Political party strength in Nebraska facts for kids
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Nebraska:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Secretary of State
- Attorney General
- State Auditor
- State Treasurer
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Legislature
- State delegation to the U.S. Senate
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The parties are as follows: Democratic (D), Democratic/Populist fusion (D/P), Independent (I), Nonpartisan (NP), Populist (P), Republican (R), and a tie or coalition within a group of elected officials.
| Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | |||||||
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| Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Auditor | Treasurer | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House | |||
| 1867 | David Butler (R) | no such office | Thomas P. Kennard (R) | Champion S. Chase (R) | John Gillespie (R) | Augustus Kountze (R) | R Majorities | Thomas Tipton (R) | John Milton Thayer (R) | Turner M. Marquette (R) | no electoral votes |
| John Taffe (R) | |||||||||||
| 1868 | Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax (R)  |
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| 1869 | Seth Robinson (R) | James Sweet (R) | |||||||||
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| 1871 | William H. James (R) | George H. Roberts (R) | Henry A. Koenig (R) | Phineas Hitchcock (R) | |||||||
| William H. James (R) | |||||||||||
| 1872 | Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson (R) |
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| 1873 | Robert W. Furnas (R) | John J. Gosper (R) | Joseph R. Webster (R) | Jefferson B. Weston (R) | Lorenzo Crounse (R) | ||||||
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| 1875 | Silas Garber (R) | Bruno Tzschuck (R) | George H. Roberts (R) | J. C. McBride (R) | Algernon Paddock (R) | ||||||
| 1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler (R) |
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| 1877 | Othman A. Abbott (R) | Alvin Saunders (R) | Frank Welch (R) | ||||||||
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| Thomas J. Majors (R) | |||||||||||
| 1879 | Albinus Nance (R) | Edmund C. Carns (R) | S. J. Alexander (R) | C. J. Dilworth (R) | F. W. Liedtke (R) | George M. Bartlett (R) | Edward K. Valentine (R) | ||||
| 1880 | James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur (R)  |
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| 1881 | John Wallichs (R) | Charles Van Wyck (R) | |||||||||
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| 1883 | James W. Dawes (R) | Alfred W. Agee (R) | Edward P. Roggen (R) | Isaac Powers, Jr. (R) | Phelps D. Sturdevant (D/Anti-M) | R Majority in House, D/Anti-Monopoly Majority in Senate | Charles F. Manderson (R) | 3R | |||
| 1884 | James G. Blaine and John A. Logan (R) |
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| 1885 | Hibbard H. Shedd (R) | William Leese (R) | H. A. Babcock (R) | Charles H. Willard (R) | R Majorities | ||||||
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| 1887 | John Milton Thayer (R) | Gilbert L. Laws (R) | Algernon Paddock (R) | 2R, 1D | |||||||
| 1888 | Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton (R) |
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| 1889 | George D. Meiklejohn (R) | Thomas H. Benton (R) | John E. Hill (R) | 3R | |||||||
| 1890 | Benjamin R. Cowdery (R) | ||||||||||
| 1891 | Thomas Jefferson Majors (R) | John Clayton Allen (R) | George H. Hastings (R) | P Majorities | 2P, 1D | ||||||
| 1892 | James E. Boyd (D) | Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid (R) |
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| 1893 | Lorenzo Crounse (R) | Eugene Moore (R) | Joseph S. Bartley (R) | D/P Majorities | William V. Allen (P) | 3R, 2P, 1D | |||||
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| 1895 | Silas A. Holcomb (D/P) | Robert E. Moore (D/P) | Joel A. Piper (R) | Arthur S. Churchill (R) | R Majorities | John Mellen Thurston (R) | 5R, 1P | ||||
| 1896 | William Jennings Bryan and Arthur Sewall (D) |
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| 1897 | James E. Harris (D/P) | William F. Porter (D/P) | Constantine J. Smyth (D/P) | John F. Cornell (D/P) | John B. Meserve (D/P) | D/P Majorities | 4P, 2R | ||||
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| 1899 | William A. Poynter (D/P) | Edward A. Gilbert (R) | R Majorities | Monroe Hayward (R) | 3P, 2R, 1D | ||||||
| 1900 | William V. Allen (P) | William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (R) |
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| 1901 | Charles H. Dietrich (R) | Ezra P. Savage (R) | George W. Marsh (R) | Frank N. Prout (R) | Charles Weston (R) | William Stuefer (R) | Joseph Millard (R) | 2D, 2P, 2R | |||
