People wait to vote in-person at Reed High School in Sparks prior to polls closing on Nov. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner, file)
There are now 2.12 million people registered to vote in the state of Nevada and 1.86 million them are listed as active voters.
According to statistics released by the Secretary of State’s office, Nevada added 11,726 active registered voters in February. Active voters are those who voted in the last elections or returned voter ID cards mailed to their homes.
Inactive voters are those who haven’t voted in a while or failed to return that postcard. But they are still eligible to cast a ballot in the upcoming election cycle.
Of the 2.12 million total registered voters, Democrats have a major lead in registration with 715,797 members. That is 94,817 more than the Republican Party that has 620,980 members registered.
That, however, gets seriously evened out when the 96,631 members of the Independent American Party are added to the GOP since, in the last analysis when their candidate doesn’t appear to have a chance, IAP voters are much more likely to vote Republican than Democrat.
Meanwhile, nonpartisan voters continued to close in on the GOP, reporting 604,305 members as of the end of February.
While the Democratic registrations far outnumber those of other parties, it’s almost completely because of Clark County in the south. There, Democrats hold a 167,845 voter advantage over the Republicans.
But Clark County, home to more than 70 percent of Nevadans, is the only one of 17 Nevada counties where the Democrats outnumber the GOP.
There are 1.5 million registered voters in Clark County.
The other 15 counties including Carson City have more registered Republicans than Democrats.
In Carson City, there are now 41,036 registered to vote and the GOP has 4,776 more listed than the Democrats. But nonpartisans, whose numbers have been growing steadily for more than a decade, had a full quarter of the total voters at 10,700.
In Washoe County, registration is pretty evenly divided between the two major parties with 111,828 Democrats and 112,591 Republicans. There again, just under a quarter of 346,940 voters are nonpartisan.
Finally, there are two counties where, despite statewide population growth, the number of registered voters decreased over the month of February. The decrease was just two voters in Esmeralda which has 628 registered voters and 22 in Lincoln County where there are 3,177 voters on the rolls.
