Boundary by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupChase CountyNebraskaUnited States
German23.5%31.0%12.5%
Irish10.9%11.7%9.4%
English8.7%9.4%9.5%
American6.8%3.5%5.3%
Dutch2.7%——
Norwegian1.5%——
Polish1.4%2.7%2.2%
Swedish1.4%3.1%—
Mexican16.1%8.7%11.3%
Guatemalan0.9%1.0%0.5%
Honduran0.5%0.2%0.3%
Filipino1.7%0.2%0.9%
Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.
Age and life stage
Measure
Chase County
Nebraska
United States
Median age
45
37.3
39.1
Age 18–24
5.4%
9.8%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
24.8%
16.8%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Chase County
Nebraska
United States
Median household income
$68,173
$76,475
$84,427
Poverty rate
7.5%
10.6%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
24.1%
34.7%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Chase County
Nebraska
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
11.6%
12.8%
22.3%
Spanish
10.8%
8.5%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Chase County
Nebraska
United States
Catholic
16.4%
19.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
27.8%
14.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
41.8%
50.8%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
14.0%
12.1%
5.2%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.
Chase County, Nebraska
Precinct data
Results by precinct
5 precincts · 1,866 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Chase County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -IMPERIAL WESTIMPERIAL WEST
76
485
9
570
13.3%
85.1%
R+71.8
Precinct -WAUNETAWAUNETA
40
335
1
376
10.6%
89.1%
R+78.5
Precinct -IMPERIAL RURALIMPERIAL RURAL
25
314
2
341
7.3%
92.1%
R+84.8
Precinct -IMPERIAL EASTIMPERIAL EAST
49
261
2
312
15.7%
83.7%
R+67.9
Precinct -CHAMPION-LAMARCHAMPION-LAMAR
14
253
0
267
5.2%
94.8%
R+89.5
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−29.9%
1896
+3.1%
1900
−6.4%
1904
−41.4%
1908
−8.0%
1912
+8.3%
1916
+18.4%
1920
−38.1%
1924
−18.3%
1928
−44.9%
1932
+18.7%
1936
+17.9%
1940
−26.5%
1944
−38.0%
1948
−19.6%
1952
−61.5%
1956
−36.6%
1960
−38.6%
1964
−8.8%
1968
−46.8%
1972
−62.2%
1976
−21.7%
1980
−60.3%
1984
−63.4%
1988
−40.8%
1992
−28.9%
1996
−49.2%
2000
−63.9%
2004
−68.4%
2008
−61.6%
2012
−71.2%
2016
−77.8%
2020
−75.7%
2024
−77.3%
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
R
10.9%Harris204
88.2%Trump1,648
0.5%Oliver10 +3
R+77.3
R+1.6
R+75.8
1,868
All 6 candidates in 2024 · 4 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican88.2%1,648
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic10.9%204
Chase OliverNonpartisan0.5%10
Jill SteinNonpartisan0.2%3
OtherAll other candidates0.1%2
Cornel WestNonpartisan0.1%1
R
11.3%Biden226
87.0%Trump1,740
1.4%Jorgensen27
R+75.7
D+2.1
R+80.2
2,000
R
9.0%Clinton171
86.8%Trump1,648
2.8%Johnson54
R+77.8
R+6.6
R+79.9
1,898
R
13.6%Obama254
84.8%Romney1,584
0.9%Gray17
R+71.2
R+9.6
R+75.1
1,867
R
18.5%Obama341
80.1%McCain1,477
1.4%
R+61.6
D+6.8
R+68.9
1,844
R
15.3%Kerry302
83.7%Bush1,652
1.0%
R+68.4
R+4.5
R+66.0
1,973
R
16.3%Gore306
80.3%Bush1,505
2.0%Nader38
R+63.9
R+14.8
R+64.5
1,875
R
19.7%Clinton365
68.9%Dole1,277
10.6%Perot197
R+49.2
R+20.3
R+57.7
1,854
R
19.1%Clinton398
48.0%Bush1,000
32.4%Perot675
R+28.9
D+11.9
R+34.5
2,083
R
28.7%Dukakis597
69.5%Bush1,446
1.9%
R+40.8
D+22.6
R+33.1
2,082
R
17.5%Mondale368
80.9%Reagan1,697
1.5%
R+63.4
R+3.0
R+45.2
2,097
R
15.4%Carter324
75.7%Reagan1,593
8.8%
R+60.3
R+38.6
R+50.6
2,103
R
37.4%Carter725
59.2%Ford1,146
3.4%
R+21.7
D+40.5
R+23.8
1,937
R
18.9%McGovern307
81.1%Nixon1,318
0.0%
R+62.2
R+15.4
R+39.1
1,625
R
21.0%Humphrey363
67.8%Nixon1,171
11.2%
R+46.8
R+38.0
R+46.1
1,727
R
45.6%Johnson907
54.4%Goldwater1,081
0.0%
R+8.8
D+29.8
R+31.3
1,988
R
30.7%Kennedy657
69.3%Nixon1,482
0.0%
R+38.6
R+2.0
R+38.7
2,139
R
31.7%Stevenson670
68.3%Eisenhower1,444
0.0%
R+36.6
D+24.9
R+21.2
2,114
R
19.3%Stevenson463
80.7%Eisenhower1,941
0.0%
R+61.5