| Ezra P. Savage (R) | vacant | Charles H. Dietrich (R) | |||||||||
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| 1903 | John H. Mickey (R) | Edmund G. McGilton (R) | Peter Mortensen (R) | 5R, 1D | |||||||
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) |
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| 1905 | A. Galusha (R) | Norris Brown (R) | Edward N. Searle, Jr. (R) | Elmer Burkett (R) | 6R | ||||||
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| 1907 | George L. Sheldon (R) | Melville R. Hopewell (R) | George C. Junkin (R) | William T. Thompson (R) | L. G. Brian (R) | Norris Brown (R) | 5R, 1D | ||||
| 1908 | William Jennings Bryan and John W. Kern (D) |
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| 1909 | Ashton C. Shallenberger (D) | Silas R. Barton (R) | D Majorities | 3D, 3R | |||||||
| 1910 | Arthur F. Mullen (D) | ||||||||||
| 1911 | Chester H. Aldrich (R) | Addison Wait (R) | Grant G. Martin (R) | Walter A. George (R) | Gilbert Hitchcock (D) | ||||||
| 1912 | vacant | Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D) |
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| 1913 | John H. Morehead (D) | Samuel R. McKelvie (R) | W. B. Howard (R) | D Majority in House, R Majority in Senate | George W. Norris (R) | ||||||
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| 1915 | James Pearson (D) | Charles W. Pool (D) | Willis E. Reed (D) | William H. Smith (D) | George E. Hall (D) | D Majorities | |||||
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| 1917 | Keith Neville (D) | Edgar Howard (D) | |||||||||
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| 1919 | Samuel R. McKelvie (R) | Pelham A. Barrows (R) | Darius M. Amsberry (R) | Clarence A. Davis (R) | George W. Marsh (R) | Daniel B. Cropsey (R) | R Majorities | 6R | |||
| 1920 | Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge (R) |
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| 1923 | Charles W. Bryan (D) | Fred G. Johnson (R) | Charles W. Pool (D) | Ora S. Spillman (R) | Charles D. Robinson (R) | Robert B. Howell (R) | 3D, 3R | ||||
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes (R) |
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| 1925 | Adam McMullen (R) | George A. Williams (R) | |||||||||
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| 1927 | Frank Marsh, Sr. (R) | L. B. Johnson (R) | W. M. Stebbins (R) | 4D, 2R | |||||||
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) |
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| 1929 | Arthur J. Weaver (R) | Christian A. Sorensen (R) | 4R, 2D | ||||||||
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| 1931 | Charles W. Bryan (D) | Theodore Metcalfe (R) | George W. Marsh (R) | Truman W. Bass (R) | 4D, 2R | ||||||
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D) |
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| 1933 | Walter H. Jurgensen (D) | Harry R. Swanson (D) | Paul F. Good (D) | William B. Price (D) | George E. Hall (D) | D Majorities | 5D | ||||
| William H. Thompson (D) | |||||||||||
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| Richard C. Hunter (D) | |||||||||||
| 1935 | Robert Leroy Cochran (D) | William H. Wright (D) | Edward R. Burke (D) | 4D, 1R | |||||||
| Fred C. Ayres (D) | |||||||||||
| 1936 | George W. Norris (I) | ||||||||||
| H. J. Murray (D) | |||||||||||
| 1937 | Richard C. Hunter (D) | William H. Price (D) | Walter H. Jensen (D) | 43NP | |||||||
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| Nate M. Parsons (D) | |||||||||||
| 1939 | William E. Johnson (R) | Walter R. Johnson (R) | Ray C. Johnson (R) | Truman W. Bass (R) | 3R, 2D | ||||||
| John Havekost (D) | |||||||||||
| 1940 | Wendell Willkie and Charles L. McNary (R) |
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| 1941 | Dwight Griswold (R) | Frank Marsh, Sr. (R) | L. B. Johnson (R) | Hugh A. Butler (R) | |||||||
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| 1943 | Roy W. Johnson (R) | Carl G. Swanson (R) | Kenneth S. Wherry (R) | 4R | |||||||
| 1944 | Thomas E. Dewey and John W. Bricker (R) |
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| 1946 | Edward Gillette (R) | ||||||||||
| 1947 | Val Peterson (R) | Robert B. Crosby (R) | |||||||||
| 1948 | Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren (R) |
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| 1949 | Charles J. Warner (R) | James H. Anderson (R) | 3R, 1D | ||||||||
| 1950 | Clarence S. Beck (R) | ||||||||||
| 1951 | James S. Pittenger (R) | Frank B. Heintze (R) | 4R | ||||||||
| 1952 | Fred A. Seaton (R) | Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R) |
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| Dwight Griswold (R) | |||||||||||
| 1953 | Robert B. Crosby (R) | Frank Marsh (R) | |||||||||
