2016 Primary Election Nye County
Active Registered Voters 25,522
Election Day Turnout 2,229 (8.73 percent)
Early Turnout 2,865 (11.22 percent)
Absentee Turnout 595 (2.33 percent)
Mail Turnout 0 (0 percent)
Total Turnout 5,689 (22.28 percent)
County Commissioner District I (Republican)
Lorinda Wichman 322 votes
Scott Mattox 182 votes
Earl Jones 63 votes
Wichman is re-elected to third term.
County Commissioner District II (Republican)
John Koenig 362 votes
Amy Riches 114 votes
Ray T. Grant 108 votes
David Lancaster Sr. 43 votes
Sal Ledesma 19 votes
Koenig will face a Democratic challenger in the general election.
County Commissioner District III (Republican)
Donna C. Cox 258 votes
Leo Blundo 217 votes
Greg Dann 112 votes
Louie DeCanio 102 votes
Antheny “AJ” Dodd 62 votes
Cox is re-elected to a second term
State Assembly District 36
(Republican)
Tina Trenner 1,586 votes
James Oscarson 1,348 votes
Rusty Stanberry 239 votes
Oscarson won the overall primary vote, which includes parts of Clark and Lincoln counties. He will face an opponent in November.
U.S. Representative in Congress, District 4 (Republican)
Cresent Hardy 2,432 votes
Mike Monroe 674 votes
Wayne J. Villines 232 votes
U.S. Representative in Congress, District 4 (Democrat)
Susie Lee 503 votes
Ruben Kihuen 480 votes
Lucy Flores 463 votes
Mike Schaefer 60 votes
Rodney Smith 39 votes
Dan Rolle 33 votes
Morse Arberry Jr. 31 votes
Brandon Casutt 16 votes
Incumbent Hardy will face Kihuen, who won the Democratic nomination for the district, which includes North Las Vegas and other rural counties.
U.S. Senator (Republican)
Joe Heck 2,088 votes
Sharron Angle 817 votes
None of these Candidates 140 votes
D’Nese Davis 114 votes
Thomas “Sad Tom” Heck 96 votes
Eddie Hamilton 80 votes
Bill Tarbell 59 votes
Robert X. Leeds 26 votes
Juston J. Preble 22 votes
Carlo “Mazunga” Poliak 11 votes
U.S. Senator (Democrat)
Catherine Cortez Masto 1,204 votes
None of these Candidates 143 votes
Allen Rheinhart 125 votes
Liddo Susan O’Briant 117 votes
Bobby Mahendra 64 votes
Cortez Masto and Joe Heck will be on the November ballot for the seat being vacated by the retirement of Harry Reid.