2022 Nevada Attorney General election

The 2022 Nevada Attorney General election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the Attorney General of Nevada. Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford won re-election to a second term in office. As Ford narrowly won Carson City, this was the first time since 2014 that a Democrat had won a county or county-equivalent outside of Clark or Washoe County. Ford's performance was also the best for a Nevada Democrat in a statewide race in 2022, as all other successful Democratic candidates for statewide races won with pluralities of the vote.

2022 Nevada Attorney General election

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Nominee Aaron Ford Sigal Chattah Party Democratic Republican Popular vote 511,263 434,084 Percentage 52.25% 44.36%

County results Congressional district results Precinct results Ford:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90% Chattah:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90% Tie:      40–50%      50%      No votes

Attorney General before election Aaron D. Ford Democratic Elected Attorney General Aaron D. Ford Democratic

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

• Aaron D. Ford, incumbent attorney general^[1]

Disqualified

• Stuart MacKie, attorney and candidate for Governor of Nevada in 2018^[2][1]

Endorsements

Aaron Ford

Organizations

• Brady PAC^[3]
• End Citizens United^[4]
• Giffords^[5]
• Human Rights Campaign^[6]
• NARAL^[7]
• Planned Parenthood Votes Nevada^[8]

Newspapers

• Las Vegas Sun^[9]
• Las Vegas Weekly^[10]

Labor unions

• Nevada AFL–CIO^[11]
• United Auto Workers^[12]

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

• Sigal Chattah, defense attorney and former member of the Southern Nevada Disciplinary Board of the State Bar of Nevada^[13]

Eliminated in primary

• Tisha Black, attorney and former president of the Nevada Cannabis Association^[14]

Debate

2022 Nevada Attorney General Republican primary debate

No.	Date	Host	Moderator	Link	Republican	Republican
Key:  P  Participant   A  Absent   N  Not invited   I  Invited  W  Withdrawn
					Sigal Chattah	Tisha Black
1	May 5, 2022	Nevada Newsmakers	Victor Joecks Sam Shad	[15]	P	P

Polling

Poll source	Date(s) administered	Sample size[a]	Margin of error	Tisha Black	Sigal Chattah	None of These Candidates	Undecided
OH Predictive Insights[16]	May 10–12, 2022	500 (LV)	± 4.4%	18%	15%	29%	37%

Results

Results by county:

  Chattah

•   40–50%
•   50–60%

  Black

•   40–50%

Republican primary results^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Sigal Chattah	112,941	50.99%
	Republican	Tisha Black	88,019	39.74%
	None of These Candidates		20,545	9.28%
Total votes			221,505	100.0%

Libertarian primary

John Kennedy was disqualified from running after he did not meet the requirement for candidates to be members of the State Bar of Nevada. As he was disqualified after general election ballots had already been printed, he remained on the ballot, but any votes he received did not count.^[18]

Candidates

Declared

• John T. Kennedy^[2][1][18]

General election

Post-primary endorsements

Aaron Ford (D)

U.S. Representatives

• Jon Porter, NV-03 (2003–2009) (Republican)^[19]

State officials

• Michael Roberson, former State Senate Minority Leader and Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in 2018 (Republican)^[20]

Individuals

• Herb Santos, attorney (Republican)^[19]
• Jodi Stephens, caucus director for the Nevada State Senate (Republican)^[19]
• Amy Tarkanian, former Nevada Republican Party chair and wife of Danny Tarkanian (Republican)^[21]

Organizations

• Let America Vote^[4]

Newspapers

• Las Vegas Review-Journal^[22]

Predictions

Source	Ranking	As of
Sabato's Crystal Ball[23]	Tossup	November 3, 2022
Elections Daily[24]	Leans D	November 7, 2022

Polling

Poll source	Date(s) administered	Sample size[a]	Margin of error	Aaron Ford (D)	Sigal Chattah (R)	None of These Candidates	Other	Undecided
Emerson College[25]	October 26–29, 2022	2,000 (LV)	± 2.1%	45%	40%	–	–	6%
OH Predictive Insights[26]	October 24–27, 2022	600 (LV)	± 4.0%	43%	35%	3%	5%[b]	15%
Susquehanna Polling and Research (R)[27][c]	October 24–27, 2022	500 (LV)	± 4.3%	44%	41%	1%	10%[d]	4%
University of Nevada, Reno[28]	October 5–19, 2022	576 (LV)	± 4.0%	37%	25%	–	5%[e]	32%
OH Predictive Insights[29]	September 20–29, 2022	741 (LV)	± 3.6%	37%	39%	3%	4%[f]	17%
Suffolk University[30]	August 14–17, 2022	500 (LV)	± 4.4%	33%	28%	4%	12%[g]	23%

Results

2022 Nevada Attorney General election^[31]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Aaron D. Ford (incumbent)	511,263	52.25%	+5.01%
	Republican	Sigal Chattah	434,084	44.36%	−2.41%
	None of These Candidates		33,135	3.39%	+0.74%
Total votes			978,482	100.0%
	Democratic hold

By congressional district

Ford won three of four congressional districts.^[32]

District	Ford	Chattah	Representative
1st	53.1%	40.6%	Dina Titus
2nd	47.5%	48.3%	Mark Amodei
3rd	52.7%	42.0%	Susie Lee
4th	52.6%	41.6%	Steven Horsford

See also

• Nevada Attorney General

Notes

1. Key:
   A – all adults
   RV – registered voters
   LV – likely voters
   V – unclear
2. Kennedy (L) with 4%; "Refused" with 1%
3. Poll conducted for BUSR, an online gambling website.
4. Kennedy (L) with 9%; "Refuse" with 1%
5. "Some other candidate" with 5%
6. Kennedy (L) with 4%
7. Kennedy (L) with 12%