Interactive: Where voter turnout was highest (and lowest) in Clark County

By Conor Shine

Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014 | 2 a.m.

The story of the 2014 election in Nevada in many ways boils down to a single factor: voter turnout.

A lack of prominent races on the ballot and growing disenchantment with President Barack Obama kept voters, especially Democrats, at home on election day. Statewide, overall voter turnout was 45 percent, the lowest since 1978. That's well below the 81 percent turnout in 2012 and the 64 percent turnout in 2010.

The effect was even more acute in Clark County, where just 41 percent of registered voters cast a ballot. The low turnout in Clark County diminished the buffer provided by Democrats' 108,000 voter registration advantage, clearing the way for an unprecedented Republican sweep of statewide offices and majorities in both chambers of the Legislature. Despite overall low turnout, several areas in the valley bucked the trend with more than 50 percent of voters turning out to the polls.

In Anthem, turnout ranged from 60 to 75 percent, according to precinct level polling data from the Clark County Elections Department. Parts of Green Valley in Henderson, Summerlin and northwest Las Vegas also showed markedly higher turnout than the rest of the valley. Here's a precinct-by-precinct breakdown comparing the number of registered voters with how many actually cast a ballot.

Note: The darker the precinct, the higher the percentage of voters who turned out. The darkest orange precincts show 100 percent turnout because only one person was registered there. Gray areas are precincts with no turnout because very few people live there. A few precincts do not appear because the Sun could not obtain shape files for those areas.