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
GroupGosper CountyNebraskaUnited States
German42.1%31.0%12.5%
Irish10.6%11.7%9.4%
English10.2%9.4%9.5%
American7.3%3.5%5.3%
Swedish4.3%3.1%—
Scottish1.9%—1.3%
Italian1.6%2.1%4.8%
Polish1.6%2.7%2.2%
Mexican7.1%8.7%11.3%
Spaniard0.2%——
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
Gosper County
Nebraska
United States
Median age
48.4
37.3
39.1
Age 18–24
5.8%
9.8%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
23.9%
16.8%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Gosper County
Nebraska
United States
Median household income
$77,500
$76,475
$84,427
Poverty rate
10.3%
10.6%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
27.4%
34.7%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Gosper County
Nebraska
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
4.0%
12.8%
22.3%
Spanish
1.1%
8.5%
13.6%
German or other West Germanic
2.9%
0.3%
0.5%
Religious landscape
Measure
Gosper County
Nebraska
United States
Catholic
6.0%
19.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
33.4%
14.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
49.9%
50.8%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
10.7%
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.
Gosper County, Nebraska
Precinct data
Results by precinct
3 precincts · 1,118 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Gosper County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -22
113
349
3
465
24.3%
75.1%
R+50.8
Precinct -11
67
365
3
435
15.4%
83.9%
R+68.5
Precinct -33
23
193
2
218
10.6%
88.5%
R+78.0
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−28.1%
1896
+23.1%
1900
+7.0%
1904
−41.6%
1908
+11.6%
1912
+41.1%
1916
+16.9%
1920
−22.5%
1924
−9.8%
1928
−33.8%
1932
+44.7%
1936
+26.4%
1940
−22.9%
1944
−31.8%
1948
−4.1%
1952
−55.3%
1956
−42.9%
1960
−43.2%
1964
−3.3%
1968
−47.8%
1972
−54.8%
1976
−31.9%
1980
−58.5%
1984
−59.4%
1988
−35.1%
1992
−22.7%
1996
−32.2%
2000
−52.2%
2004
−59.7%
2008
−49.2%
2012
−51.5%
2016
−62.2%
2020
−60.5%
2024
−62.7%
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
18.1%Harris203
80.8%Trump907
0.4%Oliver4 +3
R+62.7
R+2.2
R+61.2
1,123
All 6 candidates in 2024 · 4 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican80.8%907
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic18.1%203
OtherAll other candidates0.4%5
Chase OliverNonpartisan0.4%4
Cornel WestNonpartisan0.2%2
Jill SteinNonpartisan0.2%2
R
19.2%Biden215
79.7%Trump893
0.9%Jorgensen10
R+60.5
D+1.7
R+64.9
1,121
R
16.4%Clinton166
78.6%Trump794
3.8%Johnson38
R+62.2
R+10.6
R+64.3
1,010
R
23.5%Obama230
75.1%Romney734
0.9%Gray9
R+51.5
R+2.3
R+55.4
978
R
24.8%Obama260
74.0%McCain776
1.1%
R+49.2
D+10.5
R+56.5
1,048
R
19.8%Kerry222
79.5%Bush890
0.6%
R+59.7
R+7.5
R+57.2
1,119
R
22.5%Gore228
74.7%Bush757
1.9%Nader19
R+52.2
R+19.9
R+52.7
1,014
R
26.5%Clinton275
58.8%Dole609
14.5%Perot150
R+32.2
R+9.5
R+40.8
1,036
R
24.2%Clinton254
46.9%Bush492
28.3%Perot297
R+22.7
D+12.4
R+28.3
1,048
R
32.0%Dukakis331
67.1%Bush694
0.9%
R+35.1
D+24.3
R+27.4
1,034
R
19.9%Mondale201
79.3%Reagan802
0.8%
R+59.4
R+0.9
R+41.2
1,011
R
17.6%Carter181
76.1%Reagan783
6.3%
R+58.5
R+26.6
R+48.8
1,029
R
32.9%Carter332
64.8%Ford654
2.3%
R+31.9
D+22.9
R+34.0
1,009
R
22.6%McGovern242
77.4%Nixon829
0.0%
R+54.8
R+7.0
R+31.7
1,071
R
23.2%Humphrey229
71.0%Nixon701
5.8%
R+47.8
R+44.5
R+47.1
987
R
48.3%Johnson512
51.7%Goldwater547
0.0%
R+3.3
D+39.9
R+25.9
1,059
R
28.4%Kennedy339
71.6%Nixon854
0.0%
R+43.2
R+0.2
R+43.3
1,193
R
28.5%Stevenson325
71.5%Eisenhower814
0.0%
R+42.9
D+12.3
R+27.5
1,139
R
