Democrats are making a forceful comeback to the Nevada Legislature after devastating losses in 2014 that they vowed never to repeat.
RELATED: Nevada election results
The party seized victory in two fiercely contested southern Nevada state Senate contests, which puts them over the edge to a narrow 11-10 majority.
They also won in a landslide in the Assembly and could claim either 26 or 27 seats in the 42-member chamber. One northern Nevada race favors the Democrat by a razor-thin margin; it's still too close to call.
2016's "blue wave" swept out several freshman Republican Assembly members who won Democratic-leaning districts in 2014's "red wave."
The productive, Republican-controlled Legislature of 2015 passed dozens of bipartisan education reforms and taxes to fund it.
But Democrats chafed at their lack of leverage to stop anti-union bills.
