Political party strength in Nebraska
Encyclopedia
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state
U.S. state
A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

 of Nebraska
Nebraska
Nebraska is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River....

:
  • Governor
  • Lieutenant Governor
  • Secretary of State
    Secretary of State of Nebraska
    The Secretary of State of Nebraska is one of the constitutional officers of the U.S. state of Nebraska. In Nebraska, the Secretary of State is elected for a four-year term. Vacancies are fill by appointment by the Governor....

  • Attorney General
    Nebraska Attorney General
    The Nebraska Attorney General is the chief law enforcement officer and lawyer for the U.S. state of Nebraska.-List of Attorneys General:-Notes:Term began February 21, 1867.Joint Populist-Democratic ticket.Resigned....

  • State Auditor
  • State Treasurer


The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:

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: (D), (D/P), (I), (NP), (P), and (R).
Year|Executive offices|State Legislature
Nebraska Legislature
The Nebraska Legislature is the supreme legislative body of the State of Nebraska, in the Great Plains region of the United States. The Legislature meets at the Nebraska State Capitol in the City of Lincoln, Lancaster County....

|United States Congress
United States Congressional Delegations from Nebraska
These are tables of congressional delegations from Nebraska to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.-United States Senate:-Delegates from Nebraska Territory:- Members from Nebraska :-References:...

|Electoral College votes
United States presidential election
Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President...

GovernorLieutenant GovernorSecretary of State
Secretary of State of Nebraska
The Secretary of State of Nebraska is one of the constitutional officers of the U.S. state of Nebraska. In Nebraska, the Secretary of State is elected for a four-year term. Vacancies are fill by appointment by the Governor....

Attorney General
Nebraska Attorney General
The Nebraska Attorney General is the chief law enforcement officer and lawyer for the U.S. state of Nebraska.-List of Attorneys General:-Notes:Term began February 21, 1867.Joint Populist-Democratic ticket.Resigned....

AuditorTreasurerU.S. Senator (Class I)U.S. Senator (Class II)U.S. House
1867 David Butler
David Butler (Nebraska)
David C. Butler was a U.S. political figure. He was the first Governor of Nebraska, serving from 1867 until 1871...

 (R)
1868
1869
1870
1871 William H. James
William H. James
William Hartford James was a Republican Nebraska politician best known as the Acting Governor of Nebraska. He was also a member of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Board of Regents during his tenure as Governor.-Early life in Iowa:...

 (R)
1872
1873 Robert Wilkinson Furnas
Robert Wilkinson Furnas
Robert Wilkinson Furnas was the second Governor of Nebraska . He came to Nebraska in 1856 at age 32. Two months later he published the Nebraska Advertiser, a publication advertising the agricultural opportunities found in Nebraska. He also published the Nebraska Farmer, the first agricultural...

 (R)
1874
1875 Silas Garber
Silas Garber
Silas Garber was the founder of Red Cloud, Nebraska and was also Nebraska's third Governor.-Early life:...

 (R)
1876
1877
1878
1879 Albinus Nance
Albinus Nance
Albinus Roberts Nance served as a soldier during the American Civil War, and is well known for being the fourth Governor of Nebraska.-Early life and Civil War:...

 (R)
1880
1881
1882
1883 James W. Dawes
James W. Dawes
James William Dawes was a Republican Nebraska politician best known as the fifth Governor of Nebraska. He was born in McConnelsville, Ohio. He was also a delegate to the state constitutional convention and a member of state senate in 1877. Dawes County, Nebraska is named in his honor. He also...

 (R)
1884
1885
1886
1887 John Milton Thayer
John Milton Thayer
John Milton Thayer was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a postbellum United States Senator from Nebraska, as well as governor of Wyoming Territory and governor of Nebraska.-Early life and career:...

 (R)
1888
1889
1890
1891
1892 James E. Boyd (D)
1893 Lorenzo Crounse
Lorenzo Crounse
Lorenzo Crounse was a Nebraska Republican politician best known as the eighth Governor of Nebraska.-Early life :...

 (R)
1894
1895 Silas A. Holcomb
Silas A. Holcomb
Silas Alexander Holcomb was a Nebraska lawyer and politician best known for being elected as the ninth Governor of Nebraska and serving from 1895 to 1899...

