The final voter registration numbers look quite similar to those from 2012. And that’s very good news indeed.
The Nevada SOS website has posted its final numbers for the close of registration for the 2016 elections. Overall, there’s a lot to be happy about.
Here are the final numbers for Clark County among active voters:
Democrats 438,822 (43.09%)
Republicans 296,559 (29.12%)
Independents 221,545 (21.76%)
Total: 1,018,301
It warrants repeating that this election marks the first time that Clark County has ever had more than one million active registered voters. Our margin at the close of registration in Clark County is 142,263 among active voters. At the same point in 2012, it was 127,471.
Here are the numbers for Clark County from the same point in time from 2012:
Democrats 390,277 (45.82%)
Republicans 262,806 (30.85%)
Independents 151,490 (17.78%)
Total: 851,803
So as we can clearly see, there has been a movement toward registering as an independent as both parties have taken a hit in Clark County percentage-wise from 2012 to 2016. And Democrats have lost a slightly larger percentage of the share of active voters than Republicans have.
Nevertheless, at the moment, the Clark County numbers are still extremely solid. And whereas Clark County active voters comprised 67.73% of all active voters in Nevada in 2012, as of now, they comprise 69.52% of active voters statewide. And that figure will only grow as the population growth of Clark County continues to accelerate.
But what about the statewide numbers this time around? They’re very solid, although not quite as good as they were in 2012.
Here are the statewide figures among active voters at the close of registration for the 2016 elections:
Democrats 577,679 (39.67%)
Republicans 488,861 (32.60%)
Independents 304,528 (20.79%)
Total: 1,464,819
So Democrats have a statewide registration advantage of 7.07% among active voters.
Here are the statewide figures among active voters at the close of registration from 2012:
Democrats 526,986 (41.90%)
Republicans 436,799 (34.73%)
Independents 219,299 (17.44%)
Total: 1,257,621
Again, it’s worth noting that on a statewide level, both parties have taken a hit since 2012. But the statewide margin for us in 2012 was 7.17% so we have barely lost any ground on that metric at all. And our margin of advantage among active voters was 90,187 among active voters in Nevada in 2012 and this time it’s 88,818 so there hasn’t been much change there either.
Overall, we are looking at a slightly blue state. And it’s a state that promises to become more and more blue as time goes by, given the state’s growing diversity. For instance, in 2006, Latinos made up 24.4% of the population in Nevada. In 2013, that figure was 27.5%. In 2006 African Americans made up 7.9% of the population in Nevada. As of 2013, that figure was 9.0%. In 2006 Asian Americans made up 6.0% of the population in Nevada. In 2013, that figure was 8.1%. White, non-Latino persons made up 58.9% of Nevada’s population in 2006, but in 2013, that figure had plummeted to just 52.2%.
So as we can clearly see, Nevada is not only one of the most ethnically diverse states in the country, it is also a rapidly changing state — one where diversity will continue to accelerate. And that’s a very wonderful thing. Unfortunately, I had to use archive.org to find all these figures on quickfacts.census.gov, so a link is not readily available. Quickfacts.census.gov has changed to some other website which is kind of incomprehensible so I prefer to use archive.org to go back and look at the different statistics that are available.
Anyway, here’s a link to the NV SOS website where you can poke around and look at all kinds of statistics:
www.nvsos.gov/...
