List of governors of Nevada
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox official post The governor of Nevada is the head of government of the U.S. state of Nevada.<ref name="nvc-5-1">NV Const. art. V, § 1.</ref> The governor is the head of the executive branch of the Nevada state government. The governor is also the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.<ref>NV Const. art. V, § 5.</ref> The governor has a duty to enforce state laws<ref>NV Const. art. V, § 7.</ref> and the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Nevada Legislature,<ref>NV Const. art. IV, § 35.</ref> to convene the legislature at any time,<ref>NV Const. art. V, § 9.</ref> as well as, except in cases of treason or impeachment, to grant pardons and reprieves.<ref>NV Const. art. V, § 13.</ref>
The governor serves a four-year term.<ref>NV Const. art. V, § 2</ref> An amendment in 1970 limits them to two terms, even if they are non-consecutive.<ref>NV Const. art. V, § 3</ref> The lieutenant governor of Nevada is officially not elected on the same ticket as the governor. Should there be a vacancy in the office of governor, the powers devolve onto the lieutenant governor.
The current governor is Republican Joe Lombardo, who took office on January 2, 2023.
List of governors
Territory of Nevada
Nevada Territory was formed on March 2, 1861, from Utah Territory.<ref>Template:Usstat</ref> It had only one governor appointed by the president of the United States before it became a state.
Before it was organized as a territory, a local convention in Genoa elected Isaac Roop provisional governor, taking office on December 15, 1859.<ref name="LA-19371016">Template:Cite web</ref>
| Template:Abbr | Governor | Term in office | Appointed by | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | File:James W. Nye - Brady-Handy.jpg | James W. Nye Template:Small Template:Sfn<ref name="nga-nye">Template:Cite web</ref> |
March 22, 1861Template:Efn – December 5, 1864 Template:Small |
Abraham Lincoln |
State of Nevada
Nevada was admitted to the Union on October 31, 1864.<ref>Template:Usstat</ref> There have been thirty one governors since. The longest-serving governor was Bob Miller, who served two and a half terms from 1989 to 1999; the shortest-serving governor was Frank Bell, who acted as governor for the remaining four months of Charles C. Stevenson's term upon the governor's death. The current governor is Joe Lombardo, who took office on January 2, 2023.
Timeline
| Timeline of Nevada governors |
|
<timeline>
ImageSize = width:1500 height:auto barincrement:18 PlotArea = top:10 bottom:20 right:130 left:10 AlignBars = late DateFormat = x.y Period = from:1860.90 till:{{#expr:{{#time:Y}}+{{#time:m}}/6}} TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:10 start:1870 ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:1 start:1861 Define $now = {{#expr:{{#time:Y}}+{{#time:m}}/12}} Colors = id:5year value:rgb(0.8, 0.8, 0.8) id:0year value:rgb(0.6, 0.6, 0.6) id:noparty value:rgb(0.7, 0.7, 0.7) id:rep value:rgb(0.91, 0.11, 0.14) id:dem value:rgb(0.2, 0.2, 1) id:silver value:rgb(0.64, 0.75, 0.73) id:seat1 value:rgb(0.60, 0.10, 0.10) id:blank value:white BarData = barset:GovernorLine barset:Governors #barset:blankline PlotData= width:1 align:right fontsize:S shift:(-3,-4) anchor:from fontsize:8 color:black barset:GovernorLine from:1876 till:end text:Governors width:6 align:left fontsize:S shift:(5,-4) anchor:till fontsize:10 barset:Governors from:1861.22 till:1864.93 color:noparty text:"James W. Nye" from:1864.93 till:1871.01 color:rep text:"Henry G. Blasdel" from:1871.01 till:1879.02 color:dem text:"Lewis R. Bradley" from:1879.02 till:1883 color:rep text:"John Henry Kinkead" from:1883 till:1887.01 color:dem text:"Jewett W. Adams" from:1887.01 till:1890.72 color:rep text:"Charles C. Stevenson" from:1890.72 till:1891.01 color:rep text:"Frank Bell" from:1891.01 till:1895.02 color:rep text:"Roswell K. Colcord" from:1895.02 till:1896.28 color:silver text:"John Edward Jones" from:1896.28 till:1903.01 color:silver text:"Reinhold Sadler" from:1903.01 till:1908.39 color:silver text:"John Sparks" from:1908.39 till:1911.01 color:silver text:"Denver S. Dickerson" from:1911.01 till:1915.01 color:rep text:"Tasker Oddie" from:1915.01 till:1923 color:dem text:"Emmet D. Boyle" from:1923 till:1927.01 color:dem text:"James G. Scrugham" from:1927.01 till:1934.22 color:rep text:"Fred B. Balzar" from:1934.22 till:1935.02 color:rep text:"Morley Griswold" from:1935.02 till:1939.01 color:dem text:"Richard Kirman Sr." from:1939.01 till:1945.56 color:dem text:"Edward P. Carville" from:1945.56 till:1951.01 color:dem text:"Vail Pittman" from:1951.01 till:1959.01 color:rep text:"Charles H. Russell" from:1959.01 till:1967.01 color:dem text:"Grant Sawyer" from:1967.01 till:1971.01 color:rep text:"Paul Laxalt" from:1971.01 till:1979 color:dem text:"Mike O'Callaghan" from:1979 till:1983.01 color:rep text:"Robert List" from:1983.01 till:1989.01 color:dem text:"Richard Bryan" from:1989.01 till:1999.01 color:dem text:"Bob Miller" from:1999.01 till:2007 color:rep text:"Kenny Guinn" from:2007 till:2011.01 color:rep text:"Jim Gibbons" from:2011.01 till:2019.02 color:rep text:"Brian Sandoval" from:2019.02 till:2023.01 color:dem text:"Steve Sisolak" from:2023.01 till:$now color:rep text:"Joe Lombardo" LineData= layer:back # This section creates the vertical lines. at:1865.