R+41.9
R+50.7
2,404
R
40.2%Truman736
59.8%Dewey1,094
0.0%
R+19.6
D+18.5
R+24.0
1,830
R
31.0%Roosevelt648
69.0%Dewey1,444
0.0%
R+38.0
R+11.5
R+45.5
2,092
R
36.7%Roosevelt904
63.3%Willkie1,557
0.0%
R+26.5
R+44.4
R+36.5
2,461
D
57.7%Roosevelt1,493
39.9%Landon1,031
2.4%
D+17.9
R+0.9
R+6.4
2,587
D
57.4%Roosevelt1,408
38.6%Hoover948
4.0%
D+18.7
D+63.6
D+0.9
2,455
R
27.0%Smith579
71.9%Hoover1,540
1.1%
R+44.9
R+26.6
R+27.4
2,142
R
29.9%Davis570
48.2%Coolidge919
21.5%La Follette411
R+18.3
D+19.8
D+6.9
1,908
R
28.1%Cox414
66.2%Harding976
5.8%
R+38.1
R+56.5
R+11.9
1,475
D
55.8%Wilson551
37.4%Hughes369
6.8%
D+18.4
D+10.1
D+15.3
987
O
33.4%Wilson262
25.1%Taft197
41.5%
Roosevelt +8.0
D+16.3
R+11.3
784
R
43.6%Bryan338
51.6%Taft400
4.8%
R+8.0
D+33.4
D+1.6
775
R
21.1%Parker111
62.4%Roosevelt329
16.5%
R+41.4
R+34.9
R+21.7
527
R
45.1%Bryan274
51.6%McKinley313
3.3%
R+6.4
R+9.5
D+1.1
607
D
50.6%Bryan260
47.5%McKinley244
1.9%
D+3.1
D+33.1
D+9.2
514
O
9.3%Cleveland84
39.2%Harrison355
51.5%
Weaver +12.3
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R+31.6
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Congressional elections · 3 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2024
R
14.4%529
85.6%3,154
3,683
2020
R
9.0%173
86.9%1,666
1,918
2018
R
11.8%184
85.8%1,340
1,562
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+70.8
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+77.3
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 6.5 points more Democratic.
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+10 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −230 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $61,500 in average income, against $90,294 for residents who stayed — 32% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
Migration is one input to a place’s political change, not its cause — a shift can also come from residents changing their minds, generational turnover, or turnout. These figures describe the places people moved between; they do not measure how any mover voted.
Domestic migration in Chase County, NE in Chase County, NE: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+24
2012
+33
2013
−54
2014
+18
2015
−15
2016
−64
2017
−7
2018
−2
2019
−14
2021
−48
2022
−61
2023
−28
2024
−22
2025
+10
Chase County, anchored by the small city of Imperial, sits in the southwestern Panhandle and recorded an R+77.4 presidential margin in 2024—among the widest in a state already dominated by rural Republican strongholds.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 18.7 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 77.8 points in 2016. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 1.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 77.3 points.
A population of 3,671, a 78% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $68,173 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Morrill County and Sheridan County.
Akashic
Political twins — counties
The counties whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
In 2024, Chase County, Nebraska voted Republican by 77.3 points (R+77.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,868 votes cast, 204 went Democratic and 1,648 went Republican.
When did Chase County, Nebraska last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Chase County, Nebraska voted Democratic was 1936.
How many people live in Chase County, Nebraska?
Chase County, Nebraska has a population of 3,671 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Chase County, Nebraska?
Median household income in Chase County, Nebraska is $68,173 — below the national median of $80,734. The Nebraska state median is $76,475.
What is the political history of Chase County, Nebraska?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Chase County, Nebraska from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 4 went Democratic and 28 went Republican.
