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
GroupDundy CountyNebraskaUnited States
German32.4%31.0%12.5%
Irish15.7%11.7%9.4%
English11.8%9.4%9.5%
American9.0%3.5%5.3%
Dutch6.6%——
French2.4%—1.6%
Swedish2.3%3.1%—
Polish2.2%2.7%2.2%
Mexican3.3%8.7%11.3%
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
Dundy County
Nebraska
United States
Median age
46.4
37.3
39.1
Age 18–24
9.2%
9.8%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
24.5%
16.8%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Dundy County
Nebraska
United States
Median household income
$58,922
$76,475
$84,427
Poverty rate
14.0%
10.6%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
20.2%
34.7%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Dundy County
Nebraska
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
4.3%
12.8%
22.3%
Spanish
3.1%
8.5%
13.6%
Other languages
1.0%
0.6%
0.8%
Religious landscape
Measure
Dundy County
Nebraska
United States
Catholic
6.3%
19.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
2.8%
14.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
41.3%
50.8%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
49.6%
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.
Dundy County, Nebraska
Precinct data
Results by precinct
4 precincts · 929 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Dundy County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -BENKELMAN I-OUGHBENKELMAN I-OUGH
36
286
2
324
11.1%
88.3%
R+77.2
Precinct -BENKELMAN IIBENKELMAN II
21
287
2
310
6.8%
92.6%
R+85.8
Precinct -BENKELMAN IIIBENKELMAN III
16
160
0
176
9.1%
90.9%
R+81.8
Precinct -HAIGLERHAIGLER
23
96
0
119
19.3%
80.7%
R+61.3
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−37.3%
1896
+2.8%
1900
−4.1%
1904
−50.3%
1908
−10.3%
1912
+17.7%
1916
+22.8%
1920
−45.7%
1924
−31.6%
1928
−53.5%
1932
+15.7%
1936
+11.4%
1940
−28.4%
1944
−36.6%
1948
−18.3%
1952
−61.6%
1956
−41.5%
1960
−43.8%
1964
−12.3%
1968
−53.2%
1972
−63.9%
1976
−25.1%
1980
−67.0%
1984
−62.6%
1988
−42.0%
1992
−33.4%
1996
−48.0%
2000
−61.5%
2004
−63.8%
2008
−55.4%
2012
−62.5%
2016
−77.0%
2020
−77.6%
2024
−78.7%
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
10.3%Harris96
89.0%Trump829
0.3%West3 +2
R+78.7
R+1.2
R+77.3
931
All 5 candidates in 2024 · 3 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican89.0%829
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic10.3%96
Cornel WestNonpartisan0.3%3
OtherAll other candidates0.2%2
Chase OliverNonpartisan0.1%1
R
10.5%Biden105
88.0%Trump883
1.1%Jorgensen11
R+77.6
R+0.5
R+82.0
1,003
R
9.3%Clinton89
86.4%Trump823
3.3%Johnson31
R+77.0
R+14.5
R+79.1
953
R
17.9%Obama176
80.4%Romney792
1.1%Gray11
R+62.5
R+7.1
R+66.4
985
R
21.4%Obama218
76.8%McCain783
1.8%
R+55.4
D+8.4
R+62.7
1,019
R
17.7%Kerry186
81.5%Bush858
0.9%
R+63.8
R+2.3
R+61.4
1,053
R
17.7%Gore179
79.2%Bush801
1.9%Nader19
R+61.5
R+13.6
R+62.0
1,011
R
20.3%Clinton224
68.3%Dole752
10.2%Perot112
R+48.0
R+14.5
R+56.5
1,101
R
19.6%Clinton245
53.0%Bush664
26.5%Perot332
R+33.4
D+8.6
R+39.0
1,253
R
28.3%Dukakis333
70.3%Bush828
1.4%
R+42.0
D+20.6
R+34.3
1,178
R
18.4%Mondale225
81.0%Reagan992
0.7%
R+62.6
D+4.4
R+44.4
1,225
R
13.6%Carter192
80.7%Reagan1,138
5.7%
R+67.0
R+41.9
R+57.3
1,411
R
36.2%Carter457
61.3%Ford774
2.5%
R+25.1
D+38.8
R+27.2
1,263
R
18.1%McGovern221
81.9%Nixon1,003
0.0%
R+63.9
R+10.7
R+40.7
1,224
R
18.8%Humphrey261
72.0%Nixon1,001
9.2%
R+53.2
R+41.0
R+52.5
1,390
R
43.9%Johnson712