 (D/P)
1896
1897
1898
1899 William A. Poynter
William A. Poynter
William Amos Poynter was a Nebraska politician best known as the tenth Governor of Nebraska from 1899 to 1901, running under a fusion ticket between the Populist and the Democratic Party...

 (D/P)
1900
1901 Charles H. Dietrich (R)
Ezra P. Savage
Ezra P. Savage
Ezra Perin Savage was a Nebraska republican politician best known for being the 12th Governor of Nebraska from 1901 to 1903. He was the tenth Lieutenant Governor in 1901.-Early life:...

 (R)
1902
1903 John H. Mickey
John H. Mickey
John Hopwood Mickey was a Nebraska republican politician who served as the 13th Governor of Nebraska from 1903 to 1907.-Early life and ancestors:...

 (R)
1904
1905
1906
1907 George L. Sheldon
George L. Sheldon
George Lawson Sheldon was the 14th Governor of Nebraska from 1907 until 1909. He was a Republican from the progressive wing of that party, identified nationally with Theodore Roosevelt.-Early years:...

 (R)
1908
1909 Ashton C. Shallenberger
Ashton C. Shallenberger
Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger was a Nebraska Democratic politician best known for being the 15th Governor of Nebraska from 1909 to 1911. He was first elected to the 57th United States Congress but failed to be reelected in 1902. He was elected governor from 1909–1911 and then was unsuccessful in...

 (D)
1910
1911 Chester Hardy Aldrich (R)
1912
1913 John H. Morehead
John H. Morehead
John Henry Morehead was a Nebraska Democratic politician best known for being the 17th Governor of Nebraska.-Biography:...

 (D)
1914
1915
1916
1917 Keith Neville
Keith Neville
M. Keith Neville was a Nebraska Democratic politician best known for being the 18th Governor of Nebraska.-Biography:...

 (D)
1918
1919 Samuel R. McKelvie
Samuel R. McKelvie
Samuel Roy McKelvie was a Nebraska Republican politician best known for being the 19th Governor of Nebraska. He was also the Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska from 1913 to 1915 and a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1936 and 1944. In On April 15, 1922 he helped break ground for...

 (R)
1920
1921
1922
1923 Charles W. Bryan
Charles W. Bryan
Charles Wayland Bryan was the younger brother of perennial U.S. Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, with whom he shares the distinction of being the only set of brothers to be nominated for national office by a major party.-Biography:Born in 1867 in Salem, Illinois, Bryan...

 (D)
1924
1925 Adam McMullen
Adam McMullen
Adam McMullen was a Nebraska republican politician best known for being the 21st Governor of Nebraska. He was also a delegate to 1944 Republican National Convention and the chairman of the National Governors Association in 1927 to 1928.He was also a founding member of the Beta Tau Chapter of...

 (R)
1926
1927 Frank Marsh (R) L.B. Johnson (R)
1928
1929 Arthur J. Weaver
Arthur J. Weaver
Arthur J. Weaver was a Nebraska Republican politician best known for being the 22nd Governor of Nebraska. Early in his life he was a lawyer and fruit grower. He was married to Maude E...

 (R)
1930
1931 Charles W. Bryan
Charles W. Bryan
Charles Wayland Bryan was the younger brother of perennial U.S. Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, with whom he shares the distinction of being the only set of brothers to be nominated for national office by a major party.-Biography:Born in 1867 in Salem, Illinois, Bryan...

 (D)
1932
1933
1934
1935 Robert Leroy Cochran
Robert Leroy Cochran
Robert LeRoy Cochran was a Nebraska Democratic politician best known for being the 24th Governor of Nebraska.-Biography:...

 (D)
1936
1937 Walter H. Jurgensen (D) Harry R. Swanson (D) Richard C. Hunter
Richard C. Hunter
Richard Charles Hunter was a Nebraska Democratic politician. Hunter was born in West Point, Nebraska. He moved to Omaha, Nebraska with his family in 1885. He graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1909, Harvard Law School in 1910, and the law department of Columbia University in...

