An eight-year incumbent’s decision not to run again for the Clark County Commission has left a seat up for grabs and attracted nine candidates who want to fill the District C slot.
Four private lawyers, including a career FBI agent, will vie for a seat in the ever-expanding Las Vegas Justice Court and its newly created Department 12.
Longtime Supreme Court Justice Bill Maupin announced early this year that he would not run for re-election, opting instead to spend time on adventures such as traveling to Haiti to help residents with health care.
First-term Republican Rep. Dean Heller talks about how he is not taking his little known 2nd Congressional District primary opponent, James Smack, lightly.
As 67-year-old Assemblyman Lynn Stewart envisions his political career, he will never have to worry about term limits.
Three Democrats and three Republicans are seeking the opportunity to succeed Sen. Dina Titus in District 7 in the Legislature in the upcoming August primary.
Voters for Family Court’s newly created Department R judgeship will have five candidates to choose from in the primaries, most of whom have unsuccessfully run for other judicial seats in the past.
Three people are contending for the State Board of Education’s District 7 seat now held by longtime educator Merv Iverson, who is not seeking a final four-year term.
A challenger has come out swinging hard at the four-year incumbent in what could be a bruising contest for the District B seat of the Clark County Commission.
Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley’s name is not on the Aug. 12 primary ballot, but she clearly is a big campaign issue for her District 8 Republican challengers, Kevin L. Child and Jim Jonas.
The primary race for a new North Las Vegas Justice Court seat pits two political newcomers against two lawyers making their second run at the court in two years.
The primary race to see who will be the Republican nominee to face off against a two-term incumbent for Assembly District 1 has pitted Republicans James R. Jones against Linda West Myers.
After his first term in the Assembly, Bob Beers feels he’s distinguished himself from the better-known state senator and gubernatorial candidate with the same name.
When Assembly District 41 candidate Paul Aizley hits the streets campaigning, all potential voters want to know is why he’s walking around in the heat.
The newly created Department O Family Court race has drawn attorneys Rebecca Wallace and Ronald Israel and Family Court hearing Master Frank Sullivan to vie for the six-year term.
Republican Rep. Jon Porter faces two primary opponents to keep his seat representing Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District, while four Democrats are vying for their party’s nomination.
In Clark County School Board District A, 12-year incumbent and School Board Chairwoman Mary Beth Scow faces three challengers as well as a pending legal challenge to her re-election based on the state’s term limits law.
The nonpartisan race for the newly formed District Court judge’s position in Department 25 has attracted a deputy attorney general, an attorney working for a nonprofit and two attorneys in private practice.
Three candidates who have experience as lawyers are vying for the opportunity to get behind the bench as a Family Court judge in the Department N race.
Democratic candidates in the Assembly District 18 primary race see things differently when it comes to what they hope to accomplish in the Legislature.
Private attorney Tony Liker has run for public office so many times he said he can’t remember the exact number. He’s running again, this time for a newly-created judge’s seat in Family Court.
The Democratic primary in Assembly District 12 pits a one-term incumbent with a long-serving name against a first-time candidate who seems eager to define himself in unusual ways.
Two Democrats are competing for the party’s nod in the contest for Clark County Commission District D — Lawrence Weekly, the incumbent, and PiAnge Jackson, a longtime district resident who started a foundation to help youth.
The race for Clark County School Board District E involves challengers who want revolutionary change versus an incumbent who sees progress but is not satisfied.
Voters can get the most out of this primary election guide by referring first to the sample ballot mailed to them from the Clark County Election Department.
As Drea Parenti-Perez and Richard Deeds campaign in the Republican primary for the opportunity to face William Horne, the Democratic incumbent of the Assembly 34 seat, the state’s budget crisis weighs on their minds.
Opponents vying for District Judge Donald Mosley’s bench in Department 14 cite his ethical troubles as reasons to bring in someone new with higher standards and more integrity.
Since Republican incumbent Garn Mabey announced he would not run for re-election, candidates have been coming out of the woodwork to be the next representative for District 2.
State Sen. Steven Horsford, who is finishing his first four-year term in the Legislature, faces two Democratic challengers in the August primary.
The fight for Department 23 pits incumbent and embattled District Judge Elizabeth Halverson against a Family Court judge and an attorney in private practice.