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Nebraska 2000 vs 2008: county swing

10 of 93 counties moved toward the Republican ticket; 4 changed hands.

Merrick County: swing D+5.4Nance County: swing D+3.4Perkins County: swing D+8.8Phelps County: swing D+5.5Richardson County: swing D+9.0Seward County: swing D+5.6Sherman County: swing D+6.6Thomas County: swing R+2.4Wheeler County: swing D+4.6Antelope County: swing D+5.0Blaine County: swing D+2.8Butler County: swing D+6.4Clay County: swing D+2.1Colfax County: swing D+16.6Dawson County: swing D+11.8Dodge County: swing D+14.6Frontier County: swing D+12.9Gosper County: swing D+3.0Hayes County: swing D+5.5Howard County: swing D+3.0Johnson County: swing D+8.9McPherson County: swing R+1.3Rock County: swing D+2.8Saline County: swing D+9.6Saunders County: swing D+8.1Sheridan County: swing D+6.1Thayer County: swing D+8.9Thurston County: swing D+12.6Webster County: swing R+0.6Banner County: swing D+1.5Boone County: swing D+10.8Box Butte County: swing D+10.3Buffalo County: swing D+11.1Cass County: swing D+4.7Chase County: swing D+2.4Cheyenne County: swing D+6.8Cuming County: swing D+20.8Dawes County: swing D+18.8Dixon County: swing D+6.3Dundy County: swing D+6.1Garfield County: swing R+3.5Grant County: swing R+3.9Hall County: swing D+7.4Hamilton County: swing D+5.9Harlan County: swing R+2.9Hitchcock County: swing D+7.5Kearney County: swing D+10.1Keith County: swing D+6.9Kimball County: swing D+4.9Lancaster County: swing D+15.1Loup County: swing R+2.0Madison County: swing D+14.2Nuckolls County: swing D+5.4Pawnee County: swing D+0.1Platte County: swing D+14.9Morrill County: swing D+3.5Nemaha County: swing D+7.3Polk County: swing D+5.1Sarpy County: swing D+15.8Stanton County: swing D+11.3Wayne County: swing D+12.1York County: swing D+3.5Adams County: swing D+9.0Arthur County: swing D+9.1Brown County: swing D+9.6Cedar County: swing D+3.8Custer County: swing D+4.7Fillmore County: swing D+6.9Garden County: swing D+13.0Greeley County: swing D+10.8Holt County: swing D+9.2Knox County: swing D+7.8Pierce County: swing D+11.6Red Willow County: swing R+0.3Scotts Bluff County: swing D+5.8Sioux County: swing D+4.2Valley County: swing D+6.0Washington County: swing D+10.9Boyd County: swing D+0.6Burt County: swing D+9.9Cherry County: swing D+8.4Dakota County: swing D+2.3Deuel County: swing D+6.0Douglas County: swing D+19.8Franklin County: swing D+5.5Gage County: swing D+11.8Otoe County: swing D+13.8Hooker County: swing R+4.6Jefferson County: swing D+9.9Keya Paha County: swing D+12.0Lincoln County: swing R+8.9Logan County: swing D+7.9Furnas County: swing D+3.9
Red: toward the Republican ticket. Blue: toward the Democratic ticket.
County20002008SwingVotes 2000Votes 2008
Lincoln County R+26.6 R+35.5 R+8.9 15,114 16,277
Hooker County R+59.4 R+64.0 R+4.6 409 438
Grant County R+71.5 R+75.4 R+3.9 385 367
Garfield County R+53.6 R+57.1 R+3.5 963 1,030
Harlan County R+49.6 R+52.5 R+2.9 1,852 1,766
Thomas County R+69.4 R+71.8 R+2.4 395 390
Loup County R+52.9 R+54.9 R+2.0 378 393
McPherson County R+65.2 R+66.5 R+1.3 301 293
Webster County R+36.9 R+37.5 R+0.6 1,945 1,817
Red Willow County R+49.6 R+49.9 R+0.3 5,025 5,044
Pawnee County R+27.3 R+27.2 D+0.1 1,519 1,384
Boyd County R+53.7 R+53.1 D+0.6 1,242 1,110
Banner County R+70.3 R+68.8 D+1.5 462 416
Clay County R+48.2 R+46.1 D+2.1 3,215 3,033
Dakota County R+7.0 R+4.7 D+2.3 6,061 6,396
Chase County R+64.0 R+61.6 D+2.4 1,875 1,844
Blaine County R+73.4 R+70.6 D+2.8 349 316
Rock County R+65.3 R+62.5 D+2.8 894 801
Gosper County R+52.2 R+49.2 D+3.0 1,014 1,048
