After two days of early voting, more than 54,000 Democrats and nearly 38,000 Republicans have cast their ballots in the state’s presidential primaries, according to data from the secretary of state’s office last updated Monday morning.
While the party-run Republican caucus is still a week and a half away, nearly all voters registered with either major party have been mailed a ballot for the primaries, and most of the votes cast so far have come via mail ballots.
Fewer than 4,000 Democrats and about 1,500 Republicans voted in-person this past weekend, with the vast majority of them in populous Clark County.
Turnout still remains low. The returned mail ballots accepted for counting represent only about 7.5 percent of the 1.15 million ballots mailed to major party voters.
Here are some other takeaways on turnout through Sunday:
- Mail returns are slower in Clark County.
Voters in the state’s most populous county, home to Las Vegas and Henderson, typically make up upwards of two-thirds of the electorate in each Nevada election. But so far, only about half of ballots cast have come from Clark County. Just under a third have come from Washoe County, with the rest from rural counties.