22.4%Stevenson293
77.6%Eisenhower1,017
0.0%
R+55.3
R+51.2
R+44.5
1,310
R
47.9%Truman572
52.1%Dewey621
0.0%
R+4.1
D+27.7
R+8.6
1,193
R
34.1%Roosevelt484
65.9%Dewey935
0.0%
R+31.8
R+8.9
R+39.3
1,419
R
38.6%Roosevelt628
61.4%Willkie1,001
0.0%
R+22.9
R+49.3
R+32.8
1,629
D
62.7%Roosevelt1,118
36.3%Landon647
1.0%
D+26.4
R+18.3
D+2.2
1,783
D
71.8%Roosevelt1,263
27.1%Hoover477
1.0%
D+44.7
D+78.5
D+26.9
1,758
R
32.8%Smith480
66.6%Hoover975
0.7%
R+33.8
R+24.0
R+16.3
1,465
O
26.5%Davis394
36.3%Coolidge540
37.0%La Follette550
La Follette +0.9
D+12.7
D+15.4
1,487
R
35.5%Cox486
58.0%Harding794
6.4%
R+22.5
R+39.4
D+3.7
1,368
D
56.9%Wilson617
40.0%Hughes434
3.1%
D+16.9
R+24.3
D+13.7
1,085
D
54.6%Wilson524
13.4%Taft129
32.0%
D+41.1
D+29.6
D+21.6
960
D
54.3%Bryan634
42.7%Taft499
3.0%
D+11.6
D+53.2
D+21.1
1,168
R
16.3%Parker154
57.9%Roosevelt548
25.9%
R+41.6
R+48.6
R+21.9
947
D
52.2%Bryan570
45.2%McKinley494
2.6%
D+7.0
R+16.2
D+14.5
1,092
D
60.1%Bryan681
37.0%McKinley419
2.9%
D+23.1
D+51.2
D+29.2
1,133
O
8.7%Cleveland85
36.8%Harrison358
54.5%
Weaver +17.7
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R+29.7
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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
19.0%427
81.0%1,825
2,252
2020
R
10.4%111
84.1%900
1,070
2018
R
17.6%147
79.7%667
837
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+67.8
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+62.7
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 5.1 points more Republican.
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
−19 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −94 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $78,614 in average income, against $87,027 for residents who stayed — 10% 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 Gosper County, NE in Gosper County, NE: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−46
2012
+79
2013
−53
2014
−12
2015
+19
2016
0
2017
+6
2018
−33
2019
−8
2021
−48
2022
+14
2023
+21
2024
−14
2025
−19
Gosper County's 2024 presidential margin of R+63 reflects the heavily Republican lean typical of Nebraska's sparsely settled agricultural plains, where fewer than 2,200 residents spread across roughly 460 square miles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 44.7 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 62.7 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 2.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 62.7 points.
A population of 2,040, a 90% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $77,500 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Furnas County and Perkins 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, Gosper County, Nebraska voted Republican by 62.7 points (R+62.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,123 votes cast, 203 went Democratic and 907 went Republican.
When did Gosper County, Nebraska last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Gosper County, Nebraska voted Democratic was 1936.
How many people live in Gosper County, Nebraska?
Gosper County, Nebraska has a population of 2,040 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Gosper County, Nebraska?
Median household income in Gosper County, Nebraska is $77,500 — below the national median of $80,734. The Nebraska state median is $76,475.
What is the political history of Gosper County, Nebraska?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Gosper County, Nebraska from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 7 went Democratic and 25 went Republican.
