- Lead
- 4,348
- Total
- 15,796
- vs nation
- D+29.0
Nebraska 13th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,917
- Total
- 16,690
- vs nation
- D+25.0
- Lead
- 4,027
- Total
- 15,378
- vs nation
- D+24.1
- Lead
- 3,252
- Total
- 14,257
- vs nation
- D+19.0
- Lead
- 4,340
- Total
- 14,811
- vs nation
- D+22.0
- Lead
- 975
- Total
- 12,654
- vs nation
- D+10.2
- Lead
- 1,040
- Total
- 11,402
- vs nation
- D+8.6
- Lead
- 1,277
- Total
- 11,073
- vs nation
- D+3.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+27.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 41,0992024 5-year
- Population density
- 825 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 49.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $63,2892024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 45.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 28.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+53.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+18.3 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 11, NE · twin score 91.8
presidential history
Party record book
Nebraska 13th 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
76.3%
5,690 votes · D+53.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 73.7%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
55.8%
4,945 votes · R+11.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 52.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
10,602votes
63.5% of the vote · D+29.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 9,939 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
5,768votes
45.6% of the vote · D+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 5,685 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
+43.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+46.9 · U.S. D+3.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +39.5 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+20.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+18.3 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1992 · −2.1 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%9,311 | 49.7%9,200 | 18,511 |
| 2018 | D | 51.6%7,335 | 48.4%6,882 | 14,217 |
Nebraska 13th State Senate District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 53.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 18.3 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 27.5 points.
A population of 41,099, a 46% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $63,289 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 11 and State Senate District 65.
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 13th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/31013/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.