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The 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012 and elected the four U.S. Representatives from Nevada, one from each of the state's four congressional districts, an increase of one seat in reapportionment following the 2010 United States Census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms; those elected will serve in the 112th Congress from January 2013 until January 2015. The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices, including a quadrennial presidential election, and an election to the U.S. Senate. Primary elections were held on June 12, 2012.
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District 1
Democrat Shelley Berkley, who had represented Nevada's 1st congressional district since 1999, ran for the U.S. Senate.
Former U.S. Representative Dina Titus, who represented the 3rd district from 2009 until 2011, sought and received the Democratic nomination to succeed Berkley. State Senator Ruben Kihuen had also planned to seek the Democratic nomination, but ended his campaign in February 2012.
Chris Edwards, a security strategic planner and Navy officer, sought and received the Republican nomination to challenge Titus. He defeated Charmaine Guss, an anti-abortion activist and former real estate broker; Brian Landsberger, a retired mechanical engineer and former Air Force fighter pilot; Herb Peters, a retired aerospace engineer and seven-time Libertarian candidate for Congress in California; and Miguel "Mike" Rodrigues, an elementary school principal, in the Republican primary.
Stan Vaughan ran as the nominee of the Independent American Party of Nevada. Bill Pojunis ran as the nominee of the Libertarian Party of Nevada.
District 2
Republican Mark Amodei, who has represented Nevada's 2nd congressional district since being elected in a special election in September 2011, is running for re-election. Former state Assemblywoman Sharron Angle, who unsuccessfully ran as the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2010, decided not to challenge Amodei in a primary.
Samuel Koepnick, an information technology employee for the state of Nevada, sought and received the Democratic nomination to challenge Amodei. He defeated Sam Dehne, a retired pilot, and Xiomara Rodriguez, a retired businesswoman, in the Democratic primary.
Russell Best, a real estate broker and Navy veteran, is running as the nominee of the Independent American Party of Nevada.
District 3
Republican Joe Heck, who has represented Nevada's 3rd congressional district since January 2011, is running for re-election. Chris Dyer, a food service employee and Army and Navy veteran, unsuccessfully challenged Heck in the Republican primary.
John Oceguera, the Speaker of the Nevada Assembly, won the Democratic primary against Stephen Frye, a psychiatrist; James F. Haning II, a businessman; Jesse "Jake" Holder, a former Navy officer and Political Science student at UNLV and ; Barry Michaels, a businessman; and Gerald "Jerry" Sakura, a retired business executive. Former U.S. Representative Dina Titus, who represented the 3rd district from 2009 until 2011 and unsuccessfully sought re-election in 2010, is running in the 1st district.
Tom Jones, a retired businessman, is running as the nominee of the Independent American Party of Nevada. James Murphy, a retired airline captain, is running as an Independent.
District 4
Nevada's 4th congressional district will be created for the 2012 elections as a result of reapportionment following the 2010 United States Census.
Steven Horsford, the majority leader of the Nevada Senate, received the Democratic nomination for the new seat unopposed. Fellow Democratic state Senator John Lee announced in October 2011 that he would run for the seat, but dropped his bid in November 2011.
Danny Tarkanian, a businessman who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2010, sought and received the nomination for the new seat. He defeated Diana Anderson, a retired clerical worker; state Senator Barbara Cegavske; Mike Delarosa, a detention officer; Kiran Hill, a translator for the State Department; Robert Leeds, an author and former Merchant Marine; Dan Schwartz, a businessman; Kenneth Wegner, a retired Army veteran and Republican nominee for the 1st district in 2006, 2008, and 2010; and Sid Zeller, a retired Marine intelligence officer, in the Republican primary..
Floyd Fitzgibbons, an insurance agent, is running as the nominee of the Independent American Party of Nevada. Joseph Silvestri, a teacher and chairman of the Libertarian Party of Nevada, is also running.