1980 United States Senate election in Nevada

1980 United States Senate election in Nevada
	County results; Laxalt: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90%
U.S. senator before election; Paul Laxalt; Republican	Elected U.S. Senator ; Paul Laxalt; Republican

The 1980 United States Senate election in Nevada was held on November 4, 1980. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Paul Laxalt won re-election to a second term. As of 2024, this is the last time that the Republicans have won the Class 3 Senate seat from Nevada. 42 years later Laxalt's grandson and former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt would run to take this senate seat in 2022, but narrowly lost to incumbent Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto.

Major candidates

Democratic

Mary Gojack, former State Senator (1974–1978) and former State Assemblywoman (1972–1974)^[1]

Republican

Paul Laxalt, incumbent U.S. Senator since 1974 and former Governor (1967–1971)

Results

General election results^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Paul Laxalt (incumbent)	144,224	58.52%	+11.55%
	Democratic	Mary Gojack	92,129	37.38%	−9.22%
	Libertarian	Allen Hacker	6,920	2.81%
	None of These Candidates		3,163	1.28%
Majority			52,095	21.14%	+20.77%
Turnout			246,436
	Republican hold		Swing

References

^ "Our Campaigns - Candidate - Mary L. Gojack".
^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 1980" (PDF). clerk.house.gov. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 20, 2022.

[1] "Our Campaigns - Candidate - Mary L. Gojack".

[2] "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 1980" (PDF). clerk.house.gov. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 20, 2022.

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