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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]
The 2024 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States presidential election in which all 50 states and the District of Columbia participated. Nebraska voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. Nebraska has five electoral votes.
See live updates of Nebraska election results from the 2024 election, including Senate and House races, state elections and ballot initiatives.
Nebraska has three congressional districts due to its population, each of which elects a member to the United States House of Representatives.. Unlike every other U.S. state except for Maine, Nebraska apportions its Electoral College votes according to congressional district, making each district its own separate battleground in presidential elections.
Republican Donald Trump won the electoral vote tied to Nebraska's 1st Congressional District on Wednesday. The former president easily bested Democratic candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris in the district that includes Nebraska's capital city of Lincoln and surrounding rural areas.
On Saturday, Democratic vice presidential nominee and Nebraska native son Tim Walz held a 1,400-person rally in the 2nd District -- the Democratic-leaning area around Omaha, or “blue dot ...
Barack Obama carried the district in 2008 and Joe Biden in 2020, while Mitt Romney won it in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016. All the while, Nebraska as a whole has leaned firmly red.
The first time it split its electoral votes came in 2008 when Barack Obama carried Nebraska's 2nd congressional district, anchored by Omaha, and thus received one electoral vote from the state despite losing statewide. The 2nd district returned to the Republican column in the following two elections, but in 2020 it was considered a key ...