Election Results
Nebraska voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, though its Omaha-based 2nd congressional district elector went to the Democratic candidate.
Democratic presidential vote share
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).
Republican presidential vote share
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).
- •Nebraska is one of only two states that splits its electoral votes by congressional district.
Governors
Jim Pillen (R) has been governor since 2023; Nebraska is the only state with a single nonpartisan legislative chamber.
| Governor | Party | In office |
|---|---|---|
| Jim Pillen | Republican | 2023–present |
| Dave Heineman | Republican | 2005–2015 |
| Mike Johanns | Republican | 1999–2005 |
| E. Benjamin Nelson | Democratic | 1991–1999 |
| Kay A. Orr | Republican | 1987–1991 |
| Joseph Robert (Bob) Kerrey | Democratic | 1983–1987 |
| Charles Thone | Republican | 1979–1983 |
| John James Exon | Democratic | 1971–1979 |
| Norbert T. Tiemann | Republican | 1967–1971 |
| Frank Brenner Morrison | Democratic | 1961–1967 |
| Dwight Willard Burney | Republican | 1960–1961 |
| Ralph Gilmour Brooks | Democratic | 1959–1960 |
| Victor Emanuel Anderson | Republican | 1955–1959 |
| Robert Berkey Crosby | Republican | 1953–1955 |
| Frederick Valdemar Erastus (Val) Peterson | Republican | 1947–1953 |
| Dwight Palmer Griswold | Republican | 1941–1947 |
| Robert Leroy (Roy) Cochran | Democratic | 1935–1941 |
| Arthur J. Weaver | Republican | 1929–1931 |
| Adam McMullen | Republican | 1925–1929 |
| Samuel Roy McKelvie | Republican | 1919–1923 |
| Keith M. Neville | Democratic | 1917–1919 |
| John Henry Morehead | Democratic | 1913–1917 |
| Chester Hardy Aldrich | Republican | 1911–1913 |
| Ashton Cockayne Shallenberger | Democratic | 1909–1911 |
| George Lawson Sheldon | Republican | 1907–1909 |
| John Hopwood Mickey | Republican | 1903–1907 |
| Ezra Perin Savage | Republican | 1901–1903 |
| Charles Henry Dietrich | Republican | 1901–1901 |
| William Amos Poynter | Populist | 1899–1901 |
| Silas Alexander Holcomb | Populist | 1895–1899 |
| Lorenzo Crounse | Republican | 1893–1895 |
| James E. Boyd | Democratic | 1892–1893 |
| John Milton Thayer | Republican | 1887–1892 |
| James William Dawes | Republican | 1883–1887 |
| Albinus Nance | Republican | 1879–1883 |
| Silas Garber | Republican | 1875–1879 |
| Robert Wilkinson Furnas | Republican | 1873–1875 |
| William Hartford James | Republican | 1871–1873 |
| David Butler | Republican | 1867–1871 |
Source: National Governors Association, current and former governors.
- •Nebraska is one of only two states that split electoral votes by congressional district.
Senators
Nebraska is represented by two Republican U.S. Senators, Deb Fischer and Pete Ricketts.
Democratic vote share, U.S. Senate elections
1976–2020MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse). Regular-term races; special elections only when no regular race was held. Independents (e.g. caucusing with Democrats) are not counted as Democratic; years without a Democratic nominee are omitted.
Republican vote share, U.S. Senate elections
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).
- •Pete Ricketts previously served as Nebraska's governor before being appointed and later elected to the U.S. Senate.
Representatives
Nebraska sends three members to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing districts anchored by Omaha, Lincoln, and the rural rest of the state.
U.S. House seats apportioned to Nebraska
1910–2020U.S. Census Bureau, decennial apportionment counts.
- •Nebraska's 2nd District, covering Omaha, is one of the most competitive swing districts in the country.
Voting Trends
Nebraska has voted Republican in every presidential election since 1968, except for its split electoral vote system which occasionally sends one vote to Democrats via the Omaha district.
Total votes cast for president
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).
- •Nebraska's 2nd congressional district elector went to Barack Obama in 2008 and Joe Biden in 2020.
Party Distribution
Registered Republicans significantly outnumber Democrats in Nebraska, though the state's legislature is officially nonpartisan.
- •Nebraska's unicameral legislature is the only nonpartisan state legislature in the U.S.