2026 results · Nebraska

Pete Ricketts, the Republican, wins Nebraska’s Senate race by 6.2 points

Pete Ricketts, the Republican, won the Senate seat by 6.2 points.

The governor's race moved 12.6 points toward Democrats from the 2024 presidential vote.

In the House, every one of the three contested seats moved toward Democrats, the median one 9.4 points.

Who won each county, and how far it moved

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Nebraska’s three House seats

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Solid: won. The tick marks a majority (2 of 3). 1 seat changes party: NE-02.

Democrats lost 1 seat by under 4 points: NE-01 R+3.5. A majority took 2 of 3; they held 1, and the closest would have made it.

The seat that decided the majority: NE-01, R+3.5, a district that voted R+12.9 for president in 2024.

Every seat, 2024 to 2026. Open circle: the 2024 presidential margin in the district. Filled: the 2026 House margin. Ordered from the most Democratic result to the most Republican; the rule marks the 2 seats needed for a majority.

← moved toward Democrats, → toward Republicans, in points from the 2024 presidential vote in the district. * still counting: the expected finish.

Close up: the four counties that moved most

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Each county’s move from the 2024 presidential vote in the governor's race; the maps above show the result beside it.

In the governor's race, these moved furthest toward Democrats, among counties with 2,000 or more votes in 2024 and at least half a percent of the state’s.

Dodge County
Moved 21.9 points toward Democrats: R+32.6 for president in 2024; Jim Pillen, the Republican, carried it at R+10.7.
13,037 votes counted, 16,443 cast in 2024.
Dakota County
Moved 21.1 points toward Democrats: R+29.8 for president in 2024; Jim Pillen, the Republican, carried it at R+8.7.
5,027 votes counted, 6,120 cast in 2024.
Dawson County
Moved 17.0 points toward Democrats: R+49.6 for president in 2024; Jim Pillen, the Republican, carried it at R+32.6.
6,913 votes counted, 8,491 cast in 2024.
Saline County
Moved 16.7 points toward Democrats: R+33.2 for president in 2024; Jim Pillen, the Republican, carried it at R+16.5.
4,533 votes counted, 5,655 cast in 2024.

No county compared moved the other way.

Who lives where it moved

Barely related across counties. On average, ten more points of adults with a degree went with a county about 0.3 points more Republican (r = −0.11).

By place

Urban1 county, 219,700 votes10.9 pts → D

Suburban3 counties, 225,407 votes13.9 pts → D

Rural89 counties, 310,756 votes12.4 pts → D

By race and ethnicity

Hispanic residents 30% or more4 counties, 32,933 votes16.2 pts → D

White non-Hispanic 85% or more70 counties, 192,047 votes11.1 pts → D

Every other county19 counties, 530,883 votes12.8 pts → D

Each group’s counties added together: its 2026 margin against its 2024 presidential margin. Census Bureau American Community Survey, 2019–2023. Counties, not voters: there are no exit polls here.

Every race in Nebraska

Ballot measures

Proposed Amendment No. 118.6% yesfailing

Initiative Measure 44045.1% yesfailing

Initiative Measure 44145.5% yesfailing

Initiative Measure 44267.8% yespassing

Margins are the winner’s or leader’s lead in points of all votes cast. * Still counting: where we expect the count to finish. The move is the 2026 margin against the 2024 presidential margin on the same ground, for races between a Democrat and a Republican.

Ticket splitting

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Across the 86 counties that lie wholly in one district, the governor's race went R+40.9 and the House races R+49.8: the governor's margin ran 8.9 points more Democratic than the House margin. Every county was carried by the same party in both.

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Points of difference between the Governor margin and the House margin in each county.

Each circle is a county, its area the votes cast. Above the line the Governor Democrat did better than the House Democrat; below it, worse.

31019Republican in both

Governor: R+32.1Walz against Pillen
House: R+43.2the district's race
Difference: D+11.1Walz ran ahead
Votes: about 19,206

Most votes firstGov.HouseDiff.

Margins are the Democrat minus the Republican in points of all votes cast in that race, from the counts the state’s election office has published so far; a county still counting is compared on what it has counted in both. The House is compared only in counties that lie wholly inside one congressional district, so the county's House margin is one race's margin; a county divided between districts, or in a district without a Democrat against a Republican, is left out. 7 counties are left out. A difference is not a count of split tickets: a voter who skipped one race moves it too.

Nebraska’s legislature

Legislature25 of 49 seats on the ballotBefore0–049 othersLeaders0–0No party has control.Every district, mapped →

Counts are Nebraska’s official state and county counts, published by the Nebraska Secretary of State. Where a race is still being counted, its margin is where we expect the count to finish, marked *. A move from 2024 is the 2026 margin against Kamala Harris’s margin over Donald Trump in the same place. A race is won when we call it or the state certifies it.

Who won each county, and how far it moved

Nebraska’s three House seats

Close up: the four counties that moved most

Dodge County

Dakota County

Dawson County

Saline County