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1870.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1875.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1880.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1885.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1890.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1895.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1900.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1905.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1910.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1915.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1920.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1925.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1930.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1935.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1940.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1945.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1950.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1955.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1960.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1965.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1970.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1975.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1980.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1985.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:1990.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:1995.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:2000.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:2005.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:2010.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:2015.00 width:0.1 color:5year at:2020.00 width:0.1 color:0year at:2025.00 width:0.1 color:5year</timeline> |
Electoral history (1950–)
| Year | Democratic nominee | Republican nominee | Independent candidate | Independent American nominee | Libertarian nominee | Green nominee | Other candidate | None of These Candidates | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | # | % | Candidate | # | % | Candidate | # | % | Candidate | # | % | Candidate | # | % | Candidate | # | % | Candidate | # | % | Candidate | # | % | |||||||||
| 1950 | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Vail Pittman | 26,164 | 42.36% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Charles H. Russell | 35,609 | 57.65% | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1954 | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Vail Pittman | 36,797 | 46.90% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Charles H. Russell | 41,665 | 53.10% | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1958 | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Grant Sawyer | 50,864 | 59.92% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Charles H. Russell | 34,025 | 40.08% | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1962 | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Grant Sawyer | 64,784 | 66.84% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Oran K. Gragson | 32,145 | 33.16% | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1966 | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Grant Sawyer | 65,870 | 47.84% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Paul Laxalt | 71,807 | 52.16% | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1970 | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Mike O'Callaghan | 70,697 | 48.10% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Ed Fike | 64,400 | 43.81% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Charles E. Springer | 6,479 | 4.41% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Daniel M. Hansen | 5,415 | 3.68% | – | – | – | – | ||||||||||||
| 1974 | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Mike O'Callaghan | 114,114 | 67.38% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Shirley Crumpler | 28,959 | 17.10% | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | James Ray Houston | 26,285 | 15.52% | – | – | – | – | |||||||||||||||
| 1978 | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Robert E. Rose | 76,361 | 39.68% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Robert List | 108,097 | 56.17% | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Thomas F. Jefferson | 3,282 | 1.71% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | John W. Grayson | 1,487 | 0.77% | – | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Template:Nowrap | 3,218 | 1.67% | |||||||||
| 1982 | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Richard Bryan | 128,132 | 53.44% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Robert List | 100,104 | 41.75% | – | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Dan Becan | 4,621 | 1.93% | – | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Template:Nowrap | 6,894 | 2.88% | ||||||||||||
