- Lead
- 410
- Total
- 17,991
- vs nation
- D+3.8
Nebraska 12th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 490
- Total
- 19,174
- vs nation
- R+1.9
- Lead
- 1,512
- Total
- 17,057
- vs nation
- R+11.0
- Lead
- 2,417
- Total
- 15,946
- vs nation
- R+19.0
- Lead
- 1,151
- Total
- 15,984
- vs nation
- R+14.5
- Lead
- 4,411
- Total
- 15,015
- vs nation
- R+26.9
- Lead
- 3,444
- Total
- 13,201
- vs nation
- R+26.6
- Lead
- 2,915
- Total
- 13,027
- vs nation
- R+30.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+2.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 40,6892024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,106 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 13.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $69,7132024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 72.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+21.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+45.9 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 10, NE · twin score 91.7
presidential history
Party record book
Nebraska 12th 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
59.8%
4,354 votes · D+21.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 56.8%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
73.0%
8,017 votes · R+45.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 70.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
9,579votes
50.0% of the vote · D+2.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 9,071 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
9,589votes
63.9% of the vote · R+29.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 9,089 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
+10.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+14.1 · U.S. D+3.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +3.8 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+42.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+40.5 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Gerald Ford, 1976 · +33.0 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.
In 2024 it voted Democratic by D+2.3, against R+7.2 in 2008, having changed party at least once across the five cycles. The district had about 22,900 residents, 68.6% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 21.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 45.9 points in 1972. The 2024 margin was 2.3 points.
A population of 40,689, a 72% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $69,713 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 10 and State Senate District 6.
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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