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| Election details |
| Filing deadline: March 15, 2024 |
| Primary: June 11, 2024 General: November 5, 2024 Pre-election incumbent(s): Laura E. Perkins (District 1) Donald Sylvantee McMichael Sr. (District 4) Carol Del Carlo (District 9) Amy Carvalho (District 12) |
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| Poll times: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Voting in Nevada |
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Nevada held an election for four of 13 seats on theNevada State Board of Regents onNovember 5, 2024. The primary was June 11, 2024. The filing deadline was March 15, 2024.
Carlos Fernandez won election in the general election for Nevada Board of Regents District 1.
Aaron Bautista won election in the general election for Nevada Board of Regents District 4.
IncumbentAmy Carvalho won election in the general election for Nevada Board of Regents District 12.
Candidates and election results
District 1
General election
General election for Nevada Board of Regents District 1
Carlos Fernandez defeatedMatthew Bowen in the general election for Nevada Board of Regents District 1 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Carlos Fernandez (Nonpartisan)  | 57.8 | 50,112 |
| Matthew Bowen (Nonpartisan) | 42.2 | 36,526 | ||
| There were noincumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source | Total votes: 86,638 | ||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Nevada Board of Regents District 1
Carlos Fernandez andMatthew Bowen defeatedIda Zeiler in the primary for Nevada Board of Regents District 1 on June 11, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Carlos Fernandez (Nonpartisan) | 38.5 | 8,500 |
| ✔ | Matthew Bowen (Nonpartisan) | 31.1 | 6,860 | |
 | Ida Zeiler (Nonpartisan) | 30.4 | 6,710 | |
| There were noincumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source | Total votes: 22,070 | ||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Nathaniel Waugh (Nonpartisan)
District 4
General election
General election for Nevada Board of Regents District 4
Aaron Bautista defeatedTonia Holmes-Sutton in the general election for Nevada Board of Regents District 4 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Aaron Bautista (Nonpartisan) | 58.0 | 32,911 |
 | Tonia Holmes-Sutton (Nonpartisan) | 42.0 | 23,830 | |
| There were noincumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source | Total votes: 56,741 | ||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Nevada Board of Regents District 4
Tonia Holmes-Sutton andAaron Bautista defeatedRichard Carrillo, incumbentDonald Sylvantee McMichael Sr., andShawn Stamper in the primary for Nevada Board of Regents District 4 on June 11, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tonia Holmes-Sutton (Nonpartisan) | 29.4 | 3,295 |
| ✔ | | Aaron Bautista (Nonpartisan) | 28.6 | 3,199 |
 | Richard Carrillo (Nonpartisan) | 18.0 | 2,020 | |
| Donald Sylvantee McMichael Sr. (Nonpartisan) | 13.5 | 1,509 | ||
| Shawn Stamper (Nonpartisan) | 10.5 | 1,173 | ||
| Incumbents arebolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source | Total votes: 11,196 | ||
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District 9
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Nevada Board of Regents District 9
IncumbentCarol Del Carlo won election outright againstGary T. Johnson andBret Edward Delaire in the primary for Nevada Board of Regents District 9 on June 11, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Carol Del Carlo (Nonpartisan) | 58.2 | 25,232 | |
| Gary T. Johnson (Nonpartisan) | 22.7 | 9,863 | ||
 | Bret Edward Delaire (Nonpartisan) | 19.1 | 8,284 | |
| Incumbents arebolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source | Total votes: 43,379 | ||
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District 12
General election
General election for Nevada Board of Regents District 12
IncumbentAmy Carvalho defeatedJonathan Maxham in the general election for Nevada Board of Regents District 12 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Amy Carvalho (Nonpartisan) | 59.6 | 56,049 |
 | Jonathan Maxham (Nonpartisan) | 40.4 | 38,042 | |
| Incumbents arebolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source | Total votes: 94,091 | ||
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Nonpartisan primary election
The primary election was canceled. IncumbentAmy Carvalho andJonathan Maxham advanced from the primary for Nevada Board of Regents District 12.
Education ballot measures
On November 5, 2024, 11 education-related ballot measures were on the ballot in 10 states. To read more about education ballot measures on the ballot in 2024,click here.
In Nevada, there was one education measure on the ballot.
Nevada Question 1, Remove Constitutional Status of Board of Regents Amendment
What would this measure do?
A"yes" votesupported removing the constitutional status of the Board of Regents—which governs, controls, and manages the state universities in Nevada—thereby allowing the state legislature to review and change the governing organization of state universities. |
A"no" voteopposed removing the constitutional status of the Board of Regents, thereby keeping the current governing organization of state universities without state legislative authority to change it. |
Support
Supporters
Unions
Arguments
- Hawah Ahmad, lobbyist representing the Clark County Education Association: "CCEA supports this resolution because we believe that the K through 20 education delivery system in Nevada needs to be well funded with sufficient transparency and accountability measures to reach the goal of economic diversification in the State of Nevada. We know the key to economic diversification and workforce development lies in agility of program development and an abundance of resources to provide our students with a quality education. This is just one step in many that will help ensure the $1 Billion dollars spent biennially on higher education is strategically spent to improve student outcomes."
