- Lead
- 1,659
- Total
- 10,232
- vs nation
- D+17.7
Nebraska 46th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,351
- Total
- 11,186
- vs nation
- D+16.6
- Lead
- 1,556
- Total
- 10,226
- vs nation
- D+13.1
- Lead
- 1,531
- Total
- 9,368
- vs nation
- D+12.5
- Lead
- 1,977
- Total
- 9,419
- vs nation
- D+13.7
- Lead
- 283
- Total
- 8,864
- vs nation
- D+5.7
- Lead
- 426
- Total
- 7,869
- vs nation
- D+4.9
- Lead
- 989
- Total
- 7,209
- vs nation
- D+5.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+16.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 38,9412024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,094 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 18.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $55,9112024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 68.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 7.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 11.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+39.3 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+47.7 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 26, NE · twin score 89.4
presidential history
Party record book
Nebraska 46th 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
66.9%
2,947 votes · D+33.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 62.2%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
67.7%
1,907 votes · R+36.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 65.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
6,495votes
58.1% of the vote · D+21.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 5,844 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
4,211votes
47.5% of the vote · D+3.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 4,185 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
+32.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+22.9 · U.S. R+9.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +25.6 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+31.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+29.5 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · +28.0 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Anchored in inner Omaha, this district recorded a D+16.2 presidential margin in 2024, making it one of the bluest constituencies in Nebraska's officially nonpartisan unicameral legislature.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 39.3 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 47.7 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 16.2 points.
A population of 38,941, a 68% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $55,911 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 25.
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 46th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/31046/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.