Nevada HOV Removal

Nevada politician scoreboards

Top-10 leaderboards derived from public-records data: NV SOS Aurora campaign-finance dataset (cf_contributions, cf_expenditures), NPE auditor outputs, and the per-politician profile JSONs.

Methodology and data-source notes: /methodology/

Top fundraisers

By total contributions received across all reported cycles.

  1. $27,336,364 Dean Heller (R) — U.S. Senator 22,070 contributions
  2. $22,656,511 Jon Porter (R) — U.S. Representative, Nevada District 3 11,176 contributions
  3. $21,660,400 Susie Lee (D) — U.S. Representative, Nevada District 3 26,781 contributions
  4. $18,152,196 Shelley Berkley (D) — U.S. Representative, Nevada District 1 20,039 contributions
  5. $16,389,632 John Eric Ensign (R) — U.S. Senator 16,620 contributions
  6. $14,270,687 Sam Brown (R) — U.S. Senator 120,603 contributions
  7. $13,440,071 Adam Laxalt (R) — U.S. Senator 57,267 contributions
  8. $12,400,473 Aaron Ford portraitAaron Ford (D) — Attorney General 14,669 contributions
  9. $11,002,834 Sharron E Angle (R) — U.S. Representative, Nevada District 2 20,876 contributions
  10. $9,752,429 Joe Heck (R) — U.S. Senator 10,478 contributions

Top spenders

By total expenditures reported across all cycles.

  1. $30,464,588 Sharron E Angle (R) — U.S. Representative, Nevada District 2 3,614 expenditures
  2. $27,709,590 Sam Brown (R) — U.S. Senator 5,132 expenditures
  3. $25,672,058 Dean Heller (R) — U.S. Senator 6,787 expenditures
  4. $24,910,936 Joseph Lombardo portraitJoseph Lombardo (R) — Governor 5,413 expenditures
  5. $24,824,561 Susie Lee (D) — U.S. Representative, Nevada District 3 8,616 expenditures
  6. $18,652,448 Adam Laxalt (R) — U.S. Senator 3,558 expenditures
  7. $18,095,464 Shelley Berkley (D) — U.S. Representative, Nevada District 1 8,632 expenditures
  8. $13,283,619 Aaron Ford portraitAaron Ford (D) — Attorney General 9,522 expenditures
  9. $12,177,499 Joe Heck (R) — U.S. Senator 3,351 expenditures
  10. $9,414,002 Jon Porter (R) — U.S. Representative, Nevada District 3 3,774 expenditures

Most concentrated funding

By largest single-donor share. Excludes politicians with fewer than 20 contributions.

  1. 88.6% Jessica Longley (U) — Justice of the Peace, Sparks, Department 3 top donor: Jessica Longley
  2. 83.7% Chris Wilson (N) — Justice of the Peace, Sparks, Department 1 top donor: Chris Wilson
  3. 71.3% Bruce Hahn (N) — Justice of the Peace, Reno, Department 2 top donor: Bruce Hahn
  4. 69.6% Ian Bayne portraitIan Bayne (R) — Nye County Commissioner, District III top donor: Ian Bayne
  5. 61.2% Lisa Chamlee-Brainard (N) — Justice of the Peace, Pahrump, Dept. A top donor: Mountain West Lawyers
  6. 55.1% Michael Clark (R) — Washoe County Commissioner, District 2 top donor: mike Clark
  7. 53.6% Anne Langer (R) — District Attorney, Storey County top donor: Anne Langer
  8. 52.3% Kevin Pasquale (R) — District Attorney, Humboldt County top donor: Kevin Pasquale
  9. 49.6% Sharla Hales (R) — Douglas County Commissioner, District 2 top donor: Sharla Hales
  10. 46.0% Michael Richards (R) — Fallon Municipal Court, Justice of the Peace top donor: Michael Richards

Top lobbyist payors

By total paid to NV-registered lobbyists out of campaign accounts.

