As of this afternoon on Wednesday, November 3, 2010, all precincts have reported in Nevada’s elections. Harry Reid has soundly defeated Tea Party-backed Sharron Angle by a margin of about 40,000 votes:
Harry Reid (D) 50.2% 361,655 votes
Sharron Angle (R) 44.6% 320,996 votes
None of these 2.2% 16,174 votes
Angle was unable to compensate for Reid’s large electoral gains in Clark and Washoe Counties (housing Las Vegas and Reno respectively) despite her sweep of Nevada’s other counties (except for Mineral County which had a 30 vote difference in favor of Reid).
As expected, the Nevada 2nd House District went to Republican Dean Heller and Nevada’s 1st House District (encompassing Las Vegas proper) reelected Democrat Shelley Berkley.
Dean Heller (R) 63.3% 169,286 votes
Nancy Price (D) 32.6% 87,226 votes
Shelley Berkley (D) 61.7% 102,870 votes
Kenneth Wegner (R) 35.3% 58,920 votes
Perhaps the closest race in Nevada was for the 3rd House District which was expected to be a toss-up going into November. This district, which houses Las Vegas’ suburbs is more moderate and consists of relatively equal strengths between Republicans and Democrats. The incumbent, Dina Titus (D) was defeated by a small margin (about 2,000 votes or less than 1%). As a result, Republican Joe Heck successfully persuaded the voters of the 3rd District to swap the party representing them in Washington D.C.
Joe Heck (R) 48.2% 128,703 votes
Dina Titus (D) 47.4% 126,781 votes
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