 50.13 percent against Ellen Spiegel (D).

Attorney General Aaron Ford (D) had no trouble retaining his seat with 52.23 percent of the vote against Sigal Chattah (R).

Congressional races
The U.S. Senate race in Nevada was razor close throughout the week. Early results numbers put challenger Adam Laxalt (R) ahead. But that lead had narrowed by Friday. And the Saturday mail-in count updates put incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto (D) as the winner with 52.28 percent of the vote, ahead by more than 50,000 votes.

In the race for U.S. Congressional District 4, incumbent Steven Horsford (D) was the clear winner against Sam Peters (R) with 55.23 percent of the vote.

The incumbents won in the other three Congressional races. Dina Titus took 51.44 percent of the vote for District 1. Susie Lee won with 51.87 percent in District 3. Mark Amodei (R) won in northern Nevada’s District 2 with 59.74 percent.

Ballot Questions
The ‘Yes’ votes won in all three ballot questions in the state.

Question 1, the Equal Rights Amendment in Nevada, won with 58.52 percent.

Question 2, which raised minimum wage in the state to $12/hr, also won with 55.07 percent.

Question 3, allowing for ranked choice voting and open primary elections in Nevada, also won with 52.77 percent of the vote.