A sense that the blue wave sweeping the U.S. would also wash through Nevada became apparent at a gathering of Democrats in Las Vegas Tuesday evening, hours before the state began reporting preliminary election results around midnight.

One by one, Nevada’s congressional Democrats who took the stage at the Meet Las Vegas venue celebrated colleagues’ victories across the U.S. Attendees cheered at a TV broadcast showing Republican defeats in red states like Kansas and Texas, and erupted when they learned that their party had flipped the House and Senate.

“I wish they were putting our numbers up there,” U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., told the crowd. “But I think it’s looking very good.”

Attorney General Aaron Ford was mid-speech early Wednesday morning when he learned that Nevada had finally dropped preliminary results, showing he was ahead of Gov.…