 (D)
William H. Price (D)
1938
1939
1940
1941 Dwight Griswold
Dwight Griswold
Dwight Palmer Griswold was an American politician who served as the 25th Governor of Nebraska from 1940 to 1946 and U.S. Senator from 1952 to 1954. He was a Republican.-Biography:...

 (R)
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947 Val Peterson
Val Peterson
Frederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson , also known as Val Peterson, was an American politician who served as the 26th Governor of Nebraska from 1947 to 1953; as director of the Federal Civil Defense Administration from 1953–1957; as U.S. ambassador to Denmark 1957–1961; and as U.S...

 (R)
Robert B. Crosby
Robert B. Crosby
Robert Berkey Crosby was an American Republican politician who served as the 27th Governor of Nebraska from 1953 to 1955.-Biography:...

 (R)
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953 Robert B. Crosby
Robert B. Crosby
Robert Berkey Crosby was an American Republican politician who served as the 27th Governor of Nebraska from 1953 to 1955.-Biography:...

 (R)
1954
1955 Victor E. Anderson (R)
1956
1957 Dwight W. Burney
Dwight W. Burney
Dwight Willard Burney was a Nebraska Republican politician best known for being the 30th Governor of Nebraska....

 (R)
1958
1959 Ralph G. Brooks
Ralph G. Brooks
Ralph Gilmour Brooks was a Nebraska Democratic politician best known for being the 29th Governor of Nebraska. He was governor from 1959 until September 9, 1960 when he died in office. He also ran and lost as a candidate for Nebraska's first district in 1942.-References:#...

 (D)
1960 Dwight W. Burney (R)
1961 Frank B. Morrison
Frank B. Morrison
Frank Brenner Morrison served as the 31st Governor of the U.S. state of Nebraska from 1961 to 1967, representing the Democratic Party. He also ran for United States Senate in 1958, 1966 and 1970 but lost all three elections. He lost to Roman L. Hruska in 1958 and 1970 while in 1966 he lost to Carl...

 (D)
Dwight W. Burney (R)
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967 Norbert T. Tiemann
Norbert T. Tiemann
Norbert Theodore Tiemann was a Republican politician from Wausa, Nebraska best known for being the 32nd Governor of Nebraska from 1967 to 1971. He was born in Minden, Nebraska. He attended Campbell High School in Campbell, Nebraska where he graduated in 1942. He served in the U.S. Army during...

 (R)
Frank Marsh (R) Wayne R. Swanson (R)
1968
1969
1970
1971 J. James Exon
J. James Exon
John James "Jim" Exon was an American Democratic politician. He served as the 33rd Governor of Nebraska from 1971 to 1979, and as a U.S. Senator from Nebraska from 1979 to 1997. Exon was a Nebraska Democrat who never lost an election, and the only Democrat to hold his Nebraska's Senate Class 2 seat...

 (D)
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979 Charles Thone
Charles Thone
Charles Thone is an American Republican politician.-Biography:Charles Thone was born in Hartington, Nebraska. He has three brothers, including John Jr. He graduated from Holy Trinity High School . During World War II, he served in the Infantry of the United States Army...

 (R)
1980
1981
1982
1983 J. Robert Kerrey (D) Donald F. McGinley (D)
1984
1985
1986
1987 Kay A. Orr
Kay A. Orr
Kay Orr , is a United States Republican Party politician from the state of Nebraska. She served as the 36th Governor of Nebraska from 1987 to 1991.-Background and political roots:...

 (R)
1988
1989
1990
1991 Ben Nelson
Ben Nelson
Earl Benjamin "Ben" Nelson is the senior U.S. Senator from Nebraska. He is a member of the Democratic Party and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000....

 (D)
Maxine B. Moul (D) Don Stenberg
Don Stenberg
Don Stenberg is a Republican politician and attorney from Nebraska. He served as Attorney General of Nebraska from 1991 to 2003 and currently serves as State Treasurer of Nebraska to which he took office in 2011. He also served as legal counsel to Governor Charles Thone from 1979 to 1983.-Stenberg v...