Howard County R+28.5 R+25.5 D+3.0 2,827 2,996
Nance County R+36.6 R+33.2 D+3.4 1,665 1,707
Morrill County R+53.2 R+49.7 D+3.5 2,138 2,351
York County R+52.8 R+49.3 D+3.5 6,460 6,568
Cedar County R+45.1 R+41.3 D+3.8 4,269 4,174
Furnas County R+54.1 R+50.2 D+3.9 2,431 2,328
Sioux County R+70.6 R+66.4 D+4.2 752 732
Wheeler County R+58.7 R+54.1 D+4.6 453 440
Cass County R+24.2 R+19.5 D+4.7 10,280 12,122
Custer County R+60.4 R+55.7 D+4.7 5,414 5,578
Kimball County R+55.0 R+50.1 D+4.9 1,820 1,811
Antelope County R+56.0 R+51.0 D+5.0 3,368 3,185
Polk County R+50.4 R+45.3 D+5.1 2,613 2,543
Merrick County R+45.9 R+40.5 D+5.4 3,340 3,431
Nuckolls County R+43.2 R+37.8 D+5.4 2,443 2,221
Franklin County R+46.5 R+41.0 D+5.5 1,668 1,552
Hayes County R+73.5 R+68.0 D+5.5 571 553
Phelps County R+57.1 R+51.6 D+5.5 4,627 4,473
Seward County R+31.4 R+25.8 D+5.6 7,016 7,529
Scotts Bluff County R+39.5 R+33.7 D+5.8 13,839 14,730
Hamilton County R+48.7 R+42.8 D+5.9 4,491 4,799
Deuel County R+55.2 R+49.2 D+6.0 1,033 993
Valley County R+45.3 R+39.3 D+6.0 2,263 2,423
Dundy County R+61.5 R+55.4 D+6.1 1,011 1,019
Sheridan County R+66.5 R+60.4 D+6.1 2,576 2,462
Dixon County R+36.3 R+30.0 D+6.3 2,792 2,794
Butler County R+42.0 R+35.6 D+6.4 3,828 3,839
Sherman County R+29.8 R+23.2 D+6.6 1,705 1,572
Cheyenne County R+56.4 R+49.6 D+6.8 4,186 4,839
Fillmore County R+39.2 R+32.3 D+6.9 2,998 2,947
Keith County R+56.5 R+49.6 D+6.9 3,849 3,968
Nemaha County R+33.0 R+25.7 D+7.3 3,369 3,474
Hall County R+31.5 R+24.1 D+7.4 18,546 21,271
Hitchcock County R+55.0 R+47.5 D+7.5 1,480 1,379
Knox County R+43.9 R+36.1 D+7.8 3,978 4,084
Logan County R+67.0 R+59.1 D+7.9 412 416
Saunders County R+31.8 R+23.7 D+8.1 8,919 10,212
Cherry County R+65.9 R+57.5 D+8.4 2,847 3,059
Perkins County R+63.9 R+55.1 D+8.8 1,452 1,420
Johnson County R+19.7 R+10.8 D+8.9 2,112 2,110
Thayer County R+42.4 R+33.5 D+8.9 3,006 2,659
Adams County R+36.0 R+27.0 D+9.0 12,438 13,210
Richardson County R+29.9 R+20.9 D+9.0 4,150 3,968
Arthur County R+76.8 R+67.7 D+9.1 272 263
Holt County R+62.6 R+53.4 D+9.2 4,959 4,974
Brown County R+66.9 R+57.3 D+9.6 1,684 1,567
Saline County flipped R+5.1 D+4.5 D+9.6 5,145 5,251
Burt County R+24.5 R+14.6 D+9.9 3,392 3,387
Jefferson County R+25.7 R+15.8 D+9.9 3,847 3,697
Kearney County R+52.9 R+42.8 D+10.1 3,122 3,150
Box Butte County R+31.3 R+21.0 D+10.3 5,089 4,979
Boone County R+56.6 R+45.8 D+10.8 2,862 2,836
Greeley County R+32.2 R+21.4 D+10.8 1,310 1,199
Washington County R+37.2 R+26.3 D+10.9 8,626 10,320
Buffalo County R+48.6 R+37.5 D+11.1 16,461 19,293
Stanton County R+56.1 R+44.8 D+11.3 2,486 2,495
Pierce County R+61.2 R+49.6 D+11.6 3,208 3,226
Dawson County R+50.2 R+38.4 D+11.8 7,507 7,986
Gage County R+21.3 R+9.5 D+11.8 9,506 10,160
Keya Paha County R+67.1 R+55.1 D+12.0 513 533
Wayne County R+45.0 R+32.9 D+12.1 3,940 3,808
Thurston County flipped R+5.6 D+7.0 D+12.6 2,082 2,126
Frontier County R+61.6 R+48.7 D+12.9 1,393 1,404
Garden County R+62.3 R+49.3 D+13.0 1,219 1,138
Otoe County R+29.6 R+15.8 D+13.8 6,662 7,092
Madison County R+53.4 R+39.2 D+14.2 12,853 14,045
Dodge County R+26.6 R+12.0 D+14.6 14,472 15,550
Platte County R+56.4 R+41.5 D+14.9 12,859 13,420
Lancaster County flipped R+10.1 D+5.0 D+15.1 107,132 127,490
Sarpy County R+31.7 R+15.9 D+15.8 45,278 68,022
Colfax County R+44.5 R+27.9 D+16.6 3,315 3,203
Dawes County R+47.7 R+28.9 D+18.8 3,621 3,775
Douglas County flipped R+15.2 D+4.6 D+19.8 183,156 226,701
Cuming County R+56.4 R+35.6 D+20.8 4,215 4,087

Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data