- Lead
- 6,938
- Total
- 16,015
- vs nation
- D+44.8
Nebraska 9th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 7,863
- Total
- 18,148
- vs nation
- D+38.9
- Lead
- 4,986
- Total
- 15,652
- vs nation
- D+29.8
- Lead
- 4,147
- Total
- 13,925
- vs nation
- D+25.9
- Lead
- 5,302
- Total
- 14,627
- vs nation
- D+29.0
- Lead
- 1,878
- Total
- 12,360
- vs nation
- D+17.7
- Lead
- 1,849
- Total
- 11,106
- vs nation
- D+16.1
- Lead
- 2,026
- Total
- 11,059
- vs nation
- D+9.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+43.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 40,3062024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,841 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 6.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $60,5902024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 68.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 7.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+72.1 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+13.4 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 8, NE · twin score 93.1
presidential history
Party record book
Nebraska 9th 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
Samuel J. Tilden1876
86.0%
228 votes · D+72.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 78.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
51.5%
4,297 votes · R+3.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 48.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
12,675votes
69.8% of the vote · D+43.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 11,347 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
5,113votes
41.4% of the vote · D+15.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 4,812 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
+45.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+48.8 · U.S. D+3.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Smith, 1928 · +45.0 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+15.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+13.4 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1992 · −8.0 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | D | 50.3%9,131 | 49.7%9,022 | 18,153 |
| 2018 | D | 51.6%7,193 | 48.4%6,749 | 13,942 |
Nebraska 9th State Senate District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 72.1 points in 1876 and a Republican high of 13.4 points in 1892. The 2024 margin was 43.3 points.
A population of 40,306, a 68% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $60,590 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 8 and State Senate District 28.
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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Nebraska 9th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/31009/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.