Omaha · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
63.8%
179,979 votes · D+29.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 58.3%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
69.4%
224,049 votes · R+39.2
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 67.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
255,210votes
44.1% of the vote · R+9.3
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 253,724 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
315,689votes
54.4% of the vote · R+10.7
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 309,320 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
+11.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+29.2 · U.S. D+17.8
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +7.9 pts
Republican
Ronald Reagan1980
+24.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+34.6 · U.S. R+9.7
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +24.2 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Omaha · 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 Omaha, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama13Clinton9Edwards220,774 votes · 24 of 24 countiescaucus + primary
Sanders15Clinton923,252 votes · 24 of 24 countiescaucus + primary
Biden16Buttigieg7Sanders199,203 votes · 24 of 24 countiescaucus + primary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○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+11.8
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+10.7
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 1.1 points.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Omaha
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008 (partial)
136,655
37,707
52,201
46,707
40
2010 (partial)
137,769
36,735
53,535
47,412
87
2012 (partial)
137,442
35,107
55,365
46,838
132
2014 (partial)
134,103
32,625
54,090
47,082
306
2026 (partial)
633,393
192,090
266,600
158,908
15,795
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+1,511 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −3,034 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Omaha in Omaha: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+306
2012
−1,423
2013
−324
2014
−103
2015
+65
2016
−403
2017
−380
2018
+529
2019
−445
2021
−1,336
2022
−2,493
2023
+399
2024
+1,063
2025
+1,511
Omaha's DMA spans eastern Nebraska and western Iowa, two states with divergent partisan leans, while Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District—which awards its own Electoral College vote—has split from the statewide result in recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 29.2 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 39.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 1.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.7 points.
A population of 1,194,983, a 74% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $82,605 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek and Indianapolis.
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In 2024, Omaha, Nebraska voted Republican by 10.7 points (R+10.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 580,121 votes cast, 253,724 went Democratic and 315,689 went Republican.
When did Omaha, Nebraska last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Omaha, Nebraska voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Omaha, Nebraska?
Omaha, Nebraska has a population of 1,194,983 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Omaha, Nebraska?
Median household income in Omaha, Nebraska is $82,605 — above the national median of $80,734. The Nebraska state median is $75,059.
What is the political history of Omaha, Nebraska?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Omaha, Nebraska from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 6 went Democratic and 28 went Republican.
