Republicans Lead Voter Registrations In Battleground State For First Time In Nearly 20 Years

Go to Article

Republicans now hold a voter registration advantage over Democrats in Nevada for the first time since 2007.

“The GOP has a +2,616 advantage over Democrats for active voters on the rolls!” Turning Point Action Data Manager Ben Larrabee said.

GOP: 596,356

Democrats: 593,740

“This is the first year since 2007 in which there are more active Republicans than Democrats in the state,” he added.

More from The Nevada Globe:

Through the housing crash. Through Obama. Through Reid’s machine. Through the pandemic. Through nonstop national Democrats money flooding Las Vegas. And yet here we are.

For years, Democrats treated Nevada like a lock. A Sun Belt stronghold they could manage with union muscle, ballot harvesting, and Hollywood cash. Republicans were written off. Declared dead. Supposed to fade quietly into the desert.

Instead, voters are moving the other direction.

The shift is not happening in a vacuum. Nevadans have lived under sky high prices, a border crisis spilling into every community, rising crime, failing schools, and a Democrat Party more obsessed with Washington politics than kitchen table reality. When people feel the squeeze, they start asking harder questions. And when answers do not come, they start changing their registration.

Meanwhile, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is attempting to reverse the trend with a “seven-figure” voter registration campaign in the Silver State.

“Democrats had a rough five-year stretch from 2021 to 2025 in voter registration, but the trend has started to turn. With recent gains, for example, they now have a good chance to flip Nevada back into a Democratic registration advantage by the midterms,” VoteHub Head of Data Science Zachary Donnini said.

The Nevada Independent explained further:

Nonpartisans have also surged; the most recent statistics indicate that a few thousand more Nevada voters are registered Republicans than registered Democrats, but that nearly 200,000 more are nonpartisan. Gallup data published Monday showed a record high 45 percent of American adults identified as independents in 2025.

The DNC’s program, dubbed “When We Count,” is expected to be the committee’s largest-ever national voter registration campaign and marks the first time in more than ten years that it has invested in on-the-ground partisan voter registration. DNC Chair Ken Martin stressed the strategic importance of such efforts, saying they will be a top priority.

“A year ago, during my campaign for DNC chair, I vowed that our national party would get back into the business of partisan voter registration,” Martin said on a Tuesday press call. “For too long, Democrats have ceded ground to Republicans on registered voters.”

The DNC will be especially focused on voters of color that it says have been overlooked by traditional registration efforts. The party believes it could help register nearly half of the state’s 160,000 unregistered Latino voters, as well as many members of the fast-growing Asian American and Pacific Islander electorate.

Both groups helped flip the state to President Donald Trump in 2024, a departure from historical patterns in which nonwhite voters have strongly backed Democrats and had kept Nevada blue for the last two decades of presidential elections.



Comment on this Article Via Your Disqus Account