Our spreadsheet and rolling updates show who is in and who is out for races across Nevada.

Candidate filing is still months away — next March for those seeking a statewide, legislative or local government seat — but campaign season is already chugging along, with Republicans and Democrats announcing for public office.

Though judicial candidates cannot file until Jan. 5, and candidates for local government, the Legislature and statewide elections cannot file until March 2, some individuals seeking to attain or maintain a seat have already announced their candidacy and begun fundraising.

To keep you up to date on who has announced a bid for office, staff at The Nevada Independent is using this page to track announcements for public offices in Nevada.

For a full breakdown of who has announced so far, check out our tracker and live updates below. 

Where applicable, candidates who are incumbents are denoted with a star, and party is indicated with colors and a letter following the name of the candidate, red for Republicans (R), blue for Democrats (D) and gray for nonpartisans (NP).  Third-party candidates are marked similarly. Races without declared candidates are not yet listed.

It’s worth noting that nothing is official until candidates actually file for office, so this tracker will likely change. 

Read further below for details on candidate announcements and how races are playing out.

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Live Updates:

Toby Yurek resigns from Assembly to help Lombardo re-election campaign

Assm. Toby Yurek (R-Las Vegas) is resigning from the Assembly and won’t run for re-election, instead taking on a role helping Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo with his re-election fundraising. 

In a statement Friday, Lombardo said Yurek would become one of his special policy advisers and “serve as a member of our statewide finance committee.”

Spokesperson Eric Roberts later clarified that Yurek’s new finance role will be with Gov. Lombardo’s 2026 re-election campaign.

Yurek was first elected to his Southern Nevada Assembly seat in 2022 and was re-elected in 2024. Both general election races were uncontested. Assembly District 19, which leans Republican by registration, includes northeastern portions of Clark County, including Moapa, Mesquite and parts of Henderson.

Yurek spent 20 years as an officer with the Henderson Police Department before becoming a lawyer, receiving his Juris Doctor from UNLV. He is currently a managing partner at a Las Vegas-based law firm. 

The announcement makes Yurek the fourth Assembly Republican to resign or announce plans to run for a different office. Assm. Ken Gray (R-Dayton) resigned in August after being appointed to a position with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Assm. Philip “P.K.” O’Neill (R-Carson City) will retire from the Assembly when his term ends next November and Assm. Heidi Kasama (R-Las Vegas) is running for an open seat on the Clark County Commission.

Four Democratic state assemblymembers have announced they are not running for re-election. 

— Kate Reynolds, 10/3/25 at 12:05 p.m.

23 Assembly Democrats announce re-election bids

Twenty-three Democrats in the Nevada Assembly announced Thursday that they will run for re-election, leaving only four incumbents in the caucus who do not intend to run for their seats next year.

In the 2024 election cycle, 10 Democratic assemblymembers did not run for re-election.

The three highest-ranking members of the caucus are among those not seeking re-election: Speaker Steve Yeager (D-Las Vegas), Majority Leader Sandra Jauregui (D-Las Vegas) and Speaker Pro Tempore Daniele Monroe-Moreno (D-North Las Vegas). Monroe-Moreno is running for mayor of North Las Vegas, while Yeager and Jauregui have not announced if they will seek another office.

The fourth to not run for re-election is freshman Assm. Joe Dalia (D-Henderson), who is eyeing the open treasurer position.

— Eric Neugeboren, 10/2/25 at 3:10 p.m.

City Councilmember Devon Reese announces Reno mayor bid

Devon Reese, a Reno city councilmember in his second full term, announced his bid for mayor of Reno Tuesday, adding another candidate to an increasingly crowded race to replace termed-out incumbent Hillary Schieve. 

Reese, a lawyer who specializes in representing labor unions, small government entities and families, has served on the council since 2019, first as an appointee and then as an elected representative of the at-large seat, and now as elected representative of Ward 5 after the at-large seat was eliminated during redistricting. His appointment made him the first openly gay member of Reno’s City Council, and a year later, he became Reno’s first openly gay vice mayor.

Reno council and mayor races are nonpartisan, meaning that candidates do not declare their political party, but Reese is registered and previously ran for office as a Democrat, according to the secretary of state’s website. 

His policy priorities include building a park along the river, expanding affordable housing and small business opportunities, increasing protections for drinking water and natural resources, and opening a police substation in each region of the city, according to his campaign website. 

Former Nevada Lt. Gov. Kate Marshall and Ward 1 Councilmember Kathleen Taylor are also running for mayor. Local businessman and frequent mayoral candidate Eddie Lorton has also tossed his hat in the ring. 

— Isabella Aldrete, 9/16/25 at 11 a.m.