United States presidential elections in Nebraska
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Since its admission to statehood in 1867, Nebraska has participated in every U.S. presidential election. Since 1992 Nebraska awards two electoral votes based on the statewide vote, and one vote for each of the three congressional districts.[1][2] The only other state to allow for split electoral college votes is Maine.[3] Republicans in Nebraska have attempted to switch the state back to the Winner-take-all system without success. Proposals to institute winner-take-all passed the Nebraska Legislature in 1995 and 1997 but were vetoed by Democratic governor Ben Nelson. In 2016, an effort to institute winner-take-all failed after two Republicans switched their vote at the last minute.[4] A renewed push for winner-take-all, with support from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, was attempted in 2024.[5][6][7]
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| Number of elections | 40 |
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| Voted Democratic | 7 |
| Voted Republican | 33 |
| Voted other | 0 |
| Voted for winning candidate | 25 |
| Voted for losing candidate | 15 |
Nebraska is a predominantly Republican state, making it a rare occurrence for a Democrat to win the state in its entirety. Since 1940, the Democratic Party has only secured the full slate of electoral votes once—during the 1964 election, when President Lyndon B. Johnson achieved a landslide victory on the national scale.[8] However, in more recent elections, the Democratic Party has been able to capture a single electoral vote from Nebraska's 2nd congressional district.[9][10] Democrats have nicknamed the district the blue dot from its depiction on electoral maps surrounded by red states.[11]
Presidential elections
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| Candidate | Votes | % | EV | Candidate | Votes | % | EV | Candidate | Votes | % | EV | |||||
| Ulysses S. Grant‡ (R) | 9,772 | 63.91% | 3 | Horatio Seymour (D) | 5,519 | 36.09% | 0 | – |
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| Ulysses S. Grant‡ (R) | 18,329 | 70.68% | 3 | Horace Greeley (LR) | 7,603 | 29.32% | 0 | – |
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| Rutherford B. Hayes‡ (R) | 31,915 | 64.7% | 3 | Samuel J. Tilden (D) | 17,413 | 35.3% | 0 | – |
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| James A. Garfield‡ (R) | 54,979 | 62.87% | 3 | Winfield S. Hancock (D) | 28,523 | 32.62% | 0 | James B. Weaver (GB) | 3,950 | 4.52% | 0 | |||||
| James G. Blaine (R) | 76,912 | 57.31% | 5 | Grover Cleveland‡ (D) | 54,391 | 40.53% | 0 | John Pierce St. John (PRO) | 2,899 | 2.16% | 0 | |||||
| Benjamin Harrison‡ (R) | 108,425 | 53.51% | 5 | Grover Cleveland (D) | 80,552 | 39.75% | 0 | Clinton Bowen Fisk (PRO) | 9,429 | 4.65% | 0 | |||||
| Benjamin Harrison (R) | 87,213 | 43.56% | 8 | James B. Weaver (PO) | 83,134 | 41.53% | 0 | Grover Cleveland‡ (D) | 24,943 | 12.46% | 0 | |||||
| William Jennings Bryan (D) | 115,007 | 51.53% | 8 | William McKinley‡ (R) | 103,064 | 46.18% | 0 | John M. Palmer (ND) | 2,885 | 1.29% | 0 | |||||
| William McKinley‡ (R) | 121,835 | 50.46% | 8 | William Jennings Bryan (D) | 114,013 | 47.22% | 0 | John G. Woolley (PRO) | 3,655 | 1.51% | 0 | |||||
| Theodore Roosevelt‡ (R) | 138,558 | 61.38% | 8 | Alton B. Parker (D) | 52,921 | 23.44% | 0 | Thomas E. Watson (PO) | 20,518 | 9.09% | 0 | |||||
| William Jennings Bryan (D) | 131,099 | 49.14% | 8 | William Howard Taft‡ (R) | 126,997 | 47.6% | 0 | Eugene W. Chafin (PRO) | 5,179 | 1.94% | 0 | |||||
| Woodrow Wilson‡ (D) | 109,008 | 44.77% | 8 | Theodore Roosevelt (PR-1912) | 72,681 | 29.85% | 0 | William Howard Taft (R) | 54,226 | 22.27% | 0 | |||||
| Woodrow Wilson‡ (D) | 158,827 | 55.28% | 8 | Charles Evans Hughes (R) | 117,347 | 40.84% | 0 | Allan L. Benson (S) | 7,141 | 2.49% | 0 | |||||
