How the Nevada scores work

The vote records

• We use every Assembly and Senate floor roll call of the term, 1,379 roll calls (687 in the Assembly, 692 in the Senate), Feb. 3, 2025 to Nov. 19, 2025. The members elected on November 5, 2024 took office the next day (Nevada Constitution, Article 4, Sections 3 and 4), and the Legislature, which meets in odd-numbered years, has met twice since:
  • 83rd Session (2025): 665 Assembly and 675 Senate roll calls, Feb. 3, 2025 to June 2, 2025.
  • 36th Special Session (2025): 22 Assembly and 17 Senate roll calls, Nov. 13, 2025 to Nov. 19, 2025.
  NELIS, the Legislature's information system, lists no session since; the 84th Session meets in February 2027.
• Every roll call comes from its chamber's Journal, which the Legislature calls the only official record of floor activity, one for each legislative day. A Journal prints each roll call where it was taken, as the number of yeas and the names of the members voting no, excused, not voting or absent: “Roll call on Assembly Bill No. 44: YEAS—24. NAYS—Cole, Dalia, … Yurek—18.” The members who voted yes are the ones serving that day who aren't named.
• A roll call is used only if every name is one member serving in that chamber that day, no one is named twice, and the members not named are exactly as many as the yeas it prints. 1 doesn’t and is left out (see Who cast each vote).
• A second record of the same votes: NELIS keeps each measure's floor votes with every member's vote by name, as the chamber's voting system recorded it. Each of its 1,372 votes must be a Journal roll call on its measure that day with the same vote for every member, and the vote it says the measure needed must be the Journal's: 1,371 are, and the other is the Assembly's vote on AB 414, left out with its Journal roll call (see Who cast each vote) (NELIS also lists 1 empty entry, with every member absent and “No Vote Recorded”, for a vote never taken). The 8 Journal roll calls NELIS doesn't hold are votes on motions and on resolutions.
• Where a Journal misprints a count or a name, the record settles it only if it leaves no doubt: the Assembly Journal of May 22, 2025 prints 37 yeas on SB 292 with three members voting no and none away, 40 of the 42; NELIS's record has 39 yeas and the same three nays, as the page shows. The Senate Journal of the same day reads Assembly Bill No. 478 a third time, then heads its roll call and result “Senate Bill No. 478”; NELIS has that vote on AB 478, as the page shows. The Assembly Journal of November 16, 2025 spells Assemblymember Jauregui “Jaurgui” in one list.
• Each measure needed either a constitutional majority, a majority of all the members elected to the chamber (22 in the Assembly, 11 in the Senate), or, for a bill that raises public revenue through taxes or fees, two-thirds of them (28 and 14: Article 4, Section 18). The Journal says which in the sentence after the tally (“having received a two-thirds majority”), and each vote page shows it: 81 roll calls needed two-thirds. A measure that got the votes it needed is shown as passed; every result the Journals print agrees with the vote they say was needed.
• Included: final passage of bills and joint resolutions, final passage again after the chamber reconsidered its vote, the adoption of a resolution by roll call, the Senate's two votes to order the previous question (to end debate), and the 2025 special session's motions in the Assembly: to suspend the rules and declare measures an emergency under the Constitution (a two-thirds vote), to reject a bill's referral to a committee, and to appeal the Speaker's ruling allowing members to vote remotely. Each vote page says which it was.
• Left out: votes the Journals record without names, as carried or failed (most motions, and the votes to concur in the other chamber's amendments and to adopt conference reports, which they record as carried “by a constitutional majority”), committee votes, and the attendance roll at the start of a day.
• Whether a question carried is what the Journal prints (“declared it passed”, “declared it lost”, “Motion failed”). 7 Assembly and 2 Senate roll calls failed.
• Contested votes are roll calls where the losing side got at least 10% of the yeas and nays: 182 in the Assembly and 206 in the Senate. Every roll call has its own page. Floor votes lists the contested and party-line ones, and every roll call on request.

Who cast each vote

• The Journals name members by surname (the 2025 special session's Assembly Journals in capitals). Each name goes to the one member of that chamber serving that day with that surname. Every name on every roll call used matched exactly one member.
• Names and terms come from Open States' data on Nevada legislators. Where its dates differ from the records, we follow the records: the terms of the members who left at the 2024 election ended on November 5, 2024, when their successors' began (Open States has November 19). Assemblymember Ken Gray (District 39) resigned in August 2025 for a federal appointment, and Assemblymember Toby Yurek (District 19) in October 2025 to join the Governor's office; their seats were vacant at the Assembly's opening roll call on November 13, 2025 (Assembly Journal). The county commissions appointed Blayne Osborn and Jason Patchett, who took the oath that day. No roll call fell between June 2 and November 13, 2025. Senator Shelly Cruz-Crawford (District 1) is named as the Senate's records name her.
• No legislator changed parties during the term: every member is a Democrat or a Republican, as the Legislature's member pages and the Journals list them.
• Each build checks our current members against each chamber's own list of its members, names and parties: the Legislature's Senate and Assembly member pages.
• Photos are the official portraits on each member's page on the Legislature's site (for the two members who left, their 2025 page), trimmed at the bottom to the site's portrait shape, never enlarged.
• Roll calls left out (1): Assembly, May 29, 2025, AB 414 (Journal page 5965): the Journal prints 16 yeas and 13 nays yet declares it passed; NELIS's record has 27 yeas and 15 nays.