| 1986 | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Richard Bryan | 187,268 | 71.92% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Patricia Cafferata | 65,081 | 25.00% | – | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Lou Tomburello | 2,555 | 0.98% | – | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Template:Nowrap | 5,471 | 2.10% | ||||||||||||
| 1990 | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Bob Miller | 207,878 | 64.81% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Jim Gallaway | 95,789 | 29.86% | – | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | James Frye | 8,059 | 2.51% | – | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Template:Nowrap | 9,017 | 2.81% | ||||||||||||
| 1994 | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Bob Miller | 200,026 | 52.68% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Jim Gibbons | 156,875 | 41.32% | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Daniel M. Hansen | 10,012 | 2.64% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Denis Sholty | 3,978 | 1.05% | – | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Template:Nowrap | 8,785 | 2.31% | |||||||||
| 1998 | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Jan Laverty Jones | 182,281 | 42.04% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Kenny Guinn | 223,892 | 51.63% | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Chuck Horne | 7,509 | 1.73% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Terry C. Savage | 7,307 | 1.69% | – | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Template:Nowrap | 12,641 | 2.92% | |||||||||
| 2002 | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Joe Neal | 110,935 | 22.01% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Kenny Guinn | 344,001 | 68.24% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Jerry L. Norton | 5,543 | 1.10% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | David G. Holmgren | 7,047 | 1.40% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Dick Geyer | 8,104 | 1.61% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Charles Laws | 4,775 | 0.95% | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Template:Nowrap | 23,674 | 4.70% | |||
| 2006 | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Dina Titus | 255,684 | 43.92% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Jim Gibbons | 279,003 | 47.93% | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Christopher H. Hansen | 20,019 | 3.44% | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Craig Bergland | 6,753 | 1.16% | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Template:Nowrap | 20,699 | 3.56% | |||||||||
| 2010 | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Rory Reid | 298,171 | 41.61% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Brian Sandoval | 382,350 | 53.56% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Eugene DiSimone | 6,403 | 0.89% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Floyd Fitzgibbons | 5,049 | 0.70% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Arthur F. Lampitt | 4,672 | 0.65% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | David S. Curtis | 4,437 | 0.62% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Aaron Y. Honig | 3,216 | 0.45% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Template:Nowrap | 12,231 | 1.71% |
| 2014 | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Bob Goodman | 130,722 | 23.88% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Brian Sandoval | 386,340 | 70.58% | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | David L. VanDerBeek | 14,536 | 2.66% | – | – | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Template:Nowrap | 15,751 | 2.88% | ||||||||||||
| 2018 | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Steve Sisolak | 480,007 | 49.39% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Adam Laxalt | 440,320 | 45.31% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Ryan Bundy | 13,891 | 1.43% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Russell Best | 10,076 | 1.04% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Jared Lord | 8,640 | 0.89% | – | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Template:Nowrap | 18,865 | 1.94% | ||||||
| 2022 | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Steve Sisolak | 481,991 | 47.30% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Joe Lombardo | 497,377 | 48.81% | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Ed Bridges | 9,918 | 0.97% | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Brandon Davis | 14,919 | 1.46% | – | – | bgcolor="Template:Party color" | | Template:Nowrap | 14,866 | 1.46% | |||||||||
See also
Notes
References
- General
- Template:Cite web
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite web
- Specific
External links
Template:Current U.S. governors Template:Lists of US Governors Template:US state navigation box Template:Nevada statewide elected officials