- Dr. Carol Lucey, President Emerita of Western Nevada College, and Dr. John Gwaltney, President Emeritus of Truckee Meadows Community College: "To ensure that the community colleges are able to play the strongest possible role in strengthening Nevada’s workforce, we must ensure first, that their support from public dollars is adequate and secondly, that they have the flexibility needed to respond to the the needs of their communities’ expanding and diversifying economies … SJR7 will help us get NSHE’s focus and energy back to where it needs to be: on serving our students and their communities. The students we are educating today will be taxpayers tomorrow and will help our state and its economy to diversify and grow, even when tough times hit. These students and communities are now being let down by a large, centralized state bureaucracy that is inflexible and tone deaf to their needs and the needs of the institutions educating them. By ensuring that NSHE and the Board of Regents are held accountable, like every other state entity, and not shielded from critical oversight, we will be in a better place to meet the future needs of our state economy."
Opposition
Opponents
Unions
Arguments
- Nevada State Education Association: "Elected boards are in place to ensure schools and colleges reflect the values of the people, providing direct lines of accountability to the community. This is the main reason elected boards are preferable to appointed or hybrid models. Appointed officials are shielded by an appointing authority who typically has significant other responsibilities in addition to board appointments. It is extremely rare to see an elected official voted out of office over the actions or conduct of another official they have appointed. This is truer still when the appointment is made by another deliberative body."
- Amy Pason, former chair of the Faculty Senate of the University of Nevada, Reno: "Given the range of issues related to higher education currently being proposed in this legislative session, SJR7 begs the question on what additionally the Legislature would like to do in terms of “reforming and improving” programs. The Legislature already has control over the state allocated portion of our institution’s budget; the Legislature has the power to implement furloughs or mandate cost of living increases. Budgeting, in turn, affects hiring our institution can do, programs we can support, or initiatives we can pursue. This legislative session has also shown the Legislature has the power to give tuition or fee waivers to some populations (leaving our institutions to address budget impacts and provide support for those groups), and address other topics as wide ranging as providing education on FAFSA, providing information to students on mental health resources, and compensation for college athletes. Working in partnership, our institutions have worked with policy makers on bills that allow access to DACA students as well as reforms for sexual assault and harassment policies on our campuses. This legislative session also included bills on reorganizing community colleges separate from NSHE, and a bill to study community colleges in relation to workforce and economic ecologies of the state. Given the range of issues here, what more would the Legislature like to govern as it related to higher education? As noted in the explanatory language of SJR7, the Nevada Supreme Court rule, the Legislature is limited to some areas of legislation that might with the Board of Regents’ management of higher education. Again, this begs the question of what areas the Legislature would like to influence that they currently cannot? What further accountability is needed that current legislative powers does not provide or that elections of Regents cannot remedy?"
Voting information
- See also:Voting in Nevada
Election information inNevada: Nov. 5, 2024, election.
What was the voter registration deadline?
- In-person: Nov. 5, 2024
- By mail: Postmarked by Oct. 8, 2024
- Online: Nov. 5, 2024
Was absentee/mail-in voting available to all voters?
What was the absentee/mail-in ballot request deadline?
- In-person: N/A
- By mail: N/A by N/A
- Online: N/A
What was the absentee/mail-in ballot return deadline?
- In-person: Nov. 5, 2024
- By mail: Postmarked by Nov. 5, 2024
Was early voting available to all voters?
What were the early voting start and end dates?
Were all voters required to present ID at the polls? If so, was a photo or non-photo ID required?
When were polls open on Election Day?
Past elections
The section below details election results for this office in elections dating back to 2018.
