Nevada 2005 Off Year Elections

The Green Papers: Nevada 2005 Off Year Elections

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Nevada
Elections for Statewide offices and Congress

Electoral Votes:	5	(0.93% of 538)
Governor:	1
Senators:	2	(Electoral Classes 1 and 3)
2002-2010 Representatives:	3	(0.69% of 435)
2000 Census:	2,002,032	(0.71% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):	1,390,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):	898,347
Capital:	Carson City

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Nevada State and Local Government



U.S. Senate 6 year term. No Term Limit. 109^th Senate Senate Electoral Classes

Class 1	Republican	Senator John Ensign • First elected: 2000 [also served in U.S. House- elected: 1994, 1996] • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Class 3	Democratic	Senator Harry Reid • First elected: 1986; re-elected: 1992, 1998, 2004. • Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, All Governors

	Republican	Governor Kenny Guinn • First elected: 1998; re-elected: 2002 • Chair up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006 • The current Governor is affected by a term limit and cannot run for re-election.
	Republican	(pending) • Possible candidates: Congressman Jim Gibbons (CD2)

Lieutenant Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

	Republican	Lieutenant Governor Lorraine T. Hunt • First elected: 1998; re-elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

109^th U.S. House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 109^th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition): 1 Democratic (1 Undetermined); 2 Republican (1 Open, 1 Undetermined)

CD 1	Democratic	Congressman Shelley Berkley • First elected: 1998 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 2	Republican	Congressman Jim Gibbons • First elected: 1996 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006 • Open Seat - 31 August 2005: Running for Governor in 2006

CD 3	Republican	Congressman Jon Porter • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Secretary of State 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

	Republican	Secretary of State Dean Heller • First elected: 1994; re-elected: 1998, 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Attorney General 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

	Republican	Attorney General George J. Chanos • Appointed: November 2005 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Treasurer 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

	Republican	Treasurer Brian K. Krolicki • First elected: 1998; re-elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Controller 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006

	Republican	Controller Kathy Augustine • First elected: 1998; re-elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006 • 1 December 2004: Impeachment trial begins. There are allegations that Secretary Augustine had state employees in her office work on her 2002 re-election campaign.

Political Parties Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.

	• Democratic
	• Green
	• Independent American
	• Republican