Nevada's 4th congressional district is a
congressional district
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that was created as a result of the
2010 United States Census. Located in the central portion of the state, it includes most of northern
Clark County, southern
Lyon County and all of
Esmeralda,
Lincoln,
Mineral
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,
Nye and
White Pine counties.
Although the district appears rural, over 80% of its population lives in the heavily Democratic northern portion of Clark County. As a result, the district leans Democratic at the federal level.
The district has flipped between Democratic and Republican representation since it was created.
Democrat Steven Horsford
Steven Alexzander Horsford (born April 29, 1973) is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. representative for Nevada's 4th congressional district since 2019, previously holding the position from 2013 to 2015. A member of the ...
won the election for this seat in the
2012 House elections. He was seated for the 113th U.S. Congress in 2013 as the district's first congressman, serving just one term before he was defeated by Republican
Cresent Hardy in November 2014. In turn, Hardy lost to Democrat
Ruben Kihuen in 2016. Kihuen did not run for reelection in 2018, and the seat was won by Horsford in a rematch against Hardy