Votes with the Speaker or Senate Majority Leader

• The Speaker of the Assembly, Steve Yeager (District 9), votes like any member; the Assembly declared him Speaker on February 3, 2025. He voted on 685 of 687 Assembly roll calls (nay on 2).
• The Senate is presided over by the Lieutenant Governor, Stavros Anthony, who isn't a senator and votes only to break a tie. Its majority caucus chooses a Majority Leader, Nicole Cannizzaro (District 6), who leads its majority and moves its business on the floor, and a President pro Tempore, Marilyn Dondero Loop (District 8), who presides when the Lieutenant Governor is away. Senators are compared with the Majority Leader. The two agreed on 205 of the 206 contested roll calls both voted on (they split on SB 450, April 17, 2025, 11 to 10), so no senator's score would change by more than a vote with the President pro Tempore. The Majority Leader voted on 690 of 692 Senate roll calls (nay on 0).
• Both leaders are Democrats, the majority party in both chambers.
• The score is the share of roll calls on which the member voted the same way, yea or nay, as their chamber's leader. A roll call counts only when both of them voted yea or nay. The headline number uses contested votes. On unanimous votes nearly everyone agrees with the leader, so the share on all votes, shown alongside, is high for almost everyone.
• A score needs at least 20 votes. The leaders aren't scored against themselves.
• This works like “votes with the President” on the Congress pages, with one difference: the President's position on a bill comes from the White House's public statements, while the leader's position here is the leader's own recorded vote.

Votes with own party

• Counts party-line votes: roll calls where most Democrats voted one way and most Republicans the other (138 in the Assembly, 160 in the Senate). The score is the share of those votes where the member voted with most of their own party. The Congress pages use the same definition.
• Partisan rank orders each chamber's current members by this score, whichever their party: 1 votes with their party most often, and the last votes with it least. Members shown with the same whole percent share a rank, and each legislator's page says how many share it and how many vote with their party more often.
• A score needs at least 20 party-line votes.
• The table of contested votes on each legislator's page marks every contested vote where they voted against most of their party, whether or not it was a party-line vote, so it can list more votes than the score counts.

Didn't vote at roll call

• The share of roll calls, while the member was in office, on which the record shows no vote for them: excused (436 times), not voting or absent with no reason given (23), or abstaining after declaring a conflict of interest on the measure (13: the Journal prints the declaration, and the member is listed as not voting; Assembly and Senate Standing Rules No. 23).
• Neither Journal records a “present” vote.
• “In office” means the roll call lists the member: each one accounts for every seated member, whether or not they voted.

The seat chart

• Each chamber's current members are seats, ordered from most liberal (left) to most conservative (right). There's no DW-NOMINATE score for state legislators, so the order comes from the Legislature's own contested votes: for every pair of members, the share of contested roll calls on which they voted the same way, scaled to one left-right dimension (Poole's agreement-score method, the usual first step of roll-call scaling). Republicans are on the right. A member with fewer than 20 contested votes sits at their party's middle.
• Color uses the same rule as the Congress pages: how often a member crosses party lines toward the middle on party-line votes, siding with the other party alongside their own party's more moderate members. Solid blue or red means almost never; purple means at least 1 in 5 of those votes.
• Nevada legislators break from their party on party-line votes more often than members of Congress: one in ten breaks on at least 13.1% of them, against 7.4% in Congress, and the median legislator on 2.9%, against 1.7%. So the Nevada pages use the color steps of Florida and Oregon, twice Congress's: purple at 20% rather than 10%, then 15, 10, 6 and 3%. That keeps purple for those who cross most often.
• Gray seats: no party-line score.

Bills passed

• Every Assembly and Senate bill of the term's two sessions, the budget bills included: 607 Assembly bills and 518 Senate bills, from NELIS. Resolutions aren't laws and aren't counted. Of the joint resolutions, 12 passed both chambers and were filed with the Secretary of State: 10 memorials urging Congress or a federal agency to act, and 2 proposed constitutional amendments on their first passage, which the next Legislature, in 2027, must agree to before they go to the voters (Article 16, Section 1).
• A bill counts for each of its primary sponsors as NELIS lists them, each tied to the member holding that seat: a Nevada bill can have several, from either chamber, and each is counted in their own chamber. Cosponsors aren't counted, and a bill a committee, the Governor or an agency requested counts for no one.
• Passed both chambers: given a chapter in the Statutes of Nevada (532: each became law) or vetoed by the Governor (87). Each law and veto is on NELIS's lists of the session's measures that became law and that were vetoed, but for SB 99: the Governor returned it without his approval on June 2, 2025 (his letter is in that day's Senate Journal), and NELIS's history and veto list don't record it. The Governor's 33 letters returning bills while the Legislature sat are all counted as vetoes. Neither chamber voted to override a veto; a veto returned after the session ended goes to the next session (Article 4, Section 35), the 84th, in 2027.
• Nevada doesn't mark local bills apart, so every bill counts the same way. The ranked number is bills that passed both chambers.
• Ranks are among current members of the chamber, and among current members of the chamber in the same party: 1 has the most, and members with the same number share a rank. Members who took office during the term had less time to pass bills.