| Warren G. Harding‡ (R) | 247,498 | 64.66% | 8 | James M. Cox (D) | 119,608 | 31.25% | 0 | Eugene V. Debs (S) | 9,600 | 2.51% | 0 | |||||
| Calvin Coolidge‡ (R) | 218,585 | 47.09% | 8 | John W. Davis (D) | 137,289 | 29.58% | 0 | Robert M. La Follette (PR-1924) | 106,701 | 22.99% | 0 | |||||
| Herbert Hoover‡ (R) | 345,745 | 63.19% | 8 | Al Smith (D) | 197,959 | 36.18% | 0 | Norman Thomas (S) | 3,434 | 0.63% | 0 | |||||
| Franklin D. Roosevelt‡ (D) | 359,082 | 62.98% | 7 | Herbert Hoover (R) | 201,177 | 35.29% | 0 | Norman Thomas (S) | 9,876 | 1.73% | 0 | |||||
| Franklin D. Roosevelt‡ (D) | 347,445 | 57.14% | 7 | Alf Landon (R) | 247,731 | 40.74% | 0 | William Lemke (U) | 12,847 | 2.11% | 0 | |||||
| Wendell Willkie (R) | 352,201 | 57.19% | 7 | Franklin D. Roosevelt‡ (D) | 263,677 | 42.81% | 0 | – |
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| Thomas E. Dewey (R) | 329,880 | 58.58% | 6 | Franklin D. Roosevelt‡ (D) | 233,246 | 41.42% | 0 | – |
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| Thomas E. Dewey (R) | 264,774 | 54.15% | 6 | Harry S. Truman‡ (D) | 224,165 | 45.85% | 0 | Write-in | 1 | 0% | 0 | |||||
| Dwight D. Eisenhower‡ (R) | 421,603 | 69.15% | 6 | Adlai Stevenson III (D) | 188,057 | 30.85% | 0 | – |
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower‡ (R) | 378,108 | 65.51% | 6 | Adlai Stevenson III (D) | 199,029 | 34.49% | 0 | – |
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| Richard Nixon (R) | 380,553 | 62.07% | 6 | John F. Kennedy‡ (D) | 232,542 | 37.93% | 0 | – |
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| Lyndon B. Johnson‡ (D) | 307,307 | 52.61% | 5 | Barry Goldwater (R) | 276,847 | 47.39% | 0 | – |
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| Richard Nixon‡ (R) | 321,163 | 59.82% | 5 | Hubert Humphrey (D) | 170,784 | 31.81% | 0 | George Wallace (AI) | 44,904 | 8.36% | 0 | |||||
| Richard Nixon‡ (R) | 406,298 | 70.5% | 5 | George McGovern (D) | 169,991 | 29.5% | 0 | – |
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| Gerald Ford (R) | 359,705 | 59.19% | 5 | Jimmy Carter‡ (D) | 233,692 | 38.46% | 0 | Eugene McCarthy (I) | 9,409 | 1.55% | 0 | |||||
| Ronald Reagan‡ (R) | 419,937 | 65.53% | 5 | Jimmy Carter (D) | 166,851 | 26.04% | 0 | John B. Anderson (I) | 44,993 | 7.02% | 0 | |||||
| Ronald Reagan‡ (R) | 460,054 | 70.55% | 5 | Walter Mondale (D) | 187,866 | 28.81% | 0 | David Bergland (LI) | 2,079 | 0.32% | 0 | |||||
| George H. W. Bush‡ (R) | 398,447 | 60.15% | 5 | Michael Dukakis (D) | 259,646 | 39.2% | 0 | Ron Paul (LI) | 2,536 | 0.38% | 0 | |||||
| George H. W. Bush (R) | 344,346 | 46.58% | 5 | Bill Clinton‡ (D) | 217,344 | 29.4% | 0 | Ross Perot (I) | 174,687 | 23.63% | 0 | |||||
| Bob Dole (R) | 363,467 | 53.65% | 5 | Bill Clinton‡ (D) | 236,761 | 34.95% | 0 | Ross Perot (RE) | 71,278 | 10.52% | 0 | |||||
| George W. Bush‡ (R) | 433,862 | 62.25% | 5 | Al Gore (D) | 231,780 | 33.25% | 0 | Ralph Nader (G) | 24,540 | 3.52% | 0 | |||||
| George W. Bush‡ (R) | 512,814 | 65.9% | 5 | John Kerry (D) | 254,328 | 32.68% | 0 | Ralph Nader (RE) | 5,698 | 0.73% | 0 | |||||
| John McCain (R) | 452,979 | 56.53% | 4 | Barack Obama‡ (D) | 333,319 | 41.6% | 1 | Ralph Nader (I) | 5,406 | 0.67% | 0 | |||||
| Mitt Romney (R) | 475,064 | 59.8% | 5 | Barack Obama‡ (D) | 302,081 | 38.03% | 0 | Gary Johnson (LI) | 11,109 | 1.4% | 0 | |||||
| Donald Trump‡ (R) | 495,961 | 58.75% | 5 | Hillary Clinton (D) | 284,494 | 33.7% | 0 | Gary Johnson (LI) | 38,946 | 4.61% | 0 | |||||
| Donald Trump (R) | 556,846 | 58.22% | 4 | Joe Biden‡ (D) | 374,583 | 39.17% | 1 | Jo Jorgensen (LI) | 20,283 | 2.12% | 0 | |||||
| Donald Trump‡ (R) | 564,816 | 59.32% | 4 | Kamala Harris (D) | 369,995 | 38.86% | 1 | Chase Oliver (LI) | 6,399 | 0.67% | 0 | |||||
See also
Notes
- Obama won in the 2nd district.
- Biden won in the 2nd district.
- Harris won in the 2nd district.