- Lead
- 2,331
- Total
- 12,722
- vs nation
- D+19.8
Nebraska 5th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,948
- Total
- 13,872
- vs nation
- D+16.8
- Lead
- 1,520
- Total
- 12,601
- vs nation
- D+10.0
- Lead
- 930
- Total
- 11,526
- vs nation
- D+4.2
- Lead
- 1,649
- Total
- 11,631
- vs nation
- D+6.9
- Lead
- 815
- Total
- 10,426
- vs nation
- R+5.4
- Lead
- 475
- Total
- 9,489
- vs nation
- R+5.5
- Lead
- 220
- Total
- 9,183
- vs nation
- R+10.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+18.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 40,9702024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,472 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 11.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $65,2542024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 44.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 44.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+41.1 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+33.4 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 7, NE · twin score 95.0
presidential history
Party record book
Nebraska 5th 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. Roosevelt1936
69.9%
4,015 votes · D+41.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 67.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
63.0%
4,705 votes · R+26.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 59.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
8,152votes
58.8% of the vote · D+21.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 7,433 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
5,560votes
53.3% of the vote · R+7.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 5,204 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
Woodrow Wilson1916
+31.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+34.2 · U.S. D+3.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +26.2 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+35.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+33.4 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Gerald Ford, 1976 · +11.7 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Nebraska 5th State Senate District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 41.1 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 33.4 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.3 points.
A population of 40,970, a 44% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,254 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 7 and State Senate District 17.
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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