- Lead
- 5,646
- Total
- 17,077
- vs nation
- D+34.5
Nebraska 28th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,247
- Total
- 18,052
- vs nation
- D+30.1
- Lead
- 4,482
- Total
- 16,374
- vs nation
- D+25.3
- Lead
- 4,443
- Total
- 15,066
- vs nation
- D+25.6
- Lead
- 5,260
- Total
- 15,501
- vs nation
- D+26.7
- Lead
- 2,349
- Total
- 14,206
- vs nation
- D+19.0
- Lead
- 2,358
- Total
- 12,348
- vs nation
- D+18.6
- Lead
- 3,007
- Total
- 11,734
- vs nation
- D+17.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+33.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 39,6922024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,924 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 6.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $50,2312024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 71.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 10.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+46.0 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+24.8 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 18, IA · twin score 91.7
presidential history
Party record book
Nebraska 28th 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
73.0%
5,309 votes · D+46.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 69.6%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
62.0%
2,542 votes · R+24.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 52.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
11,887votes
65.8% of the vote · D+34.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 11,201 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
5,742votes
40.4% of the vote · D+16.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 5,640 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
+43.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+34.1 · U.S. R+9.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +38.7 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+21.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+19.5 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +7.3 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.
Nebraska's 28th district, anchored in inner Omaha, returned a D+33.1 presidential margin in 2024, making it one of the most reliably left-leaning constituencies in a state that otherwise trends Republican statewide.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 46.0 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 24.8 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 33.1 points.
A population of 39,692, a 72% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $50,231 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 18 and State Senate District 9.
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 28th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/31028/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.