2022
District 6
General election candidates
- Heather Brown (Nonpartisan) ✔
- Jeanine Dakduk (Nonpartisan)
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Primary candidates
- Heather Brown (Nonpartisan) ✔
- Karl Catarata (Nonpartisan)
- Jeanine Dakduk (Nonpartisan) ✔
- Brandin Manwill (Nonpartisan)
Did not make the ballot:
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District 7
General election candidates
- Susan Brager (Nonpartisan) ✔
- David Crete (Nonpartisan)
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Primary candidates
- Susan Brager (Nonpartisan) ✔
- David Crete (Nonpartisan) ✔
- M.J. Ivy (Nonpartisan)
- Hieu Le (Nonpartisan)
- Aury Nagy (Nonpartisan)
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District 8
General election candidates
- Michelee Crawford (Nonpartisan) ✔
- John Patrick Rice (Nonpartisan)
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Primary candidates
- Jonathan Baltera (Nonpartisan)
- Michelee Crawford (Nonpartisan) ✔
- Aaron Manfredi (Nonpartisan)
- Elmer Porter (Nonpartisan)
- John Patrick Rice (Nonpartisan) ✔
- Stacy Smith (Nonpartisan)
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District 11
General election candidates
- Jeffrey Downs (Nonpartisan) ✔
- Steve Laden (Nonpartisan)
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Primary candidates
- Jeffrey Downs (Nonpartisan) ✔
- John Gwaltney (Nonpartisan)
- Steve Laden (Nonpartisan) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
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District 13
General election candidates
- John Moran (Incumbent) (Nonpartisan)
- Stephanie Goodman (Nonpartisan) ✔
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Primary candidates
- John Moran (Incumbent) (Nonpartisan) ✔
- Jennifer M. Bandiero (Nonpartisan)
- Stephanie Goodman (Nonpartisan) ✔
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2020
District 2
General election candidates
- Lois Tarkanian (Nonpartisan) ✔
- Bret Whipple (Nonpartisan)
Primary candidates
This primary was canceled and these candidates advanced:
- Lois Tarkanian (Nonpartisan) ✔
- Bret Whipple (Nonpartisan) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 3
General election candidates
- Byron Brooks (Nonpartisan) ✔
- Swadeep Nigam (Nonpartisan)
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Primary candidates
- Byron Brooks (Nonpartisan) ✔
- Lachelle Fisher (Nonpartisan)
- Swadeep Nigam (Nonpartisan) ✔
- Stephen Silberkraus (Nonpartisan)
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District 5
General election candidates
- Patrick Boylan (Nonpartisan) ✔
- Nick Spirtos (Nonpartisan)
Primary candidates
- Patrick Boylan (Nonpartisan) ✔
- Kevin Child (Nonpartisan)
- Nick Spirtos (Nonpartisan) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
- Sam Lieberman (Incumbent)
District 10
General election candidates
- Joseph Arrascada (Nonpartisan) ✔
- Kevin Melcher (Nonpartisan)
Primary candidates
- Joseph Arrascada (Nonpartisan) ✔
- Andrew Diss (Nonpartisan)
- Vince Lombardi (Nonpartisan)
- John McKendricks (Nonpartisan)
- Kevin Melcher (Nonpartisan) ✔
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2018
District 1
General election
General election for Nevada Board of Regents District 1
Laura Perkins defeatedJo Cato in the general election for Nevada Board of Regents District 1 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Laura Perkins (Nonpartisan) | 62.1 | 33,090 |
 | Jo Cato (Nonpartisan) | 37.9 | 20,170 | |
| There were noincumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source | Total votes: 53,260 | ||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Nevada Board of Regents District 1
Laura Perkins andJo Cato defeatedJack Mallory,David Olson, andEddie Ramirez in the primary for Nevada Board of Regents District 1 on June 12, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Laura Perkins (Nonpartisan) | 32.5 | 5,651 |
| ✔ | | Jo Cato (Nonpartisan) | 20.9 | 3,626 |
| Jack Mallory (Nonpartisan) | 18.2 | 3,168 | ||
| David Olson (Nonpartisan) | 16.5 | 2,861 | ||
| Eddie Ramirez (Nonpartisan) | 11.9 | 2,076 | ||
| There were noincumbents in this race. The results have been certified. | Total votes: 17,382 | ||
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District 4
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Nevada Board of Regents District 4
Donald Sylvantee McMichael Sr. won election outright in the primary for Nevada Board of Regents District 4 on June 12, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Donald Sylvantee McMichael Sr. (Nonpartisan) | 100.0 | 8,305 | |
| There were noincumbents in this race. The results have been certified. | Total votes: 8,305 | ||
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District 9
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Nevada Board of Regents District 9
IncumbentCarol Del Carlo won election outright in the primary for Nevada Board of Regents District 9 on June 12, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Carol Del Carlo (Nonpartisan) | 100.0 | 35,552 | |
| Incumbents arebolded and underlined. The results have been certified. | Total votes: 35,552 | ||
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District 12
General election
General election for Nevada Board of Regents District 12
Amy Carvalho defeatedAndrew Coates in the general election for Nevada Board of Regents District 12 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Amy Carvalho (Nonpartisan) | 61.0 | 40,398 |
 | Andrew Coates (Nonpartisan) | 39.0 | 25,867 | |
| There were noincumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source | Total votes: 66,265 | ||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Nevada Board of Regents District 12
Amy Carvalho andAndrew Coates defeatedBob Gutschick andT. Rao Coca in the primary for Nevada Board of Regents District 12 on June 12, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Amy Carvalho (Nonpartisan) | 46.8 | 10,504 |
| ✔ | | Andrew Coates (Nonpartisan) | 33.7 | 7,566 |
| Bob Gutschick (Nonpartisan) | 11.6 | 2,597 | ||
| T. Rao Coca (Nonpartisan) | 7.9 | 1,763 | ||
| There were noincumbents in this race. The results have been certified. | Total votes: 22,430 | ||
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