- Lead
- 8,416
- Total
- 19,089
- vs nation
- R+42.6
Nebraska 1st State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,363
- Total
- 19,583
- vs nation
- R+47.2
- Lead
- 7,604
- Total
- 17,839
- vs nation
- R+44.7
- Lead
- 4,767
- Total
- 17,339
- vs nation
- R+31.3
- Lead
- 3,445
- Total
- 18,028
- vs nation
- R+26.4
- Lead
- 6,989
- Total
- 19,256
- vs nation
- R+33.8
- Lead
- 5,156
- Total
- 17,812
- vs nation
- R+29.5
- Lead
- 2,664
- Total
- 18,088
- vs nation
- R+23.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+44.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 38,6812024 5-year
- Population density
- 16 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2,382 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $67,0202024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 88.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+25.3 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+46.7 in 1952MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 38, NE · twin score 93.4
presidential history
Party record book
Nebraska 1st State Senate District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
62.2%
18,874 votes · D+25.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 54.0%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
73.4%
20,724 votes · R+46.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 71.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
18,874votes
62.2% of the vote · D+25.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 18,101 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
20,724votes
73.4% of the vote · R+46.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 20,130 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
John W. Davis1924
+11.4pts D vs U.S.
Place R+13.8 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +8.6 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+47.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+42.7 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +44.7 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
A 14-point two-party swing toward the Republican candidate was recorded in State Senate District 1 in Nebraska between the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections, the largest movement between consecutive elections in the available record. The 2024 margin was R+44, the strongest Republican margin across the elections covered. That figure stands as the peak Republican result in a series that spans the 2008 through 2024 presidential contests, with the 2012 to 2016 interval marking the sharpest single shift within that arc. The district had about 38,822 residents in the 2024 ACS five-year estimate. Its median age was 42.5 in the same estimate. The presidential record assembled for the district covers the 2008 through 2024 elections, with the R+44 margin in 2024 representing the most recent data point in that series.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 25.3 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 46.7 points in 1952. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 44.1 points.
A population of 38,681, a 88% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $67,020 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 38 and State Senate District 16.
The state-senate districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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