2010 Nevada gubernatorial election

The 2010 Nevada gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, to elect the Governor of Nevada, who would serve a four-year term to begin on January 3, 2011. Despite speculation that incumbent Republican Governor Jim Gibbons would not run for a second term due to low approval ratings, he ran for re-election. He struggled in the polls, and ultimately federal judge and former Attorney General of Nevada Brian Sandoval secured the nomination. Sandoval defeated Democrat Rory Reid, son of then-current U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who won his fifth term in the Senate on the same ballot.

Candidates
A total of five Republican candidates filed with the Secretary of State of Nevada and qualified for the ballot.

Declared

 * Tony Atwood
 * Jim Gibbons, incumbent Governor
 * Stan Lusak, perennial candidate
 * Mike Montandon, Mayor of North Las Vegas
 * Brian Sandoval, former judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada and former Nevada Attorney General

Withdrew

 * Joe Heck, former State Senator (ran for NV-03 and won)

Results
[[File:2010 Nevada gubernatorial Republican primary election results map by county.svg|thumb|250px|Republican primary results by county: Sandoval

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Candidates
Two Democratic candidates filed with the Secretary of State of Nevada and qualified for the ballot.

Declared

 * Frederick Conquest, anthropology professor
 * Rory Reid, Clark County Commissioner and son of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

Declined

 * Barbara Buckley, Speaker of the Nevada Assembly

Results
[[File:2010 Nevada gubernatorial Democratic primary election results map by county.svg|thumb|250px|Democratic primary results by county: Reid

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Declared

 * Eugene "Gino" DiSimone
 * Aaron Y. Honig

Declined

 * Oscar Goodman, Mayor of Las Vegas

Green

 * David Scott Curtis

Independent American

 * Floyd Fitzgibbons

Libertarian

 * Arthur Forest Lampitt

Polling

 * With Gibbons


 * With Montandon

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

 * Clark (largest municipality: Las Vegas)