The Sandoval Sweep is unprecedented

When was the last time the Republicans held all constitutional offices and both houses of the Legislature?

Never, say the great folks at the Legislative Counsel Bureau.

Take a look, thanks to what the LCB's research library culled from the Political History of Nevada 2006:

Elections After Which All Nevada Constitutional Offices and Both Houses of the Nevada Legislature Were Held by the Same Party









General Election Year

Constitutional Officers

Session No.

Session Year

Start Date

Sine Die

No. in Senate D/R/Other/All

No. in Assembly D/R/Other/All

1864

6 Unions

1st

1864-65

Dec. 12

March 11

1/0/17/181

2/0/34/362

1866

6 Unions

3rd

1867

Jan. 7

March 7

4/0/15/193

4/0/34/384

1886

6 Unions

13th

1887

Jan. 3

March 3

6/14/0/20

8/32/0/40

1890

6 Unions

15th

1891

Jan. 19

March 19

2/18/0/20

5/35/0/40

1894

6 Silvers

17th

1895

Jan. 21

March 16

2/5/8/155

2/11/17/306

1898

6 Silvers

19th

1899

Jan. 16

March 10

0/5/10/157

1/10/19/308

1934

6 Democrats

37th

1935

Jan. 21

March 21

9/5/3/179

29/10/1/4010

1938

6 Democrats

39th

1939

Jan. 16

March 16

(Tie) 7/7/3/1711

27/11/2/4012

2014

6 Republicans

78th

2015

Feb. 2

 

10/11

17/25

 

November 5, 2014

Elections After Which All Nevada Constitutional Offices and Both Houses of the Nevada Legislature Were Held by the Same Party









General Election Year

Constitutional Officers

Session No.

Session Year

Start Date

Sine Die

No. in Senate D/R/Other/All

No. in Assembly D/R/Other/All

1864

6 Unions

1st

1864-65

Dec. 12

March 11

1/0/17/181

2/0/34/362

1866

6 Unions

3rd

1867

Jan. 7

March 7

4/0/15/193

4/0/34/384

1886

6 Unions

13th

1887

Jan. 3

March 3

6/14/0/20

8/32/0/40

1890

6 Unions

15th

1891

Jan. 19

March 19

2/18/0/20

5/35/0/40

1894

6 Silvers

17th

1895

Jan. 21

March 16

2/5/8/155

2/11/17/306

1898

6 Silvers

19th

1899

Jan. 16

March 10

0/5/10/157

1/10/19/308

1934

6 Democrats

37th

1935

Jan. 21

March 21

9/5/3/179

29/10/1/4010

1938

6 Democrats

39th

1939

Jan. 16

March 16

(Tie) 7/7/3/1711

27/11/2/4012

2014

6 Republicans

78th

2015

Feb. 2

 

10/11

17/25

1 Seventeen Unions (William H. Clagett, Lewis Doron, James W. Haines, D.L. Hastings, William W. Hobart, Fred Hutchins, John Ives, Alfred James, S.A. Kellogg, Charles Lambert, Marcus Larrowe, A.J. Lockwood, Jonas Seely, James S. Slingerland, Charles A. Sumner, M.S. Thompson, Nelson W. Winton) served in the 1864-1865 Senate.
2 Thirty-four Unions (A.C. Bearss, Henry H. Beck, Herman Milton Bien, William W. Bishop, James Bolan, Erastus Bond, D.H. Brown, J.E.W. Carey, William M. Cutter, Samuel C. Denson, J. Angus Dun, Henry Epstein, A.L. Greeley, D.H. Haskell, Cyril Hawkins, J.L. Hinckley, John Leavitt, W.G. Lee, John S. Mayhugh, L.C. McKeeby, J.A. Myrick, B.H. Nichols, H.G. Parker, Edwin Patten, Joseph A. Rigby, Meyer A. Rosenblatt, R.M. Shackleford, E.P. Sine, James W. Small, Jacob Smith, W.F. Toombs, Charles W. Tozer, D.P. Walter, Daniel Wellington, R.A. Young) served in the 1864-1865 Assembly.

3 Thirteen Unions (C. Carpenter, Charles H. Eastman, Theodore D. Edwards, Oscar H. Grey, James W. Haines, D.L. Hastings, Fred Hutchins, Benjamin H. Meder, John E. Nelson, Charles C. Stevenson, Charles A. Sumner, George Terry, D.W. Welty) and two Independents (Lewis Doron, B.S. Mason) served in the 1867 Senate.
4 Thirty-four Unions (Horace H. Bence, Thomas N. Browne, Wallace Caldwell, William M. Cary, Robert Cullen, George H. Dana, Robert D. Ferguson, Gilman N. Folsom, James M. Groves, D.A. Horton, S.E. Huse, J.R. Jacobs, W.T. Jones, Thomas V. Julien, Agusta Koneman, George I. Lammon, A.H. Lissak, E. Mallory, John S. Mayhugh, Miles N. Mitchell, George Munckton, Thomas Parker, P.J. Parmater, B.V. Poor, A.K. Potter, Thomas B. Prince, J.F. Roney, Enoch Strother, J.L. Swaney, Thomas J. Tennant, George W. Walton, John Welch, J.P. Wheeler, A.M. Wingate) served in the 1867 Assembly.

5 Five Silvers (John Gregovich, J.H. Martin, Andrew Maute, Charles A. Richards, J.W. Wilson), two Independents (Robert E. Skaggs, Alexander Wise), and one Peoples (Clinton H. Patchen) served in the 1895 Senate.
6 Fourteen Silvers (Charles E. Allen, Thomas Constant, Horace H. Coryell, James G. Court, James A. Denton, Frank Francis, F.O Gorman, George W. Hinman, George Leidy, A.J. Newman, George Norton Noel, William Charles Pitt, John H. Weiland, Joseph I. Wilson) and three Peoples (Henry H. Beck, H.H. Hogan, Daniel C. McDonald) served in the 1895 Assembly.

7 Eight Silvers (George Ernst, Edward P. Hardesty, Peter Hjul, P.C. Kelly, Al Livingston, J.H. Martin, G.W. Summerfield, S.R. Wasson), one Peoples (James A. Denton), and one Democratic Silver (Frederick C. Lord) served in the 1899 Senate.
8 Seventeen Silvers (F.C. Armstrong, Thomas Jefferson Bradshaw, Horace H. Coryell, Daniel Deady, William Dooley, F.S. Gedney, W.C. Hancock, William J. Henley, Richard Kirman, George Leidy, A.J. McGowan, Webster Patterson, Frank Paul, Robert Raftice, Isaac Strosnider, E.W. Tremont, Robert T. Wilkerson), one Silver-Democrat (Rufus H. Kinney), and one Independent (William Charles Pitt) served in the 1899 Assembly.

9 Three Independents (Lindley Branson, Will Cobb, William W. Carpenter) served in the 1935 Senate. 10 One Independent (Edwin Lauritzen) served in the 1935 Assembly.
11 Three Independents (Will Cobb, John C. Foster, Roland N. Gibson) served in the 1939 Senate.
12 Two Independents (Charles Caldwell, Frederick Talcott) served in the 1939 Assembly. 

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