56.1%Goldwater911
0.0%
R+12.3
D+31.6
R+34.8
1,623
R
28.1%Kennedy486
71.9%Nixon1,245
0.0%
R+43.8
R+2.4
R+44.0
1,731
R
29.3%Stevenson495
70.7%Eisenhower1,196
0.0%
R+41.5
D+20.1
R+26.1
1,691
R
19.2%Stevenson397
80.8%Eisenhower1,670
0.0%
R+61.6
R+43.3
R+50.8
2,067
R
40.9%Truman646
59.1%Dewey935
0.0%
R+18.3
D+18.3
R+22.8
1,581
R
31.7%Roosevelt613
68.3%Dewey1,320
0.0%
R+36.6
R+8.1
R+44.1
1,933
R
35.8%Roosevelt803
64.2%Willkie1,441
0.0%
R+28.4
R+39.8
R+38.4
2,244
D
55.1%Roosevelt1,328
43.8%Landon1,054
1.1%
D+11.4
R+4.3
R+12.9
2,408
D
57.1%Roosevelt1,344
41.4%Hoover974
1.5%
D+15.7
D+69.2
R+2.1
2,354
R
22.9%Smith472
76.4%Hoover1,575
0.7%
R+53.5
R+22.0
R+36.1
2,061
R
25.1%Davis459
56.7%Coolidge1,036
17.7%La Follette324
R+31.6
D+14.2
R+6.4
1,828
R
23.9%Cox375
69.6%Harding1,094
6.6%
R+45.7
R+68.6
R+19.5
1,572
D
58.3%Wilson570
35.5%Hughes347
6.1%
D+22.8
D+5.1
D+19.7
977
O
34.5%Wilson304
16.8%Taft148
48.6%
Roosevelt +14.1
D+28.1
R+1.8
880
R
42.5%Bryan391
52.8%Taft486
4.7%
R+10.3
D+40.0
R+0.8
920
R
15.3%Parker92
65.6%Roosevelt395
19.1%
R+50.3
R+46.2
R+30.7
602
R
46.9%Bryan283
51.0%McKinley308
2.2%
R+4.1
R+6.9
D+3.4
604
D
49.8%Bryan288
47.1%McKinley272
3.1%
D+2.8
D+40.1
D+8.8
578
O
6.7%Cleveland55
44.0%Harrison362
49.3%
Weaver +5.2
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R+39.0
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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
14.8%271
85.2%1,556
1,827
2020
R
8.0%77
87.0%835
960
2018
R
12.8%99
84.2%649
771
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+71.4
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+78.7
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 7.3 points more Democratic.
Domestic migration in Dundy County, NE in Dundy County, NE: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−26
2012
+38
2013
−7
2014
−68
2015
−85
2016
+32
2017
−7
2018
−9
2019
−60
2021
−12
2022
−27
2023
−37
2024
+15
2025
+2
Dundy sits in Nebraska's southwest corner along the Kansas and Colorado borders, where a sparse, agriculture-dependent population has delivered Republican presidential margins above 75 points in consecutive cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 22.8 points in 1916 and a Republican high of 78.7 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 1.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 78.7 points.
A population of 1,736, a 93% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $58,922 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Frontier County and Franklin 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, Dundy County, Nebraska voted Republican by 78.7 points (R+78.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 931 votes cast, 96 went Democratic and 829 went Republican.
When did Dundy County, Nebraska last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Dundy County, Nebraska voted Democratic was 1936.
How many people live in Dundy County, Nebraska?
Dundy County, Nebraska has a population of 1,736 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Dundy County, Nebraska?
Median household income in Dundy County, Nebraska is $58,922 — below the national median of $80,734. The Nebraska state median is $76,475.
What is the political history of Dundy County, Nebraska?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Dundy County, Nebraska from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 4 went Democratic and 28 went Republican.