 (R)
1992
1993 Kim M. Robak
Kim M. Robak
Kim M. Robak is an American lawyer, lobbyist and retired politician from Nebraska. She is a member of the Democratic Party.Robak was appointed the 35th Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska by Governor Ben Nelson, following resignation of incumbent Maxine B. Moul. She was elected in 1994 and served from...

 (D)
1994
1995 Dave Heineman
Dave Heineman
David Eugene "Dave" Heineman is the 39th and current Governor of Nebraska. He is a member of the Republican Party.-Early life, education and career:...

 (R)
3R
1996
1997 Chuck Hagel
Chuck Hagel
Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel is a former United States Senator from Nebraska. A member of the Republican Party, he was first elected in 1996 and was reelected in 2002...

 (R)
1998
1999 Mike Johanns
Mike Johanns
Michael Owen "Mike" Johanns is an American Republican politician who has been the junior United States Senator from Nebraska since 2009. Previously he was the 38th Governor of Nebraska from 1999 to 2005 and was U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 2005 to 2007, becoming the fourth Nebraskan to hold...

 (R)
David I. Maurstad
David I. Maurstad
David I. Maurstad was the 36th Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska from 1998 to 2001. He was appointed Mitigation Division director at Federal Emergency Management Agency in 2006....

 (R)
Scott Moore Kate Witek
Kate Witek
Kate Witek is the former Democratic Auditor of Public Accounts of Nebraska. She was first elected in November 1998. She was reelected in 2002, however she was defeated in her attempt for a third term in 2006.-Political career and party switch:...

 (R)
2000 John A. Gale
John A. Gale
John Gale is from North Platte, Nebraska, and has been Nebraska's 26th Secretary of State since 2000. He is a member of the Republican Party.-Early life:...

 (R)
George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

 and Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney served as the 46th Vice President of the United States , under George W. Bush....

 (R)
2001 Dave Heineman (R) Lorelee Byrd (R) Ben Nelson (D)
2002
2003 Jon Bruning (R)
2004 Ron Ross (R)
2005 Dave Heineman (R) Rick Sheehy
Rick Sheehy
Rick Sheehy has been the 38th Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska, since 2005.Appointed by Governor Dave Heineman on January 24, 2005, after Heineman became Governor upon Mike Johanns' appointment as United States Secretary of Agriculture in the Cabinet of President George W. Bush.Sheehy is a native...

 (R)
2006 Kate Witek (D)
2007 Mike Foley (R) Shane Osborn
Shane Osborn
Shane Osborn was the State Treasurer in Nebraska until he was succeeded by Don Stenberg on January 6, 2011....

 (R)
2008 49NP (31R, 15D, 3I) 4 John McCain
John McCain
John Sidney McCain III is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election....

 and Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician, commentator and author. As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major party and first Republican woman nominated for the vice-presidency.She was...

 (R), 1 Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

 and Joe Biden
Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama...

 (D)
2009 49NP (32R, 17D) Mike Johanns (R)
2010
2011 Don Stenberg (R) 49NP
YearGovernorLieutenant GovernorSecretary of State
Secretary of State of Nebraska
The Secretary of State of Nebraska is one of the constitutional officers of the U.S. state of Nebraska. In Nebraska, the Secretary of State is elected for a four-year term. Vacancies are fill by appointment by the Governor....

Attorney General
Nebraska Attorney General
The Nebraska Attorney General is the chief law enforcement officer and lawyer for the U.S. state of Nebraska.-List of Attorneys General:-Notes:Term began February 21, 1867.Joint Populist-Democratic ticket.Resigned....

AuditorTreasurer|State Legislature
Nebraska Legislature
The Nebraska Legislature is the supreme legislative body of the State of Nebraska, in the Great Plains region of the United States. The Legislature meets at the Nebraska State Capitol in the City of Lincoln, Lancaster County....

U.S. Senator (Class I)U.S. Senator (Class II)U.S. House|Electoral College votes
United States presidential election
Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President...

Executive offices|United States Congress
United States Congressional Delegations from Nebraska
These are tables of congressional delegations from Nebraska to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.-United States Senate:-Delegates from Nebraska Territory:- Members from Nebraska :-References:...


See also

  • Politics in Nebraska
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