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
GroupGarden CountyNebraskaUnited States
German34.2%31.0%12.5%
Irish15.4%11.7%9.4%
English14.1%9.4%9.5%
American7.8%3.5%5.3%
Swedish5.2%3.1%—
Norwegian4.4%——
Italian2.3%2.1%4.8%
Scotch-Irish1.9%——
Mexican1.8%8.7%11.3%
Guatemalan1.0%1.0%0.5%
Spaniard0.7%——
Puerto Rican0.6%0.3%1.8%
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
Garden County
Nebraska
United States
Median age
49.9
37.3
39.1
Age 18–24
6.2%
9.8%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
29.6%
16.8%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Garden County
Nebraska
United States
Median household income
$41,882
$76,475
$84,427
Poverty rate
16.5%
10.6%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
21.1%
34.7%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Garden County
Nebraska
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
2.5%
12.8%
22.3%
Spanish
2.1%
8.5%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Garden County
Nebraska
United States
Catholic
13.5%
19.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
13.6%
14.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
53.0%
50.8%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
19.9%
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.
Garden County, Nebraska
Precinct data
Results by precinct
4 precincts · 1,117 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Garden County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -LOST CREEKLOST CREEK
58
339
3
400
14.5%
84.8%
R+70.3
Precinct -BLUE CREEKBLUE CREEK
49
265
1
315
15.6%
84.1%
R+68.6
Precinct -OSHKOSHOSHKOSH
40
271
2
313
12.8%
86.6%
R+73.8
Precinct -LISCOLISCO
15
74
0
89
16.9%
83.1%
R+66.3
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1912–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1912
+17.1%
1916
+30.5%
1920
−36.1%
1924
−17.1%
1928
−56.4%
1932
+21.7%
1936
−0.5%
1940
−29.5%
1944
−39.5%
1948
−28.0%
1952
−62.1%
1956
−55.4%
1960
−52.7%
1964
−32.9%
1968
−64.1%
1972
−70.1%
1976
−33.5%
1980
−69.3%
1984
−72.4%
1988
−45.5%
1992
−37.2%
1996
−44.1%
2000
−62.3%
2004
−65.0%
2008
−49.3%
2012
−53.8%
2016
−66.6%
2020
−71.3%
2024
−70.3%
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
14.5%Harris162
84.7%Trump949
0.4%Oliver5 +2
R+70.3
D+1.0
R+68.8
1,120
All 5 candidates in 2024 · 3 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican84.7%949
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic14.5%162
Chase OliverNonpartisan0.4%5
OtherAll other candidates0.3%3
Jill SteinNonpartisan0.1%1
R
13.4%Biden161
84.7%Trump1,016
1.5%Jorgensen18
R+71.3
R+4.6
R+75.7
1,200
R
14.2%Clinton153
80.8%Trump869
3.6%Johnson39
R+66.6
R+12.8
R+68.7
1,075
R
22.2%Obama242
76.0%Romney829
0.9%Gray10
R+53.8
R+4.5
R+57.7
1,091
R
24.9%Obama283
74.2%McCain844
1.0%
R+49.3
D+15.7
R+56.6
1,138
R
17.0%Kerry201
82.0%Bush970
1.0%
R+65.0
R+2.7
R+62.5
1,183
R
16.7%Gore203
79.0%Bush963
3.1%Nader38
R+62.3
R+18.2
R+62.9
1,219
R
21.5%Clinton279
65.6%Dole851
12.0%Perot155
R+44.1
R+6.9
R+52.6
1,297
R
16.3%Clinton212
53.5%Bush697
29.5%Perot385
R+37.2
D+8.3
R+42.8
1,303
R
26.9%Dukakis366
72.4%Bush986
0.7%
R+45.5
D+26.9
R+37.8
1,362
R
13.3%Mondale180
85.7%Reagan1,158
1.0%
R+72.4
R+3.1
R+54.2
1,351
R
12.8%Carter202
82.1%Reagan1,297
5.1%
R+69.3
R+35.8
R+59.6
1,580
R
30.9%Carter445
64.4%Ford928
4.8%
R+33.5
D+36.6
R+35.6
1,442
R
14.9%McGovern204
85.1%Nixon1,161
0.0%
R+70.1
R+6.0
R+47.0
1,365
R
14.5%Humphrey206
78.6%Nixon1,120
6.9%
R+64.1
R+31.3
R+63.4
1,425
R
33.6%Johnson559
66.4%Goldwater1,106
0.0%
R+32.9
D+19.9
R+55.4
1,665
R
23.6%Kennedy426
76.4%Nixon1,376
0.0%
R+52.7
D+2.7
R+52.9
1,802
R
22.3%Stevenson335
77.7%Eisenhower1,167
0.0%
R+55.4
D+6.7
R+40.0
1,502
R
19.0%Stevenson341
81.0%Eisenhower1,457
0.0%
R+62.1
R+34.1
R+51.3
1,798
R
36.0%Truman519
64.0%Dewey923
0.0%
R+28.0
D+11.5
R+32.5
1,442
R
30.2%Roosevelt541
69.8%Dewey1,248
0.0%
R+39.5
R+10.1
R+47.0
1,789
R
35.3%Roosevelt736
64.7%Willkie1,351
0.0%
R+29.5
R+29.0
R+39.4
2,087
R
49.1%Roosevelt986
49.6%Landon996
1.2%
R+0.5
R+22.2
R+24.8
2,007
D
59.9%Roosevelt1,204
38.2%Hoover768
1.9%
D+21.7
D+78.1
D+3.9
2,010
R
21.4%Smith404
77.8%Hoover1,470
0.8%
R+56.4
R+39.3
R+39.0
1,889
R
29.6%Davis459
46.7%Coolidge725
23.2%La Follette361
R+17.1
D+18.9
D+8.1
1,553
R
30.2%Cox421
66.2%Harding924
3.6%
R+36.1
R+66.6
R+9.9
1,395
D
62.6%Wilson598
32.0%Hughes306
5.4%
D+30.5
D+13.4
D+27.4
956
O
33.1%Wilson282
15.9%Taft136
51.0%
Roosevelt +17.9
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R+2.4
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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
18.3%404
81.7%1,803
2,207
2020
R
11.2%127
82.4%938
1,139
2018
R
13.9%139
81.7%816
999
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+70.0
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+70.3
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 0.3 points.
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+2 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −182 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $54,190 in average income, against $47,886 for residents who stayed — 13% higher. (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 Garden County, NE in Garden County, NE: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+3
2012
−67
2013
−43
2014
−1
2015
+13
2016
−3
2017
−4
2018
−4
2019
−54
2021
−24
2022
+16
2023
−23
2024
+7
2025
+2
Garden County sits in the Nebraska Sandhills, where ranching defines both the economy and the electorate — its 2024 presidential margin of R+70.5 reflects a degree of partisan uniformity common to the region's most sparsely settled communities.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 30.5 points in 1916 and a Republican high of 72.4 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 1.0 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 70.3 points.
A population of 1,761, a 93% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $41,882 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Kimball County and Dundy 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, Garden County, Nebraska voted Republican by 70.3 points (R+70.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,120 votes cast, 162 went Democratic and 949 went Republican.
When did Garden County, Nebraska last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Garden County, Nebraska voted Democratic was 1932.
How many people live in Garden County, Nebraska?
Garden County, Nebraska has a population of 1,761 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Garden County, Nebraska?
Median household income in Garden County, Nebraska is $41,882 — below the national median of $80,734. The Nebraska state median is $76,475.
What is the political history of Garden County, Nebraska?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Garden County, Nebraska from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 2 went Democratic and 26 went Republican.
