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2 candidates are tracked for Nevada Assembly District 8 on the November 3, 2026 ballot: Joseph "Joey" Charafi and Duy Ngoc Nguyen. Candidate information follows official Clark County election filings; verify with the official election office linked below.
Joseph "Joey" Charafi (Republican), Duy Ngoc Nguyen (Democratic) are on the November 3 ballot for Nevada Assembly District 8; Duy Ngoc Nguyen is the sitting member, per the Nevada Legislature's current member roster (leg.state.nv.us). Republican and Democratic nominees were chosen at the June 9, 2026 primary (or are unopposed filers, per the Secretary of State's filing list, when no primary contest was recorded); Independent American Party, Libertarian Party of Nevada, and No Political Party filers advance straight to November without a primary. Field per the Secretary of State's Aurora candidate filing list, as read September 11, 2026, applying the official primary results at https://www.nvsos.gov/SOSelectionPages/results/2026StateWidePrimary/ElectionSummary.aspx; the SOS certified general-election list settles any filing-to-ballot discrepancy. This seat is elected by district; only the district covering your address appears on your ballot.
Joseph "Joey" Charafi is a Republican candidate for Nevada Assembly District 8 who founded the Stop the Traffic Foundation, an anti-trafficking nonprofit, and has worked more than 15 years as a business owner in media, production and logistics, according to his campaign site.
2026 priorities (per the campaign site)
- Wants a statewide Safe Haven network with faster crisis routing for child trafficking cases
- Supports a public spending dashboard making county contracts and vendor payments searchable
- Wants to promote a creative and tech accelerator and reduce regulatory barriers for small businesses
Source: candidate campaign site, roster verified 2026-07-25.
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Duy Nguyen is a nonprofit executive and small business owner who has represented Assembly District 8 since 2022, per Nevada Legislature official profile. Born in Vietnam, he previously served on the Clark County Planning Commission and chaired the Nevada Minority Health and Equity Coalition, per Nevada Legislature official profile. No campaign website or questionnaire response was found as of September 11, 2026; the Secretary of State's filing list is the only verifiable source for Duy Ngoc Nguyen.
