- Lead
- 1,829
- Total
- 17,922
- vs nation
- D+11.7
Nebraska 26th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,450
- Total
- 18,971
- vs nation
- D+8.5
- Lead
- 925
- Total
- 17,230
- vs nation
- D+3.3
- Lead
- 855
- Total
- 15,709
- vs nation
- D+1.6
- Lead
- 1,661
- Total
- 15,684
- vs nation
- D+3.3
- Lead
- 1,290
- Total
- 15,151
- vs nation
- R+6.1
- Lead
- 554
- Total
- 13,325
- vs nation
- R+4.7
- Lead
- 438
- Total
- 12,138
- vs nation
- R+4.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+10.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 40,1272024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,362 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 9.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $62,0122024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 77.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+30.3 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+51.3 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 27, NE · twin score 93.9
presidential history
Party record book
Nebraska 26th 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
61.5%
4,423 votes · D+22.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 55.3%
Republican
Rutherford B. Hayes1876
75.6%
211 votes · R+51.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 72.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
10,201votes
53.8% of the vote · D+12.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 9,701 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
8,061votes
53.2% of the vote · R+8.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 7,872 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
William J. Bryan1908
+20.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+10.7 · U.S. R+9.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +13.8 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+36.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+34.6 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · +31.2 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.
Anchored in the Omaha metro, Nebraska's 26th Senate district backed the Democratic presidential candidate by double digits in 2024 — a notably wide margin in a state that allocates electoral votes by congressional district.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 30.3 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 51.3 points in 1876. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.2 points.
A population of 40,127, a 77% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,012 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 27 and State Senate District 46.
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 26th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/31026/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.