RENO, Nev. — Nevada voters may make history by electing the country’s first female-majority state legislature Nov. 7, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported.

“In the past, we’ve had to ask women five, six, seven times to run for office,” said Danna Lovell, director of Emerge Nevada, a Democrat-linked candidate training nonprofit based in Las Vegas. “Whereas now, they’re worried. They’re scared about what’s going on in their communities. ... I think there’s an extremely great possibility for a female majority.”

Women, based on their party registration and the partisan makeup of their districts, are favored to control 27 seats heading into the 2019 Nevada Legislature — 19 in the Assembly and eight in the Senate, a Reno Gazette Journal analysis shows.

Still, they have to add at least five additional seats — including four in highly competitive Assembly districts — to secure a 32-seat overall majority.

Women are already close to getting a majority in the 42-member Assembly.

They are expected to hold 19 seats heading into 2019 — 11 Assembly seats sought only by women, seven seats in politically friendly districts where voter registration figures suggest female hopefuls should win comfortably, and one seat won outright in June’s primary election by Reno newcomer Sarah Peters.

If women candidates can unseat incumbents in four districts and defend a seat held by Assemblywoman Lesley Cohen, D-Henderson, they would outnumber men in the 42-seat Assembly and likely lock up a bare majority in the whole Legislature.