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| Samuel W. Reynolds (R) | Eva Bowring (R) | ||||||||||
| Roman Hruska (R) | Hazel Abel (R) | ||||||||||
| 1955 | Victor E. Anderson (R) | Ralph W. Hill (R) | Carl Curtis (R) | ||||||||
| 1956 | vacant | ||||||||||
| 1957 | Dwight W. Burney (R) | ||||||||||
| 1958 | Bertha I. Hill (R) | ||||||||||
| 1959 | Ralph G. Brooks (D) | Richard R. Larsen (D) | 2D, 2R | ||||||||
| 1960 | Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R) |
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| Dwight W. Burney (R) | |||||||||||
| 1961 | Frank B. Morrison (D) | Clarence A. H. Meyer (R) | Clarence L. E. Swanson (R) | 4R | |||||||
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| 1963 | 3R | ||||||||||
| 1964 | P. Merle Humphries (R) | Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D) |
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| 1965 | Philip C. Sorensen (D) | Fred Sorensen (D) | 49NP | 2R, 1D | |||||||
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| 1967 | Norbert Tiemann (R) | John E. Everroad (R) | Wayne R. Swanson (R) | 3R | |||||||
| 1968 | Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) |
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| 1971 | J. James Exon (D) | Frank Marsh (R) | Allen J. Beermann (R) | Ray A. C. Johnson (R) | |||||||
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| 1975 | Gerald T. Whelan (D) | Paul L. Douglas (R) | Frank Marsh (R) | ||||||||
| 1976 | Gerald Ford and Bob Dole (R) |
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| 1977 | Edward Zorinsky (D) | 2R, 1D | |||||||||
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| 1979 | Charles Thone (R) | Roland A. Luedtke (R) | J. James Exon (D) | ||||||||
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush (R) |
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| 1981 | Kay A. Orr (R) | 3R | |||||||||
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| 1983 | Bob Kerrey (D) | Donald F. McGinley (D) | |||||||||
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| 1985 | Robert M. Spire (R) | ||||||||||
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| 1987 | Kay A. Orr (R) | William E. Nichol (R) | Frank Marsh (R) | ||||||||
| David Karnes (R) | |||||||||||
| 1988 | George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) |
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| 1989 | Bob Kerrey (D) | 2R, 1D | |||||||||
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| 1991 | Ben Nelson (D) | Maxine Moul (D) | Don Stenberg (R) | John Breslow (D) | Dawn Rockey (D) | ||||||
| 1992 | George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) |
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| Kim M. Robak (D) | |||||||||||
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| 1995 | Scott Moore (R) | John Breslow (R) | Dave Heineman (R) | 3R | |||||||
| 1996 | Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (R) |
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| 1997 | Chuck Hagel (R) | ||||||||||
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| 1999 | Mike Johanns (R) | David I. Maurstad (R) | Kate Witek (R) | ||||||||
| 2000 | George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R) |
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| 2001 | John A. Gale (R) | Ben Nelson (D) | |||||||||
| Dave Heineman (R) | Lorelee Hunt Byrd (R) | ||||||||||
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| 2003 | Jon Bruning (R) | ||||||||||
| 2004 | Ron Ross (R) | ||||||||||
| 2005 | Dave Heineman (R) | Rick Sheehy (R) | |||||||||
| 2006 | Kate Witek (D) | ||||||||||
| 2007 | Mike Foley (R) | Shane Osborn (R) | 49NP (31R, 15D, 3I) | ||||||||
| 2008 | 4 John McCain and Sarah Palin (R) , 1 Barack Obama and Joe Biden (D) |
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| 2009 | 49NP (32R, 17D) | Mike Johanns (R) | |||||||||
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| 2011 | Don Stenberg (R) | 49NP (34R, 15D) | |||||||||
| 2012 | Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan (R) |
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| 2013 | Lavon Heidemann (R) | 49NP (30R, 18D, 1I) | Deb Fischer (R) | ||||||||
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| John E. Nelson (R) | |||||||||||
| 2015 | Pete Ricketts (R) | Mike Foley (R) | Doug Peterson (R) | Charlie Janssen (R) | 49NP (35R, 13D, 1I) | Ben Sasse (R) | 2R, 1D | ||||
| 2016 | Donald Trump and Mike Pence (R) |
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| 2017 | 49NP (32R, 15D, 1L, 1I) | 3R | |||||||||
| Year | Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Auditor | Treasurer | State Legislature | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
| Executive offices | United States Congress | ||||||||||
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