- Lead
- 606
- Total
- 16,205
- vs nation
- D+5.2
Nebraska 27th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,260
- Total
- 16,402
- vs nation
- D+3.2
- Lead
- 218
- Total
- 14,411
- vs nation
- R+0.6
- Lead
- 155
- Total
- 13,531
- vs nation
- R+2.7
- Lead
- 858
- Total
- 13,574
- vs nation
- R+1.0
- Lead
- 1,626
- Total
- 13,229
- vs nation
- R+9.8
- Lead
- 1,025
- Total
- 11,377
- vs nation
- R+9.5
- Lead
- 25
- Total
- 10,361
- vs nation
- R+8.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+3.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 41,5112024 5-year
- Population density
- 965 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 43 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $74,7642024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 69.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 13.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+32.1 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+58.0 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 26, NE · twin score 93.9
presidential history
Party record book
Nebraska 27th 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
60.0%
3,743 votes · D+19.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 56.0%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
74.4%
844 votes · R+58.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Rutherford B. Hayes, 1876 · 74.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
8,590votes
52.4% of the vote · D+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 8,262 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
7,656votes
47.2% of the vote · D+3.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 7,330 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
+17.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+7.9 · U.S. R+9.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · +12.5 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+46.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+45.1 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · +38.3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 50.7%7,515 | 49.3%7,315 | 14,830 |
Nebraska 27th State Senate District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 32.1 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 58.0 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 3.7 points.
A population of 41,511, a 69% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $74,764 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 26 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 27th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/31027/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.