Former U.S. Representative Dina Titus, who represented the 3rd district from 2009 until 2011, sought and received the Democratic nomination to succeed Berkley. State SenatorRuben Kihuen had also planned to seek the Democratic nomination, but ended his campaign in February 2012.
Republican primary
, a security strategic planner and Navy officer, sought and received the Republican nomination to challenge Titus. He defeated Charmaine Guss, an anti-abortion activist and former real estate broker; Brian Landsberger, a retired mechanical engineer and former Air Forcefighter pilot; Herb Peters, a retired aerospace engineer and seven-time Libertarian candidate for Congress in California; and Miguel "Mike" Rodrigues, an elementary school principal, in the Republican primary.
Samuel Koepnick, an information technology employee for the state of Nevada, sought and received the Democratic nomination to challenge Amodei. He defeated Sam Dehne, a retired pilot, and Xiomara Rodriguez, a retired businesswoman, in the Democratic primary.
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General election
Results
District 3
Republican Joe Heck, who has represented Nevada's 3rd congressional district since January 2011, is running for re-election. Tom Jones, a retired businessman, is running as the nominee of the Independent American Party of Nevada. James Murphy, a retired airline captain, is running as an Independent.
Democratic primary
, the Speaker of the Nevada Assembly, won the Democratic primary against Stephen Frye, a psychiatrist; James F. Haning II, a businessman; Jesse "Jake" Holder, a former Navy officer and Political Science student at UNLV and ; Barry Michaels, a businessman; and Gerald "Jerry" Sakura, a retired business executive. Former U.S. Representative Dina Titus, who represented the 3rd district from 2009 until 2011 and unsuccessfully sought re-election in 2010, is running in the 1st district.
Primary results
Republican primary
Chris Dyer, a food service employee and Army and Navy veteran, unsuccessfully challenged Heck in the Republican primary.
Primary results
General election
Results
District 4
was created for the 2012 elections as a result of reapportionment following the 2010 United States Census. It consists of most of Central Nevada and Northern Clark County, the latter of which contains the bulk of the district's population. Floyd Fitzgibbons, an insurance agent, is running as the nominee of the Independent American Party of Nevada. Joseph Silvestri, a teacher and chairman of the Libertarian Party of Nevada, is also running.
Democratic primary
, the majority leader of the Nevada Senate, received the Democratic nomination for the new seat unopposed. Fellow Democratic state Senator John Lee announced in October 2011 that he would run for the seat, but dropped his bid in November 2011.
Republican primary
, a businessman who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2010, sought and received the nomination for the new seat. He defeated Diana Anderson, a retired clerical worker; state SenatorBarbara Cegavske; Mike Delarosa, a detention officer; Kiran Hill, a translator for the State Department; Robert Leeds, an author and former Merchant Marine; Dan Schwartz, a businessman; Kenneth Wegner, a retired Army veteran and Republican nominee for the 1st district in 2006, 2008 and 2010; and Sid Zeller, a retired Marineintelligence officer, in the Republican primary. In the 2014 midterm elections, Cegavske and Schwartz would be elected to the statewide offices of Secretary of State and Treasurer respectively.