  1. $180,040 Paul Anderson portraitPaul Anderson (U) — City of Sparks, City Council, Ward 3 51 payments to lobbyists
  2. $30,500 William McCurdy II portraitWilliam McCurdy II (D) — Clark County Commissioner, District D 3 payments to lobbyists
  3. $16,000 Shelley Berkley portraitShelley Berkley (N) — City of Las Vegas, Mayor 2 payments to lobbyists
  4. $9,485 Aaron Ford portraitAaron Ford (D) — Attorney General 26 payments to lobbyists
  5. $7,930 Elaine Marzola portraitElaine Marzola (D) — Assemblymember, AD-21 6 payments to lobbyists
  6. $7,361 Joe Hardy (R) — Mayor, Boulder City 14 payments to lobbyists
  7. $7,327 Kevin McMahill portraitKevin McMahill (U) — Clark County Sheriff 3 payments to lobbyists
  8. $7,125 Shea Backus portraitShea Backus (D) — Assemblymember, AD-37 5 payments to lobbyists
  9. $6,496 Kathleen Taylor (U) — City of Reno, City Council, Ward 1 4 payments to lobbyists
  10. $5,972 David Marlon (N) — City of Las Vegas, City Council, Ward 5 4 payments to lobbyists

Most accountability flags

Count across all 5 flag types: recusal-failure, quid-pro-quo chains, revolving-door, donor-concentration, state-contractor donors.

  1. 29 Nicole Cannizzaro portraitNicole Cannizzaro (D) — State Senator, SD-6
  2. 21 Steve Yeager portraitSteve Yeager (D) — Assemblymember, AD-9
  3. 13 Sandra Jauregui portraitSandra Jauregui (D) — Assemblymember, AD-41
  4. 10 Aaron Ford portraitAaron Ford (D) — Attorney General
  5. 9 Heidi Kasama portraitHeidi Kasama (R) — Assemblymember, AD-2
  6. 8 Daniele Monroe-Moreno portraitDaniele Monroe-Moreno (D) — Assemblymember, AD-1
  7. 8 Elaine Marzola portraitElaine Marzola (D) — Assemblymember, AD-21
  8. 7 John Ellison portraitJohn Ellison (R) — State Senator, SD-19
  9. 6 Adam Laxalt (R) — U.S. Senator
  10. 6 Bert Gurr portraitBert Gurr (R) — Assemblymember, AD-33

Top mavericks (state legislators)

By lowest pairwise vote-agreement % with same-party peers, across 83rd-Session NELIS roll-call data. Only legislators with at least 3 same-party peers.

  1. 84.0% Robin Titus portraitRobin Titus (R) — State Senator, SD-17 votes with party
  2. 88.0% Lori Rogich portraitLori Rogich (R) — State Senator, SD-11 votes with party
  3. 89.1% John Ellison portraitJohn Ellison (R) — State Senator, SD-19 votes with party
  4. 89.5% Danielle Gallant portraitDanielle Gallant (R) — Assemblymember, AD-23 votes with party
  5. 89.6% John Steinbeck portraitJohn Steinbeck (R) — State Senator, SD-18 votes with party
  6. 89.9% Jill Dickman portraitJill Dickman (R) — Assemblymember, AD-31 votes with party
  7. 89.9% Heidi Kasama portraitHeidi Kasama (R) — Assemblymember, AD-2 votes with party
  8. 90.0% Carrie Ann Buck portraitCarrie Ann Buck (R) — State Senator, SD-5 votes with party
  9. 90.5% Lisa Krasner portraitLisa Krasner (R) — State Senator, SD-16 votes with party
  10. 91.1% Lisa Cole portraitLisa Cole (R) — Assemblymember, AD-4 votes with party

Top party-line voters (state legislators)

By highest pairwise vote-agreement % with same-party peers.

  1. 99.4% Nicole Cannizzaro portraitNicole Cannizzaro (D) — State Senator, SD-6 votes with party
  2. 99.4% Roberta Lange portraitRoberta Lange (D) — State Senator, SD-7 votes with party
  3. 99.4% Julie Pazina portraitJulie Pazina (D) — State Senator, SD-12 votes with party
  4. 99.4% Melanie Scheible portraitMelanie Scheible (D) — State Senator, SD-9 votes with party
  5. 99.4% Fabian Doñate (D) — State Senator, SD-10 votes with party
  6. 99.4% Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-Crawford portraitMichelee "Shelly" Cruz-Crawford (D) — State Senator, SD-1 votes with party
  7. 99.3% Skip Daly (D) — State Senator, SD-13 votes with party
  8. 99.2% Edgar Flores portraitEdgar Flores (D) — State Senator, SD-2 votes with party
  9. 99.2% Marilyn Dondero Loop portraitMarilyn Dondero Loop (D) — State Senator, SD-8 votes with party
  10. 99.1% Daniele Monroe-Moreno portraitDaniele Monroe-Moreno (D) — Assemblymember, AD-1 votes with party