Scottsbluff, NE · 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 Scottsbluff, NE, by party and cycle.
○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+39.8
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+48.4
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 8.6 points more Republican than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Scottsbluff, NE in Scottsbluff, NE: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−208
2012
−76
2013
−160
2014
−550
2015
−262
2016
+86
2017
−381
2018
−338
2019
−382
2021
−105
2022
−184
2023
−135
2024
−65
2025
−44
Scottsbluff anchors Nebraska's sparsely populated western Panhandle, where an economy built on irrigated sugar beets and cattle produces some of the state's most lopsided Republican margins in statewide races.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 17.0 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 65.2 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 4.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 48.4 points.
A population of 36,585, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $63,923 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Hastings, NE and Norfolk, NE.
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In 2024, Scottsbluff, NE, Nebraska voted Republican by 48.4 points (R+48.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 15,485 votes cast, 3,890 went Democratic and 11,381 went Republican.
When did Scottsbluff, NE, Nebraska last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Scottsbluff, NE, Nebraska voted Democratic was 1936.
How many people live in Scottsbluff, NE, Nebraska?
Scottsbluff, NE, Nebraska has a population of 36,585 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Scottsbluff, NE, Nebraska?
Median household income in Scottsbluff, NE, Nebraska is $63,923 — below the national median of $80,734. The Nebraska state median is $76,475.
What is the political history of Scottsbluff, NE, Nebraska?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Scottsbluff, NE, Nebraska from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 3 went Democratic and 30 went Republican.
