Michele Fiore, Kelli Ross frontrunners in poll to win Las Vegas City Council race

Former Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore leads a 10-way race to represent Ward 6 on the Las Vegas City Council, a new poll shows.

Fiore was favored by 36 percent of the 202 likely voters polled, followed by Kelli Ross at 27 percent. Ross is aiming to replace her term-limited husband, Steve Ross, in representing the northwest Las Vegas ward for the next four years.

Clark County School District Trustee Chris Garvey drew 11 percent, while 10 percent of respondents said they would vote for someone besides one of the front-runners.

The poll, done by Public Policy Polling from March 3 through March 5, was conducted by phone, and has a margin of error of 6.9 percentage points.

If a candidate draws more than 50 percent of primary votes, he or she seals the victory in the April 4 primary. Otherwise, the two candidates with the most votes advance to a June 13 general election.

Fiore campaign manager Ryan Hamilton said he expects Fiore will draw votes from a minimum of 75 percent of Republican voters. Hamilton said he thought the Laborers Local 872 commissioned the poll.

City races are officially nonpartisan.

In the 2013 Las Vegas primary election, 15,371 voters, or about 10 percent of registered voters, cast ballots in all city races. In the 2015 city primary, the last time there was a mayor’s race, 37,639 voters cast ballots, according to Clark County Election Department data.

Fiore served two terms in the Nevada Assembly representing District 4, which overlaps with the city’s Ward 6. She ran for Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District last year but lost to Danny Tarkanian in the Republican primary.

Kelli Ross ran as a Democrat in state Senate District 18 but lost to Republican Scott Hammond. Ross has not held public office, but has said she’s been heavily involved in city issues during her husband’s 12 years on the council and that taking over would be a simple learning curve. Ross said she doesn’t have a lot of faith in numbers from polls that small of a sample size, but she’s heartened by the reactions she gets while knocking on doors in Ward 6.

Ryan Alarid, Adam Christian, Matthew Consoli, Joel Jarvis, Allen Jordan, Reid Rasner and Thaddeus Ynigues round out the field vying for the Ward 6 seat.

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