Budget projects

• Nevada's budget bills don't say which legislator asked for an item, so there's no budget figure for Nevada legislators.

The November 3 ballot

• All 42 Assembly seats are on the ballot (members serve two-year terms), and the 11 Senate seats whose four-year terms end this year: Districts 2, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 20 and 21. The other 10 senators were elected in 2024 to terms ending in November 2028.
• The candidates are the ones the Legislative Counsel Bureau's Research Division lists for the November 3, 2026 general election (July 2026), compiled from the Secretary of State's 2026 General Election Statewide Certified List of Candidates: names, districts and parties as printed, with the list's mark for each incumbent, which we check against the member holding the seat. The Secretary of State's own site doesn't answer automated readers, so its list wasn't read directly, and a withdrawal after July wouldn't show here.
• The address lookup and the district map use the Assembly and Senate districts the Legislature drew after the 2020 census, first used in 2022.

Recent key votes

Each legislator's page lists their five most recent key votes, and its voting record opens with their key votes (the newest 300) until the whole record loads. A key vote is a contested or party-line roll call (both as defined above) that gave the chamber's last word on a whole bill, budgets included: its passage, agreeing to the other chamber's changes, adopting a conference committee's report or accepting the Governor's amendments, or a vote to override a veto. We read that from the motion as the record names it. Amendments, procedural motions and the adoption of resolutions aren't key votes, and neither is a motion we haven't listed. This term, 178 of the Nevada Assembly's 687 roll calls and 203 of the Nevada Senate's 692 are key votes.

Next to each key vote is the bill's plain-language explanation where one has been checked against the official text (below); where there isn't one yet, the page says so rather than describe the bill another way.

Bill explanations

Nevada vote pages don't carry an explanation of the bill yet. Each page's title is the measure's summary as NELIS prints it, and the page links to the measure's page in NELIS, where its text, digest and history are.

Data sources and downloads

Everything these pages show can be downloaded, free to reuse. Percent columns ending in “_shown” are the whole numbers the pages show; the counts behind each one are beside it. Terms of reuse

• members.csv: Every Nevada legislator this term with each score, the counts behind it and the whole percent the pages show.
• votes.csv: Every Nevada floor roll call with its totals, whether it was contested or party-line, how the leader and each party's majority voted, and the official record.
• member-votes.csv: How every Nevada legislator voted on every floor roll call.
• bills.csv: Every Nevada bill this term with its sponsors, its kind (statewide, local or claim) and how far it got.

Checks

• PASS: Nevada House: current members match the chamber's own list — 42 members and 0 vacant seats agree
• PASS: Nevada Senate: current members match the chamber's own list — 21 members and 0 vacant seats agree
• PASS: Nevada: every bill's sponsors are legislators on these pages, and their counts add up — 1,206 sponsor credits on 741 bills
• PASS: Nevada: every bill's primary sponsor tied to one legislator or a committee; every bill that passed both chambers law or vetoed, as NELIS's lists and the Governor's letters in the Journals have them — all of them
• PASS: Nevada: the vote-by-vote download's files match the state's settings — member-votes.csv
• PASS: Nevada: the address lookup's file lists every seat's holder — 63 seats
• PASS: Nevada: every vote on the records credited to the right legislator — all matched
• PASS: Nevada: bill explanations are approved and match their official source — 0 vote pages show one
• PASS: Nevada: every vote page's bill has its title — 1379 votes
• PASS: Nevada: every current legislator has an official portrait — 65 portraits
• PASS: Nevada: the current term hasn't ended — through 2026-11-03
• PASS: Nevada: the district map has every seat, and only those — 42 House districts, 21 Senate districts
• PASS: Nevada: every incumbent on the ballot links to their voting record — all linked
• PASS: Nevada: every Journal roll call names every member serving that day once, each tied to the one member holding a seat, and adds up to its printed counts — all 1,379
• PASS: Nevada: every NELIS floor vote is a Journal roll call on its measure that day, member for member — 1,371 of 1,372 paired; 1 left out with its Journal roll call (listed); 0 unpaired; 1 empty entries (no vote taken); 8 Journal roll calls NELIS doesn't hold (motions)
• PASS: Nevada: every result agrees with the vote its Journal says the measure needed — all of them; 81 needed two-thirds
• PASS: Nevada: Nov. 3 legislative candidates cover every seat on the ballot — 53 races