Omaha, NE-IA · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
63.7%
105,419 votes · D+29.0
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 61.7%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
68.7%
154,142 votes · R+37.8
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 66.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
226,701votes
47.7% of the vote · R+2.0
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 226,647 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
243,452votes
50.8% of the vote · R+3.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 236,351 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
Woodrow Wilson1916
+13.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+16.5 · U.S. D+3.1
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +11.2 pts
Republican
Bob Dole1996
+22.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+14.1 · U.S. D+8.5
Runner-up · Benjamin Harrison, 1892 · +22.2 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Omaha, NE-IA · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Omaha, NE-IA, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama5Clinton318,163 votes · 8 of 8 countiescaucus
Sanders7Clinton119,372 votes · 8 of 8 countiescaucus
Biden5Buttigieg2Sanders189,165 votes · 8 of 8 countiescaucus + primary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+7.5
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+3.5
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 4.0 points more Democratic than the rolls.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Omaha, NE-IA
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008 (partial)
80,839
24,698
28,881
27,231
29
2010 (partial)
82,471
24,480
29,992
27,934
65
2012 (partial)
82,600
23,480
31,615
27,410
95
2014 (partial)
80,924
21,807
31,005
27,862
250
2016 (partial)
83,108
22,017
32,200
28,298
593
2018 (partial)
84,799
22,027
32,397
29,488
887
2020 (partial)
86,654
23,385
35,896
26,330
1,043
2022 (partial)
85,350
21,681
36,281
26,248
1,140
2024 (partial)
86,656
20,781
37,880
26,726
1,269
2026 (partial)
551,808
176,254
217,668
143,642
14,244
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+2,258 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +8,783 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Omaha, NE-IA in Omaha, NE-IA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+644
2012
+41
2013
+1,353
2014
+454
2015
+1,223
2016
+696
2017
+338
2018
+1,544
2019
+1,068
2021
−1,041
2022
−1,864
2023
+780
2024
+1,289
2025
+2,258
Omaha anchors Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District, which allocates one Electoral College vote by district winner — a quirk that made it a genuine presidential battleground and drew outsized national campaign spending in recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 29.0 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 37.8 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 1.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 3.5 points.
A population of 982,064, a 72% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $85,433 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI and Lincoln, NE.
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In 2024, Omaha, NE-IA, Nebraska voted Republican by 3.5 points (R+3.5), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 479,274 votes cast, 226,647 went Democratic and 243,452 went Republican.
When did Omaha, NE-IA, Nebraska last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Omaha, NE-IA, Nebraska voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Omaha, NE-IA, Nebraska?
Omaha, NE-IA, Nebraska has a population of 982,064 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Omaha, NE-IA, Nebraska?
Median household income in Omaha, NE-IA, Nebraska is $85,433 — above the national median of $80,734. The Nebraska state median is $75,059.
What is the political history of Omaha, NE-IA, Nebraska?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Omaha, NE-IA, Nebraska from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 9 went Democratic and 25 went Republican.
