- Lead
- 408
- Total
- 23,407
- vs nation
- R+0.3
Nebraska 18th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 15
- Total
- 21,595
- vs nation
- R+4.4
- Lead
- 1,464
- Total
- 16,539
- vs nation
- R+10.9
- Lead
- 2,332
- Total
- 15,595
- vs nation
- R+18.8
- Lead
- 1,135
- Total
- 15,627
- vs nation
- R+14.5
- Lead
- 4,325
- Total
- 14,679
- vs nation
- R+27.0
- Lead
- 3,340
- Total
- 12,890
- vs nation
- R+26.4
- Lead
- 2,859
- Total
- 12,639
- vs nation
- R+31.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+1.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 41,3172024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,215 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 34 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $108,8272024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 69.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+21.5 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+45.8 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 10, NE · twin score 93.2
presidential history
Party record book
Nebraska 18th 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
60.0%
4,280 votes · D+21.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 57.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
72.9%
7,868 votes · R+45.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 70.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
11,340votes
48.4% of the vote · R+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 10,568 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
11,748votes
50.2% of the vote · R+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 10,553 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
+10.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+13.9 · U.S. D+3.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +3.3 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+42.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+41.0 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Gerald Ford, 1976 · +32.7 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin of just R+1.7, this Omaha-area district sits at the edge of the state's partisan divide, making it a consistent target for both major parties in legislative cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 21.5 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 45.8 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.7 points.
A population of 41,317, a 69% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $108,827 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 12.
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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